Asian Coalition for Housing Rights visits Mongolia's urban poor
Asian Coalition on Housing Rights, a SEACA member visited the urban poor of Mongolia last 16 June 2005. The Mongolia visit was made in coordination with UNESCAP which has initiated a housing and infrastructure support programme in Ulaanbaatar. What is written below is from what I have learnt by attending the National Dialogue on Housing the Poor in Urban Economies, a site visit to government built housing barracks, a visit to a "ger" settlements in Ulaanbaatar, and discussions with government and NGO representatives and residents of the barracks and the ‘ger’ housing communities. There are strong similarities between conditions in Ulaanbaatar and Almaty in Kazakhstan where I have worked with local communities and NGOs.
Date: July 22, 2005   02:52:30pm

Asian Civil Society Forum 2004: Building UN/NGOs Partnerships for Democratic Governance through MDGs
The proposed ACSF 2004 is a main follow-up to the ACSF 2002 and at the same time a regional preparatory process and forum for the "NGO Forum for Millennium+5" in 2005. It also serves as a main follow-up meeting to the Asian NGOs’ consultation meeting on UN-civil society relations (Bangkok, Oct. 22-23, 2003) by UN High-level Panel on UN-Civil Society Relations.
Date: July 21, 2005   12:31:44pm

The Asia-Pacific seminar-workshop on “Developing Strategies to Monitor and Advance Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights” (October 22-26,2001, Davao City , Phillipines)
The end result of globalization has increased gap between the rich and poor countries as well as between the rich and the poor in both rich and poor countries. Unlike as propagated by global media, the lives of the poor, workers, women, children and marginalized people are deteriorating in various aspects of life as well as the environments.
Date: June 21, 2004   10:56:49am

Community Building Training Workshop (Summary Report)
The Community Building (Community Organizing) Training Workshop was designed and facilitated by the Catholic Relief Services and AsiaDHRRA with the support of the Diocese, particularly of the Bishop, for the priests, religious sisters and lay leaders of the Diocese. It was intended to be a follow-through to the Trainers’ Training on Mobilizing Resources for Community Development, which was facilitated by Amy Romero of CRS and Dulce Carandang of AsiaDHRRA in September 21-25, 2001.
Date: June 18, 2004   03:39:22pm

Resource Mobilization from Local Institutions
Cambodia is by and large rich in resources that can be harnessed for the benefit of the people. These resources are however under the stewardship of various institutions and could only be channelled for community development by building good will and relationships between the community and these institutions.
Date: June 18, 2004   12:23:08pm

Participatory Planning Approaches For Social Change
The Regional “Human Resources Development Training Programme” of Asian Cultural Forum on Development was conducted in Sri Lanka from 12th to 24th January 2001 in collaboration with Asian Cultural forum on Development – Lanka and National Development Foundation. Under this programme, 12 activists were trained.
Date: March 26, 2004   04:55:32pm

Southeast Asian Region Situationer
SEAsian countries share in the experience of a colonial past, with the following features: the introduction of the money economy; the building of infrastructure to support such an economy; a transformed social fabric and racial composition; the rise of nationalism and popular movements.
Date: March 15, 2004   03:45:51pm