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what we do and how? |
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urban focus |
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Hazards Centre facilitates alternative frameworks on issues of urban policy, planning and practice, such as land and housing, health, sanitation, transport, water, electricity, environment, health, education, governance and livelihoods. We seek to challenge the dominant judicial and administrative forces aimed at making the city an exclusive ‘world-class’, ‘clean' space.
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Through Research activities, we take up issues of concern to communities and organisations, and explore the potential methodology to be followed by community leaders and activists to understand these issues and, thereby, find solutions.
Trainings, done through workshops and on-site laboratories forms an important component of being able to pass on requisite research and learning skills to the community.
Wide-ranging Consultations are regularly organized through symposia, conferences, and meetings with policy-makers, administrators, service providers, voluntary agencies, professional bodies, educational institutions, and mass organizations, to establish and lobby for new directions for policies and programmes of relevance to the working poor.
Documentation and Publication provides the backbone to the entire process by periodically bringing out simple literature, mainly in the vernacular, in the form of reports, booklets, books, pamphlets, presentations, manuals, photographs, posters and films. It essentially means recording of all such development processes that are increasingly marginalizing the poor, as also the strategies of resistance that are being formulated.. For more information see research documentation publication and list of publications.
Technical support is provided to organizations and community groups to strengthen their monitoring and critical capacities and enable them to steer their own advocacy processes through executive, judicial, legislative, and scientific bodies, as well as to propose alternatives to existing development projects which are likely to marginalize them further.
By providing consultancy inputs to a large number of organizations in Delhi, the Centre has also been able to encourage the formation of Alliances, engaged on a range of issues. |
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Hazards Centre dimension gains access to communities through organizations based there, and helps them variously to:
- Research and Document on a range of community issues such as health conditions, water issues, transport issues etc
- Provide technical support and upgrade community skills through trainings such as water quality monitoring, electricity consumption calculation, land measurement and map reading, usage of Right to information, occupational safety etc.
- Inform them of the dominant policy regime and how it affects their lives
- In participant consultation, formulate alternative policy perspectives on development issues
- Supporting community initiatives to take up local problem-solving
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- Research and analysis on government policies on all development issues from a perspective of community needs and problems, with special emphasis on the Master Plans or Development Plans of the region.
- Inform the policy makers of community issues
- Advocate for alternate policies, principles, norms and techniques of urban and rural planning through processes of alliances, public debates, consultations with government bodies, publication and dissemination of pamphlets, research reports, booklets, protests etc.
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Along with other organisations, we have facilitated the formation of alliances with a range of groups on specific themes. These include:
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- Sajha Manch – An alliance built around urban groups questioning the direction of growth of the city
- Committee for Campaign for Preservation of Democracy – A group looking at rights issues of ethnic minorities in India
- Delhi Suraksha Samiti– A group looking at industrial pollution and waste management issues
- Local Area Environment Committee – A technical group set up by the Supreme Court Monitoring Committee to supervise the implementation of the Hazardous Waste Management Rules in Delhi
- Jan Swasthya Abhiyan – A group exploring the possibility of a people-friendly health policy
- WTO Virodhi Abhiyan – A campaign against the anti-people provisions of the conditions imposed by the World trade Organisation and the Indian government’s complicity in agreeing to these conditionalities
- Kashmir Earthquake Relief and Rehabilitation Committee – A coordinating group set up to set up an integrated disaster management programme after the Kashmir earthquake
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