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> FOCUS ON: World Habitat Day
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> October 3rd is World Habitat Day - an opportunity to reflect on the
> state of human settlements and the right to adequate shelter. This year
> the focus is on the millennium development goals and the city, in
> particular, improving the lives of 100 million slum dwellers by 2020 and
> halving the number of people without sustainable access to safe drinking
> water. 
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> * Upgrading slums and preventing new ones: lessons from Cambodia
> * Community initiatives: slum dwellers can do it for themselves
> * Cities without slums: knowledge-sharing urgently needed 
> * Is the water and sanitation MDG achievable?
> * Communities can create their own water supply and sanitation
> 
> OTHER NEWS: New:  'id21 insights #57', 'People and protected areas: new
> agendas for conservation' * International Platform on Sustainable Urban
> Development * Nanning International Conference on Sustainable Urban
> Development * 5th Conference on Energy Conservation in Building
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> Upgrading slums and preventing new ones: lessons from Cambodia
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> Some Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) may be overambitious but this
> is not the case with target 11 of MDG 7 - to improve the living
> conditions of 100 million slum dwellers by 2020. With the number of slum
> dwellers expected to double to nearly two billion by 2030, it is
> essential to vastly exceed this modest target.
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> Community initiatives: slum dwellers can do it for themselves
> 
> When slum dwellers and their organisations work with their government
> and external agencies to 'significantly improve their lives' (Millennium
> Development Goal target 11) they often succeed where governments on
> their own fail. Many of the solutions are cost-effective, sustainable
> and have reached hundreds of thousands of slum dwellers.
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> Cities without slums: knowledge-sharing urgently needed 
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> The number of people living in slums is set to double from 924 million
> by 2030. Improving the living conditions of slum dwellers and preventing
> new slums from emerging are daunting challenges. Success will largely
> depend on stimulating informal slum improvement and helping to develop
> knowledge-sharing networks.
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> Is the water and sanitation MDG achievable?
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> The seventh Millennium Development Goal (MDGs) commits the international
> community to halving, by 2015, the proportion of people without
> sustainable access to safe drinking water. The baseline set for most of
> the MDG targets, including that on water and sanitation, is 1990. As
> 2002 is the last year for which comprehensive data is available it can
> be considered the halfway mark towards achieving the 2015 MDG deadline.
> Based on 2002 data, is the world on course for achieving this goal?
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> Communities can create their own water supply and sanitation
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> Urban communities in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Angola are creating
> - and funding - their own water supply and sanitation services.
> Partnered with local governments they are covering large areas at much
> lower costs than conventional projects. To meet the Millennium target of
> sustainable access to safe drinking water, international agencies need
> to learn how to support such innovations.
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> International Platform on Sustainable Urban Development
> 11-13 October 2005 Geneva Palexpo, Switzerland. S-dev Geneva 05:
> Innovating cities across the world
> http://www.s-dev.org/en/decouvrir/geneva05/index.php
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> Nanning International Conference on Sustainable Urban Development
> 9-11 November 2005, Nanning, China. From research to action - an event
> of the European Union and UN-HABITAT research initiative in support of
> sustainable human settlements.
> http://www.iclei-europe.org/index.php?id=1706
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> 5th Conference on Energy Conservation in Building
> 26-28 April 2006, Tehran, Iran. The deadline for abstracts/proposals is
> 15 November 2005.
> http://5bc.ifco.ir/ 
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