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