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The United Nations has designated the first Monday of October every year as World Habitat Day. The idea is to reflect on the state of our towns and cities and the basic right of all, to adequate shelter. It is also intended to remind the world of its collective responsibility for the future of the human habitat.The United Nations chose the theme Better City, Better Life to highlight our collective vision of a sustainable urban world that harnesses the potential and possibilities, mitigates inequalities and disparities, and provides a home for people of all cultures and ages, both rich and poor. From the first of January 2011 Cordaid/Slum Dwellers Program and the Urban Matters project will be integrated into one approach: multi-stakeholder multilevel integrated neighborhood app...
As of today, all Cordaid websites (5 fundraising sites and one corporate site) have been renewed and are online. Corporate: www.cordaid.nlThe corporate site is primarily a knowledge site. Everything a person would like to know about about development cooperation in general and about Cordaid ( and its projects, partners, reports, background, and more) can be found on this website.
The kick-off of the Urban Challenge 2010 will take place on September 16th. ContextWithin the Urban Matters project, Cordaid set the following goal for the target group of students at schools/universities: Raising awareness amongst Dutch students about urban issues in developing countries and the role of Cordaid and its partner organisations in improving the life of people living in urban slums. Also students from Dutch schools/universities will contribute to Cordaid Urban Matters project by contributing their knowledge and technical assistance. As a result, students will have more knowledge of, understanding of and solidarity with urban issues in developing countries. Target groupThe target group of the Urban Challenge consists of students at universities and/or hogescholen ...
by Elli XenouCordaid Field Office PakistanAugust 20th, 2010 Cordaid Pakistan Field OfficeCordaid was active in Pakistan as early as 2003 and was re-deployed in the country responding to the devastating earthquake of October 2005. Following the catastrophe, Cordaid implemented an extended emergency response and rehabilitation programs in NWFP and AJK focussing on:• Shelter• School reconstruction• Education promotion• Hygiene education in schools Present Intervention Khyber Pahtunkha (KP) DistrictAs early as August 2009, when a first wave of displacement took place from Bajaur towards Malakand and Peshawar, Cordaid decided to provide humanitarian assistance in the form of a new emergency health intervention i.e. the operation of Medical Mobile Units (MMUs). However, due to extr...
IFRC This document contains regional La Niña updates, followed by background information and forecast monitoring guidance and resources. Read more: Read more about Cordaid and Climate Change adaptation in the group: www.cordaidpartners.... To react, click on 'go to wave'.
HBC for People Living with HIV (PLHIV) or affected by HIV is a global concern. This was reflected in the more than 200 submissions from over 30 countries that Cordaid received for her HIV and AIDS Award on HBC Leadership. To find out more about the impact and challenges of HBC and to find out what you can do to empower volunteer caregivers and increase HBC visbility: - Watch "Care for Care! Trends Analysis on Home based Care - 2009 Cordaid HIV and Aids Award". View the video here (6 min):- Read "Trends on HBC NB: Should you want to receive any hard copies of the video or Trends Analysis documents please email nll@cordaid.nl Background:The main HBC trends identified are based on the highest scoring submissions received. Award recipients were The National Community of Women l...
From the 25th of October until the 5th of November a CMDRR training of IIRR will take place in Uganda. In this course, you will learn:• To apply the philosophy, concepts and principles of community managed disaster risk reduction;• To analyze various disaster risk reduction frameworks and models with special focus on common hazards in the horn of Africa;• To identify and analyze different types of hazards and examine community managed approaches to reduce disaster risks;• Facilitate the process of participatory risk analysis and assess the impact of major hazards like drought, floods, disease epidemics, conflict, HIV/AIDS and other common hazards;• Apply the community planning process in the context of disaster risk reduction efforts and adapt participatory tools for doing so;...
Nominate yourselve or others! The 2010 edition of the Cordaid "HIV and AIDS Award" rewards Sexual and Reproductive Health for women living with HIV with two prizes of 10,000 Euro each. All the related documents: the official Announcement, Rules and Procedures and the Nomination Form can be found under www.cordaidpartners.... Deadlines for nominations is 15 September 2010. Find out more about the 2009 Award on Home based Care Leadership under www.cordaidpartners.... Find out more about the 2008 Award on Faith based Leadership under www.cordaidpartners....
To get an impression of the CAN Zone view the pictures:www.cordaidpartners.... Cameroon - André Zra: CDD Maroua (FRENCH)www.cordaidpartners.... DRC - Stéphane Bikoro: Cordaid BAS (FRENCH)www.cordaidpartners.... DRC - André Sukadi: RENOUACwww.cordaidpartners.... Ethiopia - Tewabech Tesfalegn: Medan Actwww.cordaidpartners.... Ethiopia – Mahadere Tedla Getachew, ECSwww.cordaidpartners.... Indonesia - I Made Linggawijaya, Primariwww.cordaidpartners.... Malawi - Daphne Gondwé,: COHLWAwww.cordaidpartners.... Malawi - Matilda Mkunthi Maluza: ECMwww.cordaidpartners.... Sierra Leone - Mohamed Lamin Mansaray: Carem SLwww.cordaidpartners.... Uganda - Agnes Atim: NACWOLAwww.cordaidpartners.... Zambia - Marijke Zimba: IPPHZwww.cordaidpartners....
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, Raquel Rolnick, launches a new website to increase and encourage public participation within the domain of adequate housing. Adequate housing was recognized as a human right in 1948, upon the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is a universal right, accepted and applicable throughout the world as a fundamental human right. From the UN Special Rapporteur: on the website you will find reports and other documents prepared by the Rapporteur, as well as news on the topic. With this tool, we hope to facilitate access to information concerning the Rapporteur's work, create a space of reference on the subject and a channel for direct communication with the public. For that purpose, we expect to receive c...
says that making the indicators operational will require a pilot phase to develop a baseline data collection method." And on and on it goes, while women die, are maimed or psychologically wounded, perhaps for life. Chances are probably not good that Ban will name a firebrand as undersecretary-general for UN Women. At the USIP event, Chowdhury shared the stage with Melanne Verveer, the pro-active ambassador-at-large for global women's issues in the Obama administration, who also echoed the "let's stop stalling" theme. "Although the importance of women's participation in conflict resolution, peace building, and post-conflict reconstruction is irrefutable, and although it's been ten years since the Security Council, in adopting 1325, unanimously acknowledged the intrinsic role of...
IntroductionThe dilemma that faces the conference-goer at IAC is which session to attend given the vast choices that are offered. At times, there are 3 interesting sessions running simultaneously and another two events being conducted in the Global Village and the temptation to clone oneself is very real. A little bit about the place. Vienna is a historical city and was the seat of the Austrian Empire ruled by the Habsburg monarchy in the 19th century. The empire was a successor to the Holy Roman Empire (that was once described as being neither holy nor Roman nor an empire). This city hums with typical Viennese efficiency, the trains and trams run on time, the subways and streets are clean and there are cultural events everywhere. Thus far, the conference has run without a hit...
Cordaidpartners.com is the portal that is created for Cordaid's partners. It contains several thematic rooms, in which Cordaid and its partners can share discussions, documents, news, videos, photos, updates about ongoing projects, reviews, relevant links, and more. It offers an opportunity for the members of an existing network of partners to share and exchange knowledge and information. For the overall portal go to www.cordaidpartners.comThe Urban Matters project has created a general 'Urban Matters' room, in which all people, parties and stakeholders involved in the project are invited. In this room general updates from the project from within Cordaid, but also summaries on the latest updates from Kisumu, San Salvador and Cape Town (rooms) and relevant information on issues...
The International AIDS conference was held for XVIII round in Vienna, Austria. The main Motto of the conference was “Right Here, Right Now” and it was focused on the right to access both for prevention, care and support. Prevention, treatment and care are the three main pillars of the battle against the HIV/AIDS epidemic. While prevention and treatment are always at the centre of the discussion, the concerns related to care and support are often left behind. So, during the conference discussions were made to address the right to access for care and support for people affected and infected with HIV/AIDS. To advocate about care and support program especially on caregivers issue four agencies namely Help Age International, Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO), Cord Aid and Huairou ...
As a member of the Cordaid to the XVIII International Aids Conference that took place in Vienna, Austria from 19 to 23 July 2010, I would like to share my experience as follows: The opening, which took place on the evening of 18 July, was very good as it rightly set the agenda of what was to come in the preceding days. The theme Rights Here, Right Now was adequately captured in all the opening speeches which were made by people of various backgrounds and ranks from the UN Secretary General to youth group representatives. My best opening speech was from the youth representative who called upon the society to change its views towards the youth by regarding them as leaders of today not only tomorrow as they have the potential to contribute to the response to HIV and AIDS. The pre...
The publication is titled “Escenarios de vida desde la exclusión urbana: una mirada al hábitat popular de 32 ciudades de El Salvador” (2009) or “Livelihood scenarios from the perspective of urban exclusion: a look into low-income habitat in 32 cities in El Salvador”. The study provides a rich and interesting, multidimensional look into the concepts of urban exclusion, urban poverty and low-income urban settlement in 32 cities countrywide. It offers important policy recommendations, a methodological approach to gather key urban information, and it gives access to an interactive alternative to view maps through Google maps, photographs and descriptions of vulnerable urban settlements. FUNDASAL is a strategic player in the area of urban development and social housing in El Salv...
An independent Canadian consultancy agency has scrutinized the impact of Montana’s Marlin Mine in San Marcos. The document provides a critical and in-depth analysis into the human rights situation around, and related to, the presence and operations of the Mine. It states that Montana’s compliance with Guatemalan legal norms is inadequate from an international human rights perspective, especially in a country like Guatemala, with weak governance and enforcement capacity. A key explanation is the adoption of the UN Declaration on the Right of Indigenous Peoples in 2007 which shows an evolution of standards of indigenous peoples rights, against which Montana’s performance is now more and more measured. It continues to argue that because the Marlin Mine is affecting the full spect...