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Our Mission
To fight urban
poverty with passion and professionalism, sharing knowledge
and learning among ourselves and others for results.
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How
We Are Organized Founded in 1998,
with an evolving, collective leadership of anchor and regional
staff, a hard core with external members, and a community of
practice of 150. |
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How
We are Funded
Staff time and some
budget from anchor and regions, and ½ knowledge assistant
from the anchor, our own time, trust funds and grants.
How
We Work
With other Thematic Groups, sectors, networks
and external partners; doing research and practical common tasks; guaranteeing
continuity of state of the art practice and knowledge.
Thematic Group
Links to Corporate Objectives:
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Millenium
Development Goals: Poverty reduction and environmental sustainability;
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Achieve by 2020 a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers;
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Cross-Sector Integration: land use, housing, utilities, recreation,
Local Economic Development, crime prevention and human development.
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Thematic Group Accomplishments:
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Regional upgrading workshops in
Africa, Latin America, and South East Asia.
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Study tours of upgrading practices in
Latin America and South East Asia.
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Inter-institutional video-conference on scaling up.
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External partners’ conference on
Wiring the Barrio.
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Municipal capacity building workshops in Central America.
Thematic Group Knowledge Products:
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Development of Upgrading Toolkit and Manuals.
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Collections of case studies and good practices.
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Building upgrading databases.
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Tacit Knowledge Downloads.
Dissemination of Knowledge and Training:
Ayuda Urbana.
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Publications of
Urban Notes, Manuals and Portfolio series.
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Urban Upgrading Newsletter.
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External presentations,
Brown Bag Lunches (BBLs), clinics and workshops.
Advisory Services:
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Pre
Project Concept Document (PCD) reviews.
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Total quality assistance.
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One on one consultations.
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