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PRESENTATION OF THE WORLD HABITAT AWARDS WORLD HABITAT DAY 2011 AGUASCALIENTES, MEXICO

Mr Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General, United Nations 1 PRESENTATION OF THE WORLD HABITAT AWARDS WORLD HABITAT DAY 2011 AGUASCALIENTES, MEXICO

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The 2011 World Habitat Awards for innovative Contents and sustainable housing solutions were presented at the global celebration of World 06 A World Habitat Day Message Habitat Day in Aguascalientes, Mexico, on Mr Ban-Ki Moon, Secretary-General, United Nations Monday 3rd 2011.

08 and Climate Change World Habitat Day is organised each year on Dr Joan Clos, Executive Director, UN-HABITAT the first Monday of October by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN- 10 The World Habitat Awards HABITAT), providing a unique opportunity to Mrs Diane Diacon, Director, Building and Social Housing Foundation focus attention on the importance of shelter in people’s lives and the world’s collective 14 World Habitat Award 2011 Winning Projects responsibility for the future of the human Housing for Health, Australia habitat. Community Programme for Neighbourhood Improvement, Mexico

Mr Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General, This year’s global celebration was hosted by the 22 2011 Habitat Scroll of Honour Awards United Nations GovernmentMr Ban Ki-Moon, of Mexico Secretary-General, in collaboration with UN-HABITAT.United Nations Further celebrations took place 24 World Habitat Award 2011 Finalists across the world.

28 Sources of Further Information The theme for 2011 was ‘Cities and Climate Change’, chosen by UN-HABITAT because 29 World Habitat Awards: An Invitation to Enter climate change is fast becoming the preeminent development challenge of the 21st century. As UN-Habitat has emphasised, no-one today can really foresee the predicament in which a or will find itself in 10, 20 or 30 years time. In this new urban era with most of humanity now living in and cities, we must bear in mind that the greatest impacts of disasters resulting from climate change begin and end in cities. Cities too have a great influence on climate change.

4 THE WORLD HABITAT AWARDS Mr Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General, United Nations 5 .This year, World Habitat Day falls during the month when demographers predict Aguascalientes, host of the global celebration of our planet’s seven billionth inhabitant will be born. The future that this child and its World Habitat Day On this observance of generation will inherit depends to a great degree on how we handle the competing World Habitat Day, pressures of growing population growth, and climate change. Mr Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General, let us reaffirm our Experts predict that by the year 2050, the global contributing to green growth and improving United Nations commitment to the population will have increased by 50 per cent environmental protection. from what it was in 1999. Also by that time, important journey to a scientists say, global greenhouse gas emissions Local efforts are critical to success, but they more sustainable future, must decrease by 50 per cent compared to must be supported by international initiatives. levels at the turn of the millennium. I call this We have already seen progress, including the and let us focus greater the “50 – 50 – 50 challenge.” Rising sea levels creation of the Climate Change Adaptation attention on addressing are a major impact of climate change – and Fund and adoption of the action plan to climate change in an urgent concern. Sixty million people now Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and live within one meter of sea level. By the end forest Degradation, known as “REDD plus.” All the world’s cities and of the century, that number will jump to 130 countries agree on the goal of limiting global beyond. million. Major coastal cities – such as Cairo, New temperature rise to below 2 degrees Celsius. York, Karachi, Calcutta, Belem, New Orleans, Developed and developing countries have Mr Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary- General, United Nations , Tokyo, Lagos, Miami and Amsterdam committed to lower greenhouse gasses in a – could face serious threats from storm surges. formal, accountable international agreement. The nexus between urbanization and climate change is real and potentially deadly. Now we need to build on these advances. The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cities are centres of industrialization and Durban this December must achieve decisive sources of emissions, but they are also home progress. Urbanization will be on the agenda to solutions. More and more municipalities are at next year’s Rio+20 UN Conference on harnessing wind, solar and geothermal energy, Sustainable Development.

6 A WORLD HABITAT DAY MESSAGE Mr Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General, United Nations 7 world’s largest cities are located. And always it A Slum in Borneo, Malaysia We live in an age where the world’s population is the urban poor, especially slum dwellers, who will have grown to 7 billion by the end of this are most at risk when disaster strikes. We need to stress the provision of adequate adaptation month and where more than half of them measures based on urban planning. live in towns and cities. Projections indicate EvenMr Ban though Ki-Moon, we are Secretary-General, still trying to understand that this will increase to two-thirds in just over someUnited of Nationsthese extreme climatic events, we have the know-how and the strategies to a generation from now. How we manage take preventive measures. Urbanization offers this rapid urbanisation is one of the greatest many opportunities to develop mitigation and adaptation strategies to deal with climate change. challenges facing us. We must bear in mind that Given that most global energy consumption the greatest repercussions of climate disasters occurs in cities, roughly half of it from burning fossil fuels in cities for urban transport, the Dr Joan Clos both begin and end in cities. solution seems obvious. Executive Director, UN-HABITAT This is due to the fact that the economies of scale Each year on World Habitat Day, the first Prevention should be addressed through better produced by the concentration of economic Monday in October, we bring to the world’s urban planning and building codes so that city activities in cities also make it cheaper and attention a matter of great concern in our rapidly residents, especially the poorest, are protected easier to take action to minimize both emissions urbanizing world. This year we look at the impact as far as possible against disaster. Such measures and climate hazards. The social, economic and of cities in creating climate change, and, in turn, can also help to keep their ecological footprint to political actors within cities must therefore the impact of climate disruption on cities, and a minimum. Climate induced risks such as rising become key players in developing these what cities are doing about it. sea levels, tropical cyclones, heavy precipitation strategies. Many towns and cities, especially in events and extreme weather conditions can developing countries, are still grappling with According to UN-HABITAT’s Cities and Climate disrupt the basic fabric and functioning of cities climate change strategies, working out how to Change: Global Report on Human Settlements, with widespread reverberations for the physical access international climate change funding and it is estimated that by 2050, there could be as infrastructure, economy and society of cities. how to learn from pioneering cities. many as 200 million environmental refugees These include public health risks in urban areas. worldwide, many of whom will be forced We should reflect on this World Habitat Day on from their homes by rising sea levels and the We already know that the impacts of climate how we turn our cities – arguably the greatest increased frequency of flooding or drought. disruption will be particularly severe in low- achievements of human civilisation – into better elevation coastal zones where many of the cities for the future.

8 CITIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE Dr Joan Clos, Executive Director, UN-HABITAT 9 The annual World Habitat Awards competition was established in 1985 by the Building and Social Housing Foundation (BSHF) to identify innovative and sustainable housing solutions worldwide and is celebrating its 25th birthday this year. BSHF also works to ensure that the approaches developed in the winning projects are widely shared, by organising study visits, as well as publishing and disseminating a range of information.

The two winning projects this year both seek to These two programmes have made a real MrTrophy Ban Ki-Moon,designed bySecretary-General, Zoe Youngman and Kate Thorley and crafted by work with local communities in order to bring difference to the housing conditions of many United Nations about long-term improvement to their living thousands people and their work is being Andrew Macgowan. Photo by Dave Remes. conditions. increasingly replicated, as shown in the following pages. The Community Programme for Neighbourhood Improvement in is a community Lic. Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, President of initiated and driven neighbourhood improvement Mexico, and Dr Joan Clos, Under-Secretary- programme that uses a participatory approach General of the United Nations and Executive to improving public spaces and communal Director of UN-HABITAT, presented an award of infrastructures in informal settlements and low- £10,000 and a World Habitat Award trophy to income neighbourhoods. Funds are distributed each of the two winners. directly to the local communities, who are given full responsibility for delivering the projects The World Habitat Awards trophies are selected. predominantly crafted in solid silver and contain the symbol, in some form, of the International The Housing for Heath programme has Year of Shelter for the Homeless. This year’s contributed to improve the health of Indigenous sterling silver trophies have been designed by Mrs Diane Diacon, Director, Australians, by ensuring they have access to Zoe Youngman and Kate Thorley and crafted by Building and Social Housing Foundation safe and well functioning housing and an Andrew Macgowan. improved living environment. The programme is coordinated by Healthabitat and has reached 7,000 houses to date.

10 THE WORLD HABITAT AWARDS Mrs Diane Diacon, Director, Building and Social Housing Foundation 11 MrMr Paul Ban Pholeros, Ki-Moon, Director Secretary-General, of Healthabitat, Mr Alberto Martinez and representatives of the receivesUnited theNations World Habitat trophy from Dr. Joan Community Programme for Neighbourhood Clos, Under-Secretary General of the United Improvement with Mrs Diane Diacon, Director Nations and Executive Director of UN-HABITAT of BSHF, at the global celebration of World at the global celebration of World Habitat Day in Habitat Day in Aguascalientes, Mexico Aguascalientes, Mexico on behalf of Healthabitat. Trophy designed by Zoe Youngman and Kate Thorley and crafted by Andrew Macgowan.

Photo by Dave Remes

12 THE WORLD HABITAT AWARDS THE WORLD HABITAT AWARDS 13 Housing for Health Programme United StatesAustralia of America

Initiated in 1985 by Healthabitat, the Housing Many Indigenous Australians have low literacy waste water safely, improving nutrition with Community involvement Mr Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General, for Health (HfH) programme aims to improve rates as well as patterns of poor health. Life is the ability to store, preparing and cooking food United Nations the health of Indigenous people in Australia typically lived in harsh, remote and often chaotic and reducing the health impacts of dust. Such Nominations for inclusion in the Housing for by ensuring they have access to safe and conditions. Housing is usually provided by local practices have moreover been monitored and Health Programme come from communities well functioning housing and an improved or state governments or Indigenous community refined over the 25 past years, reinforcing the themselves, as well as Indigenous housing boards living environment. It uses a survey and fix organisations and is of poor quality with little, if link between health, housing function and the and Indigenous Affairs departments. After a methodology for testing whether the houses are any, maintenance or good management. broader living environment, feasibility study and if the communities wish to safe to live in and have functioning electrical and participate, a Survey-Fix week is set aside and a water supply systems. Health and housing Healthabitat furthermore developed the HfH number of local community members are trained methodology with standard repeatable tests to to work alongside technical staff to inspect, test There is a long history of abuse, mistreatment and Healthabitat uses housing as a strategic entry assess the safety and health function of housing. and record about 240 items in the houses, and misunderstanding of the Indigenous people of point in order to improve local Indigenous where possible make repairs. The information on Australia, not least when it comes to the provision communities’ health, working with the latter to It eventually initiated a broad range of applied, each house is entered onto a database and work of appropriate housing. Indigenous people live repair existing homes and providing them with practical research projects to improve housing, lists are given to qualified trades people who in very poor housing conditions and where the basic repair and maintenance skills. covering issues such as the development of carry out urgent repairs a day later. Other repairs state provides housing, it is not designed with any tap wares, hot water systems, waste disposal are completed over the following months and a understanding of the way of life or cultural needs In order to describe the functioning hardware systems, lighting, kitchen design, prefabricated second Survey-Fix session is carried out to review of these communities. The common view is that needed in a house to allow access to healthy transportable shower laundry and toilet the work. they ‘trash’ the good homes provided for them living, Healthabitat developed the Nine Healthy modules, local Indigenous staff training aids and and do not deserve decent housing provision. The Living Practices in the mid 1980s. These practices customised database and information systems. Local Indigenous communities are involved in all houses are often in disrepair and there are high include: life threatening safety issues, washing aspects of HfH projects such as in the planning levels of rent arrears. people, washing clothes and bedding, removing of projects, repair work, data work, management

14 WORLD HABITAT AWARD 2011 WINNING PROJECTS Housing for Health Programme, Australia 15 of the project, community liaison and training. including repair work, management, staff wages, nine Healthy Living Practices. Ongoing work is University courses have been offered in three Mr Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General, This has meant significantly better project results, building materials and transport. This is helped being carried out to ensure that implementation states to architecture, planning, nursing and United Nations better targeting of resources and the possibility of by the Healthabitat organisation itself having of the policy is delivered. Moreover, the health sciences students and their number is locally controlled ongoing housing maintenance very low overheads. Since 2006, approximately knowledge gained through the Housing for expected to increase. and management. This has further allowed local 15 per cent of the national HfH budget has been Health projects has been used to develop a community members to gain a variety of skills as allocated to research and development projects. national Indigenous housing design code that The National Partnership Agreement for Remote well as working experience, which can be used to respects cultural traditions and norms. Indigenous Housing has incorporated the safety find employment in the mainstream employment Impact and nine Healthy Living Practices in all the sectors. This has eventually fostered the creation Healthabitat’s work therefore contributes to national guideline documents. Healthabitat of small businesses within the communities as Over 180 HfH projects have improved more influence national Indigenous housing and health recognises that it will need to continue to work well as a greater sense of community cooperation. than 7,000 houses with poor functioning since policy as well as to encourage more holistic to ensure these guidelines are respected and 1999 and improved the living conditions of over thinking between government departments so implemented. Local people therefore are neither just seen as 40,000 Indigenous people. This represents one that housing and health are linked. ‘cheap local labour’ nor involved only to achieve third of the nation’s Indigenous housing stock. A large NGO addressing homelessness in the USA political participation targets, but rather they are Transfer and scaling up is currently trialling an HfH project in an urban fully involved in all the tasks implied by an HfH A recent state government health department public housing district of and the project – the thinking as well as the physical work. review of ten years of HfH work showed a 40 Between 1999 and 2010, HfH projects have been HfH principles have been applied by Healthabitat per cent reduction in hospital admissions for launched in 184 locations around Australia. These to a remote village sanitation project for 450 Covering costs environmental health-related illnesses. projects have improved over 7,000 houses and people in Nepal. improved the living conditions of over 40,000 By Australian standards, HfH is a low-cost The current National Partnership Agreement for Indigenous Australians. For further details about the Housing for Health programme. From 1999 to 2009, projects had an Remote Indigenous Housing being delivered Programme, please see the contact details on average cost of US$7,500 per house for all works nationally across Australia has incorporated the page 28 or visit the World Habitat Awards website at www.worldhabitatawards.org.

16 WORLD HABITAT AWARD 2011 WINNING PROJECTS Housing for Health Programme, Australia 17 Community Programme for Neighbourhood Improvement Mexico

The Community Programme for Neighbourhood pollutants at ground level. Population density is reforestation of green areas; the building of The central role of communities Improvement (PCMB) is a community-driven extremely high in some areas of the city. communityMr Ban Ki-Moon, diners and Secretary-General, milk stores, and, in the neighbourhood improvement programme caseUnited of steep Nations areas, of safety walls, stairs and The Social Development Secretariat of the that was established in 2007 by the Social Half of the population lives on very low incomes, handrails. Mexico City Government (SDS) is responsible Development Secretariat (SDS) of the Federal in conditions of and marginalisation, for the operation of the PCMB, which was District government of Mexico City. It uses manifested in unemployment, loss of purchasing The programme focuses on neighbourhood established in 2007 by the chief of the Mexico a participatory approach to improving and power and declining income, and resulting improvements rather than on individual house City Government in response to urban social recovering public spaces in informal settlements in a range of social problems including improvements. However, by improving the movements’ increasing demands for decent and and low-income neighbourhoods, particularly family violence, child abandonment, school neighbourhood, its reputation and the quality safe neighbourhoods. The programme design those with high levels of social conflict, urban desertion, teenage pregnancy, high crime rates, of life increase, leading to an increase in local was established by urban social movements and decay and/or marginalisation, and further aims at homelessness, growing addictions and the property values, giving residents a greater other civil society organisations working together reversing socio-spatial segregation in Mexico City. breakdown of social and community bonds. incentive to invest in their own houses. with government officials, all of which continue to participate through the PCMB Advisory Council. Mexico City is an acute example of uncontrolled Neighbourhood upgrading Such improvements furthermore do not only The SDS does not design or propose any kind of urban expansion and environmental result in healthier and safer living spaces for the initiative, but, rather, proposals are sought from deterioration. Approximately one in every six The PCMB is a large-scale urban neighbourhood residents of the neighbourhoods involved, but communities. Communities put forward their Mexicans lives in Mexico City. There are 8.7 improvement programme focusing on also they impact on the residents of the wider city proposals in a neighbourhood assembly and the million people living in the Federal District and the improvement of public spaces, which and on the city as a whole. latter, once approved, are then sent to the judging the wider metropolitan area has a population encompasses: public lighting and sanitation panel of the SDS. For the selected projects, the of over 21 million. More than one third of the projects; the recovery and creation of parks, funds are distributed directly to the communities, population lives in slums (barrios) without water, plazas and community centres, multiple use who elect their own administration, supervision electricity or sewers. Air pollution from vehicles, community halls, cultural and sporting forums, and community development committees and factories and stoves is intensified because Mexico game halls, libraries, cycle tracks, walking paths make all decisions as to how the funds should be City lies in a basin and thermal inversions trap and pavement; garden construction and the allocated.

18 WORLD HABITAT AWARD 2011 WINNING PROJECTS Community Programme for Neighbourhood Improvement, Mexico 19 These committees oversee the construction government funds within the Federal government. The PCMB furthermore has a significant impact 752 in 2010, and the SDS expects to receive over process and are responsible for receiving and For example, two of the 16 city districts have on local governance processes. It allows for 1,000 project proposals by 2012. The number accounting for the public funds as well as for signed a cooperation agreement with PCMB to an increased knowledge of the communities’ of participants in the neighbourhood assemblies the follow-up post implementation. Social and contribute additional resources and assist with the problems by public servants and thus more for project approval is also increasing: 7,980 in technical assistance for the projects is provided to building process and five of the 16 boroughs have efficient conflict resolution, as well as for a new 2007; 18,743 in 2008; 38,917 in 2009 (total the communities by the government, as well as given additional resources to specific projects. understanding of the organisational processes of of 65,640) and for administrative committee by a range of academic institutions, NGOs and communities and the methodology used by civil selection: 5,960 in 2007; 6,130 in 2008; 15,098 other organisations. A capacity-building workshop The PCMB budget has increased from US$6 society organisations. in 2009 (total of 27,188). is held in every community where a project has million in 2007 to US$7.9 million in 2011, been approved for improving management and peaking in 2009 at US$16.3 million. The budget The PCMB eventually impacts on the overarching A communication network has been established administrative skills. was reduced from 2009 to 2010 due to both regulatory frameworks. It voices the demands nationally with many social organisations in economical and political constraints. Each project of the social movements and civil organisations order to pressure local governments to create The programme therefore puts communities at approved by the judging panel can be assigned sitting on the PCMB Advisory Council, which has this mechanism in their districts. For example, in the centre of the planning and implementation resources from US$40,000 up to US$400,000, allowed the latter to effectively influence public Michoacán, forums were organised for a possible processes while relying strongly on their self according to the community’s needs and the type policies for land use development, resulting in the replication of the PCMB. management of resources. It is community- of project being implemented. government creating a policy that recognises the initiated as well as community-driven. significance of the participation of the community Impact for neighbourhood improvements. For further details about the Community Covering costs Programme for Neighbourhood Improvement, The PCMB has an important impact on the Scaling up and transfer please see the contact details on page 28 or visit The funding for the programme comes entirely communities involved, empowering residents the World Habitat Awards website at from the Mexico City Government. The to have an active role in society and in the The programme was initiated in 2007 and www.worldhabitatawards.org programme budget depends on the Federal development and improvement of their own city. is ongoing, with a call for proposals made in District Legislative Assembly. However, the PCMB The collective management of the neighbourhood January each year. The number of proposals is also open to donations from private enterprises, is valued as an opportunity to develop local presented by the communities has increased each international organisations and other local initiatives and strengthen social networks. year, from 139 community proposals in 2007 to

20 WORLD HABITAT AWARD 2011 WINNING PROJECTS Community Programme for Neighbourhood Improvement, Mexico 21 2011 Habitat Scroll of Honour Awards The Habitat Scroll of Honour Award was launched by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) in 1989. The aim of this prestigious human settlements award is to acknowledge individuals and institutions which have made outstanding contributions in various fields such as shelter provision, highlighting the plight of the homeless, leadership in post-conflict reconstruction, and developing and improving human settlements and the quality of urban life. For the first time UN-Habitat recognised a set of good practices as well.

Presented by Lic. Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, President of Mexico, and Dr Joan Clos, Under- Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, the 2011 Habitat Scrolls of Honour were awarded to: Ms Edith Mbanga receives the 2011 Prof. José Fernando Martierena Hernández Habitat Scroll of Honour Award from Lic. receives the 2011 Habitat Scroll of Honour Wintringham (Australia) Yakutsk City Administration (Russia) Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, from Lic. Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, For helping provide accommodation for about For implementing a new cold climate urban President of Mexico. President of Mexico. 1,000 elderly people in need every night. development plan, allowing for maximized energy savings. Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de Estructuras y Materiales (CIDEM, Cuba) Austin Energy Green Building (United States) For blazing a new trail in low-cost, low-energy, For being the first in the United States to lead eco-friendly building materials. the way in sustainable building practices and commercial construction. The Stormwater Management and Road Tunnel (SMART, Malaysia) The good practices recognised were For improving the management of storm water and peak-hour traffic. Centre Africain pour l’Eau Potable et l’Assainissement (Burkina Faso) Ms Edith Mbanga of the Shack Dwellers Federation for Namibia (Namibia) Estrategia de Movilidad en Bicicleta, For her outstanding efforts to improve land access Ciudad de México (Mexico) and housing for the poor as well as for the special benefit of her work to women living in poverty. Urban Bio­diversity in Chiang Rai Municipality towards Sustainable City and Climate Resilience (Thailand)

22 2011 HABITAT SCROLL OF HONOUR AWARDS 2011 Habitat Scroll of Honour Awards 23 World Habitat Award 2011 Finalists

Federal Housing and Habitat Improvement La Cité de la Pierre GLOBE Community Champions Programme Post-Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Programme for Indigenous and Rural People CanadaMr Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General, in Da Ping Village Argentina United Nations

The Federal Housing and Habitat Improvement In response to a public campaign launched in The GLOBE Community Champions Program Following the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake, Programme for Indigenous and Rural People 2002, Le Logis Tournaisien, a regionally-based works with social housing providers to educate, the Da Ping Village in the Sichuan Province of is run under the Under-Secretariat for Urban public sector housing company operating in the engage and support staff and residents in water China was rebuilt with the support of the Green Development and Housing and aims to Walloon region of Belgium, embarked upon the and energy conservation efforts. GLOBE (Green Building Research Centre. The project aimed support and improve the living conditions of refurbishment of a group of severely dilapidated Light on a Better Environment) is a subsidiary of to create a harmonious village through socially Indigenous groups and low-income households ex quarry workers’ houses in the hamlet of Allain. the Social Housing Services Corporation (SHSC), and environmentally sustainable approaches to in rural areas of Argentina. The construction of The exercise served both to increase the social a not-for-profit social enterprise created by the improve housing and infrastructure, economic new homes, improvement of existing homes, housing stock and to restore local pride in the Province of Ontario to deliver programs and conditions, sanitation and livelihoods. development of rural infrastructures and stable area. Eleven housing units were restored, where services to Ontario’s social housing sector. livelihoods are its four main areas of activity. previously only five had been inhabitable. The entire village was reconstructed using The programme uses an integrated approach, traditional construction methods and through National government funding is transferred to The restoration was carried out preserving much linking efficient technologies with preventative community decision-making processes. A local partners or executive bodies, which work of the original design and the newly refurbished maintenance and resident behaviour. Over 150 community centre was built and used to provide directly with beneficiaries and communities. units are now the starting point of a local tourist residents and housing staff in 56 communities training classes and the village now has its own The autonomous programme’s work began in excursion. A Conservation Committee has been have been trained as Community Champions, agriculture skilled teams, construction teams and 2010 and is currently operating in 9 of the 23 set up to work towards the preservation of local leading to resource and cost savings and medical treatment teams. provinces of Argentina. heritage. improved engagement with sustainability issues.

24 WORLD HABITAT AWARD 2011 FINALISTS WORLD HABITAT AWARD 2011 FINALISTS 25 Dissemination of Passive Solar Housing in the Home Improvement in Depressed Rental Mediation Programme 990 Polk Street Cold Desert of the Indian Himalayas Neighbourhoods of Antananarivo and its suburbs SpainMr Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General, United States of America India Madagascar United Nations Through its Rental Mediation Programme, The Tenderloin Neighbourhood Development This programme, carried out by Groupe Energies In 2003, Enda Océan Indien joined up with Asociación Provivienda mediates between Corporation (TNDC) serves San Francisco’s Renouvelables Environnement et Solidarités India, micro-credit institutions in Madagascar to property owners and individuals experiencing hardest-to-house populations, creating and involves the implementation, dissemination and establish a savings and credit scheme for families difficulties accessing housing, to open up promoting affordable housing, fostering scaling up of passive solar housing technologies in living in the Lower City of Antananarivo. This opportunities in the rental market that would not stabilisation and revitalisation of the cold desert areas of the Western Himalayas. Key enabled these families to save and borrow money otherwise be available. neighbourhood, and offering support services technologies include solar gain, thermal mass and for a new house and/or pit latrine and improve for its residents. insulation. their living conditions. Landlords are typically wary of renting to, or impose abusive contractual terms on those The 990 Polk Street project was designed to A three-phase scaling up methodology has been Enda OI supports the families throughout the they perceive as having insecure or irregular provide affordable housing for a diverse group developed. The first phase creates awareness and process, from saving and adjusting to a new credit employment. Provivienda addresses this by of formerly homeless and low-income older seeks to generate demand. During the extension culture through to building and maintaining their arranging multi-risk insurance guarantees for persons. Services, design features and amenities phase the project spreads to target social groups. new property. rental payment, either through an insurance targeted specifically to this population enable During the exit phase, a favourable environment company or through providing these guarantees residents to live affordably and independently. for replication is created, financial support is More than 300 houses have been renovated or themselves. In the last 20 years, the programme In order to best meet the older persons’ diverse phased out and local involvement increases. To built since 2001 and eighty family latrines have has housed 87,000 people. In 2010, Provivienda range of needs, the project provides a supportive date 550 buildings have been completed, and been built since 2006. was involved in 32 different projects in five service model, which includes individual and 215 local masons and carpenters have been regions of Spain. group counselling, referrals to other social trained. service agencies in the community, cooking and nutrition classes, new home orientation, basic life-skills classes, and computer training.

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Building and Social Housing Foundation Community Programme for Neighbourhood An Invitation to Enter Mrs Diane Diacon Improvement The World Habitat Awards were established in 1985 by the Building and Social Housing Foundation Director, Building and Social Housing Foundation Sr. Alberto Martínez Flores as part of its contribution to the United Nations International Year of Shelter for the Homeless. Memorial Square Coordinador Sector Vivienda e Infraestructura Coalville Secretaría de Desarrollo Social, Two awards are given annually to projects that provide practical and innovative solutions to current Leicestershire Coordinación de Mejoramiento de Barrios y housing needs and problems in countries of the global South as well as the North. LE67 3TU Desarrollo Comunitario Plaza de la Constitución No. 2, Colonia Centro Every year an award of £10,000 is presented to each of the two winners at the annual United Delegación Cuauhtemoc Nations global celebration of World Habitat Day. Tel +44 (0)1530 510444 C.P. 06068 FaxMr Ban +44Ki-Moon, (0)1530 Secretary-General, 510332 MEXICO Mr Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General, EmailUnited [email protected] United Nations Web www.bshf.org Tel +55 53 458249 CRITERIA FOR SUBMISSION ENTRY PROCEDURE www.worldhabitatawards.org Email [email protected] Web www.programabarrialsds.df.gob.mx Projects are sought that: The World Habitat Awards competition has a two- stage entry process: • Demonstrate practical, innovative and sustainable solutions to current housing issues Stage I submissions need only comprise a concise Housing for Health United Nations Human Settlements Programme faced by countries of the global South as well as summary of all aspects of the project. From these Mr Paul Pholeros (UN-HABITAT) the North. preliminary submissions, ten projects are selected Director Ms Jane Nyakairu by an assessment committee to go forward to Healthabitat Pty Ltd Chief, Information Services Section • Can be transferred or adapted for use as Stage II of the competition. PO Box 495 UN-HABITAT appropriate. Newport Beach, NSW 2016 PO Box 30030 Stage II submissions are evaluated by an AUSTRALIA • View the term habitat from a broad perspective independent advisory group before being put to and bring other benefits as well, such as energy or a panel of international judges, which include the water saving, income generation, social inclusion, Executive Director of UN-HABITAT and Rector of Tel +61 2 99731316 Tel +254 20 762 3124 community and individual empowerment, the United Nations University, . Evaluation Fax +61 977 31316 Fax +254 20 762 4060 capacity building, health or education. visits will be carried out to some of the projects Email [email protected] Email [email protected] prior to the final judging. Web www.healthabitat.com Web www.unhabitat.org For further information and an online application form please visit www.worldhabitatawards.org

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