The International Alliance of inhabitants is preparing, after the World Social Forum 2004, the following activities :
Zero Evictions! Specially the campaign Viva Nairobi Viva! In coordination with local associations. This campaign has been successful in blocking the eviction of some 354.000 inhabitants of the Nairobi slums.
Social production of habitat: This campaign wants to promote the defeat of public and social housing shortage, prioritising the use of territorial, social, cultural, ecological and productive variables. Thus, local governments has been requested to make concrete the city right, because if we do not propose the restoration of the built city, we shall not improve the life quality of the planet inhabitants.
Participative budget: specially the support to the demand of abolition of the external debt, in exchange of urban public policies and policies on lodgment.
The constitution of the Urban People’s University, aiming to train a new type of militant inhabitants, impregnated by grassroots’ networks while at the same time conscious of global challenges concerning the cities.
The organization of some workshops at the America’s Social Forum (Quito, July 25-30th, 2004) and the Urban World Forum (Barcelona, September 13-17th 2004), concerning all these issues
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Conceiving Tomorrow's City: What City Dwellers Say
Joël Audefroy (HIC )
- 01 October 2001
This document is a summary of the work accomplished by the World Conference of Inhabitants held in Mexico in October 2000.
Gouvernance urbaine et quartiers populaires : un défi mondial
Pierre Calame (FPH=Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer pour le Progrès de l'Homme)
- 01 October 2000
Why using the term governance instead of the expression public management? Because the management of towns and cities encompasses a variety of tasks: economic, social and political tasks, ranging from public to private, and from local to global.
The three feet of the pot (fascicle)
Téolinda Boliva , Pierre Calame (FPH), Françoise Feugas (FPH), Karine Goasmat (FPH), Teolinda BOLIVAR (UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA), Pierre CALAME (FONDATION CHARLES LEOPOLD MAYER POUR LE PROGRES DE L'HOMME), Françoise FEUGAS, Karine GOASMAT
- 01 February 2000
This document contains the guiding principles for a renewed local democracy and a partnership between the authorities and inhabitants/ city-dwellers.
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