NEWS FROM CEDBAN: JANUARY 2006
NEW DOSSIERS
This month we
are pleased to inform you about the four new monthly dossiers that we have on:
Slums
Child Rights
Textile Industry
Tribal issues
These are
collections of
clippings done on a monthly basis.
Other DPs are also available
on Legal Rights, Habitat,
Disasters
and Critical Concerns. For subscriptions and special offers, please contact jacintha@doccentre.net.
CED & RDCs
CED, in association with Architecture and Development (A
& D), Praxis & ISED is setting up RDCs, focusing on the rehabilitation and the
long-term development needs of communities in South India affected by the
tsunami.
We have launched a website www.rdc.net.in
aiming at information dissemination among its partners, local organisations
and activists.
FILM & BACKGROUNDER
The film NAMMA
KADALKARAI, NAMMA URIMAI(Our Coast,
Our Right) was screened in
various parts of the
Tsunami affected areas. We have edited the film and the new
version includes the feedback of people and activists.
This
film is aimed to educate local communities, promote the right to information, people’s right to know, determine and participate in their own
development
particularly their re-development/rehabilitation.
NAMMA KADALKARAI, NAMMA URIMAI: This backgrounder, explains
the Coastal Regulation Zone and the economics and politics of
its implementation from the point of view of the Local Communities, is now available in Tamil and English.
For a copy please
email nalini@doccentre.net
or visit http://www.doccentre.net/docsweb/RDC-Tsunami/crz-bg-eng.html
for english & http://www.doccentre.net/docsweb/RDC-Tsunami/crz-bg-tamil.pdf
for tamil
DEVELOPMENT DIGEST
The latest issue
of
Development Digest (DD 12) is in the press. This issue looks at:
The Business of Hunger by Devinder Sharma
Water! Water!! Everywhere!!! But for Everyone?
Bhakra Dam - A Different
View, Siddharth Narrain
reviews Shripad Dharmadhikary's
Unravelling Bhakra: Assessing the Temple of Resurgent India
Managing Water, A Vaidyanathan
reviews Ramaswamy R Iyer's
Water: Perspectives, Issues, Concerns
Water Sector Reforms
in Mexico: Lessons
for India's
New Water Policy by
Tushaar Shah, Christopher Scott, Stephanie Buechler
Leapfrog Beyond 'Modern'
Water Paradigm by Sunita Narain
FILM AT CED
City Farming -
film on Urban Agriculture
Duration 16'47" - Produced by CED
City farming is an innovative
technology which deals with farming in urban areas and essentially on
terraces, balconies and even on the walls of civil
constructions. Dr.R T Doshi has perfected a method of growing
fruits and vegetables for domestic consumption, which involves
relatively low labour input, organic production methods and very high
yields.
For a copy, write to nalini@doccentre.net
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Diploma Course in Dalit
Studies
A new two year
diploma
course in Dalit Studies is being launched by Booshakthi
Kendra, in Tumkur.
The course aims at providing a learning space for young Dalit women and
men for
a limited period of two years. It is the aim of the Course that such
young women
and men will transform themselves into effective instruments in the
hands of
the Dalit people for their holistic liberation.
For more
information and to
apply write to jothiraj12@gmail.com
Deadline for Applications is 30 April 2006.
National
Conference on
Electoral Reforms
The Third National Conference on Electoral
Reforms to be held on
February 11,
12 (Saturday and Sunday) in Patna,
jointly hosted by the Association for Democratic Reforms ADR) and Lok
Samvad of Bihar.
The
Main Objectives of the Third Conference are to take the civil society
agenda on Electoral Reforms further and to go beyond electoral reforms
and set
the agenda for political party reforms. Please
contact: Prof. Trilochan Sastry (trilochans@IIMB.ERNET.IN)
BOOKS, REPORTS and FILMS
We have lots of
new books, reports
and films in the Bangalore
library this month:
Books
& Reports
- Reporting Disasters: Flood, Displacement and
Media Sensitivity by Nilanjan Dutta, MCRG, Calcutta
- Building bridges in PME : Guidelines for Good
Practice in the
Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation of Community-Based Development
Projects by Bram van Leeuwen
- Beyond Borders : Building a
Global Migrants Rights Movement in the Global Economy and Issues of
Labour Mobility in WTO Rounds, CEC, New Delhi
- Listening Now by Anjana
Appachana, WomenInk
- Nation, Civil Society and
Social Movements : Essays in Political Sociology by T.K.Oommen, SAGE
- Good Governance, Democratic
Societies And Globalisation by Surendra Munshi and others, SAGE
- Reconstructing the World:
B.R.Ambedkar and Buddhism in India ed. by Surendra Jondhale and
Johannes Beltz, OXFORD
Films
- Right
to Food by Right to Food Campaign
- Aftershocks:
The Rough Guide to Democracy by Rakesh
Sharma
- Closer
to reality by We for
Bhopal, students' Group
- Namma Kadalkarai, Namma Urimai (Our Coast, Our
Right), Tamil, produced by CED
- City farming, produced by CED
Critical Concerns
