Mapping the city for youth migrants
By Gemma Todd
Cairo
Cairo
Cairo Community Manager and Content Coordinator — URB.im
URB.IM, the global community working for just and inclusive cities, propagates innovation and connects all members of the ecosystem working on urban poverty alleviation.
A project of Dallant Networks, LLC and the Ford Foundation, this new online platform establishes an international community of practice and learning, sharing ideas and experiences in order to innovate, replicate, and scale working solutions to the problem of urban poverty.
It is currently focused on eighteen cities: Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Jakarta, Dhaka, Chittagong, Cairo, Lagos, Nairobi, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Bogotá, Cali, Curitiba, Accra, Cape Town, and Johannesburg.
We are looking for a Community Manager and Content Coordinator for the city of Cairo.
The Community Manager and Content Coordinator for the Cairo node of the urb.im network will:
- Produce and aggregate news, events, projects and other developments of interest to members of the community of practitioners and program leaders working in urban poverty alleviation in Cairo
- Recruit bloggers and other volunteer contributors for the urb.im/cairo platform and coordinate all content traffic
- Initiate and moderate online discussions happening on the urb.im/cairo platform
- Be an active participant in the overall urb.im network and interact on a regular basis with other Content Coordinators in the network
This position is ideal for urban-planning students and graduates, journalists and social activists working in urban poverty alleviation. In addition to receiving extensive visibility on an important social media platform, the ideal candidate will receive a monthly stipend.
Qualified candidates should their detailed information.
Youth focus: Can grassroots movements bring in girls' voices?
Data has emerged showcasing the latest trends of our demographic shift - the global population now articulates a 'youth bulge'. The UN-Population Demographic Profile (2010) show children, and 'youths', comprise 1.6bn, and 1.0bn, of the population in less-developed regions. The population is younger; and Sub-Saharan Africa is no exception. Attention is now turning to youths: what young people do, what opportunities they initiate for their families and nations, and what it means to be 'young' in the developing world. However, an important caveat requires recognition: the focus has been particularly male-focused. Our understanding of girls, within both public and private spaces, remains limited. Such is the debate in this blog post - if we are now looking at 'kids' in the city and development, what are the experiences of girls? What can we learn about the city through an engendered perspective? Fundamentally, who is responsible to grant equal rights? Two models of intervention are discussed be, each using alternative methods to provide rights for girls. However, each acts to reinforce the need to improve our understandings on 'being' a girl. Read more.
أثارت جوانب مدينة القاهرة التاريخية، و المعمارية، والثقافية، و الاقتصادية، و السياسية عديد من المؤلفات والكتابات الأدبية المختلفة عن المدينة .و مع أخذ ذلك في الاعتبار، لدي ثلاث اقتراحات لكتب مميزة عن تاريخ القاهرة العريق, و لوجستيات و تعقيدات هذه المدينة.Who will plan Africa's cities?
Africa's cities are growing — and changing — rapidly. Without appropriate planning, they will become increasingly chaotic, inefficient and unsustainable. In many countries, planning legislation dates back to the colonial era. It is ill-equipped to deal with contemporary urban problems. A shortage of urban planning and management professionals trained to respond to urban complexity with progressive pro-poor approaches exacerbates urban dysfunction. Read more.
رصد المبادرات العمرانية بالقاهرة
منصة المبادرات العمرانية بالقاهرة، موقع أطلقه مختبر عمران القاهرة للتصميم والدراسات "كِلَسّتَر" مؤخراً باللغتين العربية والإنجليزية، "تضم المنصة مبادرات متعددة في الهندسة المعماريّة والفنون والتنمية العمرانيّة والمبادرات الحقوقية وتلك متعددة التخصصات التي تتناول موضوعات تتعلّق بالمدينة والبيئة العمرانيّة والمساحات العامّة في القاهرة." عبر استخدام خريطة تفاعلية تتيح للمستخدمين إضافة مبادرات جديدة كنوع من الخرائط التعاونية.
'العلم قوة' - الحملة الوطنية لمحو الامية
من أكبر المشاكل التي يواجهها الفقراء في مصر هي مشكلة الامية. تشير الإحصاءات الحكومية على أن هناك إجمالي ١٧ مليون مواطن و مواطنة في مصر، معظمهم إناث في صعيد مصر و منطقة القاهرة الكبرى، لايستطيعون قراءة و كتابة اللغة العربية. في أواخر عام ٢٠١١، قامت مؤسسة فودافون مصر (Vodafone Egypt Foundation) بالاشتراك مع جمعية صناع الحياة (Life Makers Association) و منظمة اليونسكو (UNESCO) لإنشاء حملة مشتركة تحت عنوان 'العلم قوة.' والهدف من هذه الحملة هو القضاء على الأمية في مصر بحلول عام ٢٠١٧ من خلال توفير الفصول التي تعلم أساسيات القراءة، و الكتابة، و المهارات الحسابية في تسع محافظات مختلفة.
"Knowledge is Power" national literacy campaign
One of the biggest problems faced by those living in poverty in Egypt is illiteracy. Government figures estimate that there are 17 million Egyptians who cannot read and write, the majority of whom are females concentrated in Upper Egypt and the Greater Cairo Region (GCR). In late 2011, the Vodafone Egypt Foundation partnered with the Life Makers Association and UNESCO under a joint campaign titled "Knowledge is Power." The campaign aims to eliminate illiteracy in Egypt by 2017 by providing classes that teach basic reading, writing, and arithmetic skills in nine different governorates. Read more or join the discussion.
لا يا بيه دي مجهودات ذاتية
تشترك غالبية المجتمعات المهمشة أو العشوائية في صفات كثيرة مثل غياب غالبية الخدمات الأساسية، من مياه الشرب والكهرباء، والصرف الصحي. بالإضافة إلى انتشار القمامة ونقص الخدمات التعليمية ووقوع بعض المناطق تحت كابلات الضغط العالي والتعرض للأخطار العمرانية مثل انهيار المباني والإخلاء القسري.
Slums? No sir, these are self-built communities
"The Right to Housing" is a documentary series and a part of the "Right to Housing, a Socially Just and Sustainable Built Environment" initiative. This project aims to link urban issues and challenges with the right to housing: it proposes that this right should be respected in the constitution and in laws and that adequate urban policies be put in place to reflect the needs of the people. Read more or join the discussion.
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