Restoring Communities through Home-Owner-Driven Reconstruction from Post-Emergency to Development

Registration and Contact

Please send an e-mail to conference@unhabitat.lk expressing your interest to participate in the conference and we will send you further details on registering. For further information please contact the Conference Coordinator for Conference on Restoring Communities through ‘Home-Owner-Driven’ Reconstruction: from post-Emergency to Development via: Phone:  +94 11 2055310 Email: conference@unhabitat.lk Conference partners ...

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Speakers

Speakers will be drawn from internationally-renowned experts; academics;  national stakeholders; Implementing Agencies; donors; community members from project locations Speakers’ profiles are featured below: Mr. Anurag Srivasta Director (Finance), Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India After obtaining degrees in engineering and business management, and following a brief stint in the corporate sector, Mr. Anurag Srivastava ...

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Conference Programme

The Keynote speakers will give an overview of the international trends with regard to participatory processes in post-disaster housing rebuilding. The session will draw on examples from across the globe and stimulate a discussion about the home owner driven process, post-climate and post-conflict disasters, donors views on post-emergency reconstruction in Sri Lanka, and generally set ...

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Call for abstracts for papers, oral and poster presentations

The deadline for abstract submissions is now closed. Abstracts / Posters All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI): Owner Driven Reconstruction: Where Women are Leaders Basin-South Asia: Owner based processes for making development policies more responsive to housing vulnerabilities of the rural poor – efforts of civil society collectives in India Centre for Poverty Analysis, K. ...

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Conference Themes

1. Home Owner Driven Reconstruction and the People’s Process in practice The following aspects will be dealt with here: the People’s Process and participatory approaches, inclusion and gender concerns in reconstruction, cultural specificities, land issues and the landless, finances, community infrastructure through community contracts, perspectives of women, youth, village committees. 2. Ensuring integration and enabling ...

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About the Conference

The conference ‘Restoring Communities through ‘Home-Owner-Driven’ Reconstruction: from post-Emergency to Development’ intends to provide a platform for examining practices and lessons learned in the restoration of communities affected by disaster and conflict internationally. The conference will address both technical aspects of reconstruction as well as the underlying “People’s Process”. Focus will be placed on the ...

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