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UPDATE: As of Dec. 16, 2009 all applicants should have received an email notification regarding the status of their submission. If you have not, please check your junk mail folder, or contact Chris Ward at cward[at]usaid.gov.
Examining “The Places We Live”: Slums & Urban Poverty in the Developing World
Call for Papers: Paper Competition / Policy Workshop / Online Publication
>> Win a trip to World Urban Forum 5 in Rio de Janeiro in March 2010
>> Be published in an online publication edited by The World Bank and other sponsors
>> Get invited to an interactive policy workshop with urban development practitioners in Washington, DC, in February 2010
>> Deadline Extended: Abstracts due by Nov. 30, 2009
Sponsored by USAID, the International Housing Coalition, The World Bank, the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Comparative Urban Studies Project, and Cities Alliance.
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The Places We Live Exhibit Comes to DC |
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 In late summer 2005, Magnum photographer Jonas Bendiksen moved into a small room in the middle of Kibera, Nairobi, to try to understand how daily life is lived in one of Africa’s largest slums. He was immediately struck by the residents’ awesome capacity to create normalcy and dignity out of extremely challenging living conditions.
His stay in Nairobi sparked a three-year project documenting households and families in Caracas, Mumbai, and Jakarta. Bendiksen attempted to challenge some of his own assumptions about urban poverty.
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Obama Administration to Host World Habitat Day 2009 |
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 The Obama Administration will co-host with UN-HABITAT the global celebrations of World Habitat Day in Washington, D.C. on 5 October 2009.
Cabinet Secretary Shaun Donovan, who heads the US Department for Housing and Urban Development, confirmed the decision saying he welcomed the event as an opportunity to foster collaboration between the two agencies.
A group of 15 policy institutes, NGOs, and foundations will join the Department for Housing and Urban Development and UN-HABITAT in organizing a number of high-level events on the occasion of WHD 2009.
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