With support from Borderlands (an Australian based Housing Rights organisation) and Norwegian People's Aid, STT has begun to set up a simple system of collecting media articles about land and eviction but also about other issues affecting urban dwellers especially the poor. Khmer, French and English language papers are reviewed and articles scanned into an excel database. The system is still in formation but documentation is well under way and already being used as a resource by researchers looking for information on a range of urban issues. Ultimately STT aims to have certain material available on the website...
This is focused on informal settlements and the general plight of these communities mainly in urban and peri-urban areas but also includes some rural situations where land grabbing and abuses have created profound problems. Research topics include a wide range of issues from documentation of communities and their current infrastructure to wider issues of transport and the environment. Research plays a key role in understanding communities and complements the main work of actually working with communities and their goals.
TTA
recently completed a research project on informal settlements in 3 coastal
towns - Land Not
For Sale (2920kb MS Power Point)
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Click for PDF research files: Facts and Figures
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02 December 2006,
03 February 2007,
04 (Koh Sla) August 2007,
05 (Stop Evictions),
06 Housing
Training aims at building the capacity of community members who show a natural ability to organise and inspire others in a way that breaks the mould of traditional hierarchies and allows room for consensus and discussion. It involves sending community members to visit others communities in Cambodia but also regionally in Laos and Thailand to get ideas and inspiration on how others work in areas of organising communities, budgeting for projects, negotiation techniques, community savings and credit systems etc. In this way we build up a pool of volunteers who are interested not only to help their own area but can explain these ideas to other communities.
