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Backgrounder in Tamil

Re-building Our Lives :
A Backgrounder on the Right to Work in the Context of Post Tsunami Reconstruction

Produced under :
Reconstruction for Development Centres (RDC):
A Collaborative information system for informed and participative reconstruction by
A&D, CED, Praxis, ISED and TNDTF funded by Foundation de France

Backgrounderes

1. Fishing in Troubled Waters: Increased fragility of an already precarious livelihood
2. Net-working Together : A Companion volume to the film on the livelihoods of the Coastal communities and their fight against the global market hegemony
3. Our Coast Our Right : Backgrounder on CRZ and Tsunami
4. LETS Make it happen : a CED Backgrounder on Alternative Economics
5. Changing the Stream : A Backgrounder on the Women's Movement in India
6. The Long and Winding Road :from Structural Change to Structural Transformation, A Backgrounder on NGOs and People's Movements
7. Background to Globalisation
8.What our Brightest Youngsters think : A selection of Projects done by students
9. Re-building Our Lives: A Backgrounder on the Right to Work in the Context of Post Tsunami Reconstruction

	What our Brightest Youngsters think ! In the Year 2006 A selection of Projects done by students
Re-building Our Lives : A Backgrounder on the Right to Work in the Context of Post Tsunami Reconstruction Produced under : Reconstruction for Development Centres (RDC): A Collaborative information system for informed and participative reconstruction by A&D, CED, Praxis, ISED and TNDTF funded by Foundation de France
English	Tamil	Fishing in Troubled Waters Increased fragility of an already precarious livelihood Developed around the adaption of an interview of John Kurien [professor, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala] This is a Docpost Special on the livelihood issues of the traditional fishing communities. It contains a collection of articles and reports which have been organised and pieced together with a narrative.
The document may appear to be disjointed at times. This is a characteristic of such an output, since it contains materials needed by activists and communities, but is not in the nature of an academic research.
Produced under : Reconstruction for Development Centres (RDC): A Collaborative information system for informed and participative reconstruction by A&D, CED, Praxis, ISED and TNDTF funded by Foundation de France

Net-working Together

A Companion volume to the film on the livelihoods of the Coastal communities and their fight against the global market hegemony

Produced under :
Reconstruction for Development Centres (RDC):
A Collaborative information system for informed and participative reconstruction by
A&D, CED, Praxis, ISED and TNDTF funded by Foundation de France

On Livelihood

On CRZ

[English],

[Tamil]

Our Coast Our Right
Backgrounder on CRZ and Tsunami

Government is the biggest violator

Coast is used as a free resource to increase private profit

Salient features of the M.S. Swaminathan Committee report

LETS Make it happen
a CED Backgrounder on Alternative Economics
by Rajni Bakshi
Price: Rs. 30/- Pages: 44 Paperback Print 2003

Lets make it happen, is a plea for creating collective economic institutions including community currency, development of local markets and bio-mass based industry. It is a backgrounder on Alternative economics for activists and social workers, which says, TAMA: There Are Many Alternatives, to mainstream Globalisation and to an economics which continuously marginalises the poor

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The Long and Winding Road
from Structural Change to Structural Transformation
A Backgrounder on NGOs and People's Movements
by Walter Mendoza and John D'Souza
Price: Rs. 250/- US $ 15 outside India Pages: 99 (Fulscap) Paperback Print 2002

This book is written to bring to the reader the background of the key issues that concern NGOs and point to readings and references available at CED. This book is a part of a personal journey, an exploration, of what NGOs have been attempting to do during the past three to four decades

Also avaiable in Hindi

Changing the Stream
A Backgrounder on the Women's Movement in India
by Shubha Chacko
Price: Rs. 190/- US $12 outside India Pages: 163 Paperback Print 2001

This publication outlines the nature and constituents of the Movement, as also its engagement with the State, with various institutions and its bid to influence and rewrite agendas. It captures the various strands that make up the women's movement and proceeds to look at where we are now before finally setting out some of the challenges facing us

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Background to Globalisation by Avinash Jha

English

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Hindi

Background to Globalisation
by Avinash Jha
Price: Rs. 150/- US $10 outside India Pages: 180 Paperback Print 2000 Reprint 2001

Globalisation has intensified the domination of societies by considerations of economy and state power. This book traces this trend from the beginnings of modern world and documents the emergence of the U.S.-led global system after the second world war. The most visible aspects of globalisation today are the explosion of the financial markets and the so-called information revolution

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Films

On Sustainable Environment
1. LANDSCAPE FOR RAINWATER
2. VERNACULAR VALUES
3. A FARM GARDEN IN A DRYLAND OF TAMIL NADU
4. CITY FARMING
5. BUILD SIMPLY

On livelihood
6. INAYAND SEYAL PEDUTTAL [Tamil]("Net-working" Together )

On CRZ
7. "NAMMA KADALKARAI - NAMMA URIMAL " [Tamil] (Our Coast-Our Right)

8. Veerabagupathy : A Community in Transition [English]

LANDSCAPE FOR RAINWATER Duration 26' - Produced by Anouchka Kine and A&D
video-stream	A huge and beautiful archaeological site in Hampi, Karnataka, shows aspects of Indian cities in late 15th early 16th centuries, It shows ruins of tanks, water channels and aqueduct show how Indian people succeeded in using a passive and complex system so that rainwater was sufficient for all their water needs.

VERNACULAR VALUES

Duration 58'18" - Produced by CED

Threading the cross section journeys into the other paradigm in architecture and examines the values and underlying commonsense of the vernacular in shaping our built environment. In this film the philosopher in R L Kumar, a trained accountant reflects on his attempts to build houses differently with a passion for the earth and the people he is working with. This exploration has made kumar an architect, builder, comrade to his workers and philosopher to some of his NGO friends and chief haranguer to others.

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A FARM GARDEN IN A DRYLAND OF TAMIL NADU Duration 8'30" - Produced by Anouchka Kine and A&D
video-stream	A landscape architect, Mohan S. Rao, explains using the example of a farm garden how to conserve and reuse rainwater as much as possible with sensitive and sustainable methods. The basic principles of this kind of work are explained in a simple way and in a quiet rhythm.

CITY FARMING Duration 16'47" - Produced by CED
Nature is vanishing at a very fast pace from cities. This film captures this process of Dr. R.T. Doshi science of city farming.	video-stream

BUILD SIMPLY
Duration 37 minutes [English]

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A film on the approach to ‘built environment’ adopted by Timbaktu

The film explores Timbaktu’s experiment, which sat a meeting point between forests, agriculture and the built environment. It narrates how a small group of development activists, committed to developmental and ecological regeneration, found ways to heal and regenerate a piece of dry, degraded land, and create an agro forest habitat. Protecting the land, revitalising natural resources and traditional genetic base were the key elements involved.

"NAMMA KADALKARAI - NAMMA URIMAL "(Our Coast-Our Right) Duration [ Tamil, 54 mins, PAL VCD Colour]
A film explaining the Coastal Regulation Zone, and the Economics and Politics of its Implementation from the point of view of Local Community Rights.	video-stream

INAYAND SEYAL PEDUTTAL ("Net-working" Together )
Duration [TAMIL, 38 mins 7 secs, PAL-VCD-Colour]

video stream

This film tries to address few such concerns related to reconstruction of livelihoods of the coastal communities post-tsunami. It covers a gamut of issues varying from alternative employment, educating the coastal communities to the global market hegemony and modernization of traditional fishing. How to make the local economy self-sustainable and how to ensure its continual growth? How can the NGOs and the local people take up this mammoth task of keeping the traditional economy alive and growing? "Net-working" Together talks about these and many more issues..

Veerabagupathy : A Community in Transition
Duration[English, 28 minutes]

A film showcases tsunami affected Veerabagupathy village in Kanyakumari District.

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Shanthi…Century Not Out
Duration [Tamil, 33 mins 13 secs]

Video Stream

A film on a striking example of community awareness efforts by Shanti, which led to the construction of 200 Ecosan toilets in a tsunami affected village in South India.

In one rare case of tsunami-affected Kameshwaram village, in Nagapattinam district, the experiment with toilets has been immensely successful due to one woman's initiative. In spite of being a tsunami victim, Shanti was not bogged down by her circumstances. Instead she chose to start a revolution of sorts. She constructed the first ever Ecosan toilet in her house. Thanks to her efforts, now there are about 200 Ecosan toilets in the village, the highest in the entire Nagapattinam district. The film showcases how the construction of Ecosan toilets has changed the lives of many villagers and how it has also strengthened the process of Shanti's empowerment.

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Interviews with Experts

On CRZ and Fishermen:
T Mohan, Advocate

Interviewed in Chennai on August 30, 2005 by Priya C Nair and Shruti Kulkarni, Tamil

On CRZ and Fishermen's Struggle:
Jesu Rathinam, SNEHA.

Interviewed in Chennai on August 30, 2005 by Priya C Nair and Shruti Kulkarni. In English and Tamil.

Livelihood restoration after tsunami and the market economy:
An interview with V Vivekanandan, (SIFFS)

Interviewed by Priya C Nair and Shruti Kulkarni in Thiruvananthapuram, 27 April 2006

Fishermen - Soldiers of the Coast:
Vincent Benedict, Secretary , KSMTF, Kerala, English

Interviewed in Bangalore by Priya C Nair and Shruti Kulkarni on August 19, 2005.

Livelihood restoration of the fishing community after tsunami :
An interview with Fr. Thomas Kocherry

Interviewed by Priya C Nair and Shruti Kulkarni in Thiruvananthapuram, 27 April 2006

Interview with Dr R T Doshi who experimented with an innovative package of workable farming practices that enables city dwellers to grow their own food on every available square inch of urban space, including terraces and balconies.

Bablu’s tryst with destiny: In the interview Bablu Ganguly, founder of Timbaktu Collective relates a story about Timbaktu’s bold experiment.

Interview with R L Kumar, a philosopher, an architect with passion for the earth, who reflects on his attempt to build houses differently.

Interview on Sustainable Built Environment with Chandrashekar Hariharan

A Talk by Sandeep Virmani on Disaster Rehabilitation, Giving Direction to Sustainable Development

An interview with K C Leong on The Essence of Asset Management

Thomas H Greco Jr on Community Economy Development

Prof. Jeffery Sachs :

(Director, UN Millennium Project and Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan
on the Millennium Development Goals)

on “India can play an important role in holding the world together”

- Henri Tiphagne, Executive Director,People's Watch, Tamilnadu

on "The Hit and the Affected : Social rights of the tsunami victims"

A talk by Kenneth Kruckemeyer

on "Growth & Change in Boston & Bangalore- Finding a place for Public Transportation"

Interview with Shanthi
(Owner of the first Ecosan toilet)

Interview with M Subburaman, Director, SCOPE on " Ecosan toilet"

Interview with D.M.Chitrashekar
Area Officer, SVARAJ (Society for Voluntary Action Revitalization and Justice), Bangalore, Karnataka

on http://el.doccentre.info/website/RDC/RDC-interviews/Interview-with-Chitrashekar.html"> " Rainwater Harvesting"

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