La urgencia de cimentar los ejes rectores hacia una sociedad saludable
Durante el último siglo, la esperanza de vida en el país ha presentado un crecimiento importante, el cual ha sido constante, pasando de 59.4 años en 1965 a 76.8 años en 2011, es decir, ha presentado una tasa de crecimiento media anual de 0.57%, de igual forma, el cambio epidemiológico se ha comenzado a observar.
Una solución para erradicar la pobreza en el DF
“Pobre es aquel que no tiene ni pa comer…” — Esther
Según el CONEVAL, una persona que vive en una zona urbana es pobre cuando su ingreso es menor a $2,114 pesos al mes y carece de un derecho social o más.
Logrando que los gobiernos locales cobren sus propios impuestos
En la Ciudad de México, el impuesto conocido como predial es cobrado por la Secretaría de Finanzas, tal como lo establece el Código del Distrito Federal (Art. 126-133) Dicho impuesto, es establecido de acuerdo al valor determinado por el gobierno local o por ciertas instituciones o personas que deberán cumplir con diversos requisitos (Artículo 22 de dicho código), tomando en cuenta el valor de mercado, el tipo de construcción y otras características (valor catastral).
Acceso a movilidad con sustentabilidad en el DF
Hoy en día el proceso de concentración de la población en las áreas externas de la Ciudad, como respuesta a la concentración humana, industrial, comercial y financiera, ha provocado cambios importantes en los patrones de viajes de la movilidad del D.F.. Mientras que en la década de los ochentas los viajes tenían origen y destino en las mismas Delegaciones, actualmente las distancias por recorrer son más largas e interdegacionales, inclusive hasta los municipios del Estado de México pertenecientes a la Zona Metropolitana. En este contexto, la administración del Gobierno del Distrito Federal desde el 2006 ha implementado diversas estrategias para transformar la movilidad y sentar las bases de una política pública de transporte integral. Leer más o discutir.
Información, fuente para la planeación de la política social
Las ideas mueven al mundo, al igual que los números lo modifican. De acuerdo a Miguel Székely, un número puede despertar conciencias, puede movilizar voluntades, puede llevar a la acción, puede generar debate, y en casos afortunados, puede llevar a la solución de un problema. Los números que han sido protagonistas en México son los datos que surgieron de la medición del nivel y la intensidad de la pobreza en el país. En este contexto, funcionarios de la Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL) y académicos conformaron un Comité Técnico para la Medición de la Pobreza a nivel federal a fin de encontrar un indicador que estableciera la magnitud del problema, caracterizara el fenómeno para el diseño de políticas públicas, programas y acciones y evaluara los cambios en las condiciones de vida de las personas al igual que la incidencia de las acciones gubernamentales en la pobreza. Leer más o discutir.
Getting the local government to collect their own taxes
In Mexico City, the land levy known as 'predial' is collected by the city's Ministry of Finance, as established by the Código Fiscal del Distrito Federal (Art. 126-133). The tax is set based on the value determined by a government official or institution (Art. 22 of the same code) by considering its market value, the type of building, and other characteristics (known as valor catastral).
Ciudades de bienestar
"La ciudad (polis) es una de las cosas que existen por naturaleza; y el hombre es, por naturaleza, un animal político." — Aristóteles
Según la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) el hombre y la mujer son seres biopsicosociales. Este término engloba al ser humano como un ente físico, mental y social.
En otras palabras, este término quiere decir que el ser humano es un ente con un organismo complejo y con una mentalidad enredada que construye su vida con base en valores, conciencia, ética, motivaciones, deseos, personalidad, entre varios ingredientes. Estas variables se forjan en sociedad a través de la familia, amistades, comunidad, municipio, nación, grupos sociales, entre otros.
Si estas aseveraciones son ciertas, sin duda vale la pena analizar, debatir, describir y entender lo que ocurre en las ciudades tomando en cuenta que dentro de ellas habitan millones de personas que por diversos que sean sus intereses, todos buscan construir un mínimo de bienestar.
En este contexto, agradezco a Dallant Networks, URB.IM y en especial a Víctor Dallant por invitarme a deliberar sobre historias de personas en ciudades que buscan incrementar su bienestar y disfrutar su dharma, a través de diferentes estrategias e interacción con diversos actores de la sociedad civil, gobierno, organismos internacionales y sector privado.
Es así que les comparto que a partir de hoy damos el banderazo a este Blog en donde vamos a reflexionar sobre historias de personas que buscan incrementar su bienestar en la Ciudad de México. Algunas serán historias exitosas, otras serán historias de fracaso y otras serán ideales para abrir el debate y opinar en esta arena ciudadana que es el world wide web.
Por último, te invito a que formes parte de este debate activo en twitter a través de las cuentas de @urb_im, @dallant, @fer_carvallo y @jesusgastelum.
Prospectiva Estratégica
Les doy la bienvenida a este blog, el cual estará enfocado a la Prospectiva Estratégica, la cual es una disciplina que abarca una visión global y dinámica del futuro, reduciendo así la incertidumbre del futuro, es decir, en palabras de Maurice Blondel: "El futuro no se predice, sino que se construye".
Bajo este tenor, en este espacio se abordarán temas socioeconómicos, es decir, desde temas variados como la obesidad, hasta temas de recaudación fiscal.
De generación a generación: jóvenes enseñan a adultos mayores a leer para apoyar a su comunidad
Al interior de México las mujeres, indígenas y adultos mayores no gozan de igualdad de oportunidades en temas de acceso educativo, salud y laboral entre otros. Dentro de estas poblaciones, los adultos mayores analfabetas que viven en las ciudades enfrentan una constante vulnerabilidad al no contar con las habilidades suficientes para poder satisfacer sus necesidades básicas y difícilmente pueden ingresar al mercado laboral por falta de capacidades. La generación de adultos mayores de 65 años o más, son los que presentan mayor rezago educativo. De acuerdo al Consejo Nacional de Población (CONAPO), en México en el año 2011 el 24 por ciento de las personas de 65 años o mayores eran analfabetas, mientras que el 94 por ciento de la población entre los 15 años de edad y los 64 saben leer y escribir y son capaces de utilizar dicho conocimiento. Leer más.
Brecha digital: reducción de las disparidades en el acceso a las TIC como herramienta para el desarrollo
Investigadores pertenecientes a la Asociación Latinoamericana de Investigadores de la Comunicación (ALAIC), afirman que las TIC constituyen hoy en día un factor nuevo que se suma a la brecha de la desigualdad social, ya que el acceso a ellas ocasiona un distanciamiento cultural entre quienes la usan y aquellos sectores de la población que no tienen la posibilidad. Además del distanciamiento social, dicho factor provoca un fenómeno educativo de analfabetismo digital, que consiste en la incapacidad para el uso de estas nuevas tecnologías. Leer más.
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Women of Peace in Rio
Women have recently started having a more proactive role in the promotion of public security in Rio de Janeiro. They are actively present in the city's public security efforts as community workers in the Women of Peace program. The program, which plays a pivotal role in Rio's public security strategy, is a state-sponsored, community based initiative that promotes community work within the most vulnerable and violent neighborhoods in the city. The program is financed by the Ministry of Justice and is implemented with the Municipal Social Development Secretariat. Its main objective is to prevent violence and promote "active citizenship" through community work led by women. Read more or join the discussion.
Mulheres da Paz no Rio de Janeiro
As mulheres começam a desempenhar um papel cada vez mais importante na promoção da segurança pública de Rio de Janeiro. Elas estão presentes na segurança pública, trabalhando como agentes comunitários dentro do programa Mulheres da Paz. Mulheres da Paz é o programa complementário das atividades das UPP e uma parte muito importante da segurança pública no Rio. O foco do programa é o trabalho comunitário atendendo as áreas com maior pobreza e violência da cidade. O programa é financiado pelo Ministério da Justiça e coordenado no Rio conjuntamente com a Secretaria Municipal de Desenvolvimento Social. O objetivo deste programa é a prevenção da criminalidade usando a "cidadania ativa". Leia mais ou discutir.
Event: Tech4Good
18–21 março 2013 
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A partir de hoje estão abertas as inscrições para o Tech4Good, movimento liderado pelo Comitê para Democratização da Informática (CDI) e o Instituto-E. O objetivo é convidar a sociedade civil para promover ações que usem a tecnologia para solucionar problemas do dia a dia ou para mobilizar pessoas para uma causa do bem.
Tec-ativistas de todo Brasil podem inscrever suas ideias, até o dia 08 de março, por meio de formulário disponível neste hotsite, pela fan page no Facebook e Google Plus. Ao todo serão seis categorias: Terra, Meio Ambiente, Energia, Economia, Educação e Empoderamento, sendo que é possível uma mesma pessoa participar de mais de uma categoria. As iniciativas serão avaliadas por um júri oficial e os 06 finalistas selecionados serão divulgados no site a partir do dia 14.
No período de 18 a 21 de março os 06 escolhidos vão se apresentar no palco do Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC), evento da Endeavor que reunirá no Lagoon, no Rio de Janeiro, empreendedores de 125 países. Durante o evento, os finalistas receberão troféu e kit Tech4Good e o título de Embaixador do Bem, que confere ao vencedor a possibilidade de ao longo do ano, juntamente com o CDI e Instituto-E, inspirar e incentivar as pessoas a usarem a tecnologia para o bem.
Além disso, o Tech4Good vai premiar empreendedores com ideias de negócios sociais de base tecnológica, que serão convidados a participar de uma mentoria de design thinking, pela empresa MJV Tecnologia e Inovação, também durante o GEC. Leia mais.
Working with children in Rio's favelas
I work in three social projects in favelas of Rio de Janeiro — a daycare in Rocinha, a soccer program in Mangueira, and a digital literacy project in Cidade de Deus — all of which provide education and support networks for children and their families in extremely underprivileged communities. On a given day I probably interact with 20-70 kids depending on which project I am working at. From the moment I began working at these projects, it became clear that community integration is a central part of the environment in which these children live. Read more.
The Complexo do Alemão cable car: An example of inclusion and transformation
The Complexo do Alemão is a agglomeration of several low-income neighborhoods in the North Zone of Rio, with over 90,000 residents. The Complexo is known for its precarious housing, its lack of urban and social infrastructure, and its crime-related past. Since late 2010, however, the Complexo has benefited from several interventions by the police and military; they expelled most of the drug trafficking groups in the area, resulting in a significant drop in crime and violence. Read more or join the discussion.
Teleférico do Complexo do Alemão: Um exemplo de inclusão, acessibilidade e transformação
O Complexo do Alemão é um conjunto de favelas da Zona Norte do Rio de Janeiro onde moram em torno de 90.000 pessoas. O bairro é conhecido pela sua precariedade e carência de equipamentos urbanos e sociais. Além de suas carências básicas, o Complexo do Alemão tem sido vitima do crime organizado e no passado foi uma das áreas de maior violência da cidade. A partir do final de 2010, o complexo vivenciou uma das maiores operações de pacificação por parte da policia e das forcas armadas, expulsando facções criminosas e diminuindo drasticamente os crimes da área. Read more or join the discussion.
Urban mobility in Rio de Janeiro
The city of Rio de Janeiro will host the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Also, the city will host other mega-events including the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup and the 2013 Catholic World Youth Day. In preparation for these events, and aware that such mega-events have large costs while often yielding few long-term benefits, federal, state and local government authorities, together with civil society, have emphasized the need to leave a lasting legacy to the city, while taking the opportunity to solve many decades-old problems.
Event: Grand Challenges and Integrated Innovations: Science for Poverty Eradication and Sustainable Development
25–26 February 2013 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The overarching goals of the conference are to:
1. Highlight the important contributions of science to poverty eradication and sustainable development
2. Connect IAP academies and members with Grand Challenge opportunities
3. Provide opportunity for IAP academies and members to shape future Grand Challenges
4. Showcase innovators, particularly young innovators, tackling these Grand Challenges
Learn more.
Salvemos São Conrado: Rio's new generation using social networks for the environment
One in ten young mobile phone users in Rio de Janeiro use that device for online access; on average, Rio youth are connected to Facebook about 5.3 hours a day. But many of them use the Internet and social networks not just to socialize, but also to mobilize their peers in behalf of social and environmental causes. Such is the case of Marcos Braz and a group of surfers and engaged friends most of them living in Rocinha who are worried about the contamination of São Conrado beach, located in Rio's southern zone and considered by many to be one of the most beautiful in the city. Learn more.
Colocando a comunidade Maré no mapa oficial do Rio
A Maré é uma das maiores comunidades do Rio, composta por 16 favelas e mais de 130 mil moradores. Recentemente o Observatório de Favelas e a Associação Redes de Desenvolvimento da Maré — Redes da Maré — completaram um Guia de Ruas que permitirá a seus moradores ter conhecimento detalhado das ruas e endereços desta importante comunidade. Este é um grande esforço que também permitirá incluir todas as ruas, becos e travessas da Maré dentro do mapa oficial da cidade do Rio de Janeiro, mostrando a importância de aproximar as comunidades de baixa renda da chamada "cidade formal" e ser realmente reconhecida como parte integrada da cidade. URB.IM conversou com Dalcio Marinho Gonçalves, Coordenador Geral do Censo Maré e aprendeu muito sobre esta iniciativa pioneira que está apontando para uma maior e melhor integração das favelas do Rio de Janeiro.
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The menstruation taboo is holding girls back
If girls living in slums are to get ahead in life, it is essential that they be able to attend school just as much as their male counterparts. Yet according to the NGO TearFund, "ten percent of school-age girls in Africa do not attend school during menstruation or drop out completely at puberty because of the absence of clean and private sanitation facilities in schools." As a consequence, solving the taboo issue of the menses has become an important focus of many NGOs and social businesses operating in the Nairobi slums. Read more.
Nairobi is drowning in its own waste
Ridding Nairobi of the mountains of trash that threaten to engulf the city has been a hot topic for the last couple of decades. The issues to contend with range from what to do with the heaps of bags that are suffocating the city and its rivers, and how to close down the Dandora dump site that should have been decommissioned decades ago, to how we can create an environment that encourages recycling and provides jobs for low-income people. The reality, however, is that although the topic remains hot and the issues ever more pressing, nobody ever seems to actually do anything about it. Learn more.
Mapping Kibera
Before October 2009, Kibera, second-largest slum in sub-Saharan Africa, was a blank spot — one that had been photographed and filmed thousands of times but that no one had ever attempted to document properly. That's when Map Kibera's Mikel Maron and Erica Hagen, alongside a group of 13 enthusiastic youth, sought to put Kibera on the map, providing a source of public, open, and shared information that would, they hoped, be used to enhance living standards in the settlement. Read more.
Floods, emergency aid and community resilience in Mathare
Just before dawn on May 13, the Nairobi River broke through a dam upstream from the city and flooded parts of Mathare, carrying with it a number of shacks where people were asleep. One woman was reported killed, while by Monday the unofficial number of displaced people had reached 600. This comes after a Kenya Red Cross warning that since March 2012, 50 have died and tens of thousands have been displaced in Kenya as a result of flooding. What can slum dwellers do to protect themselves from the onslaught of rain during flood season? Read more.
Community mapping: Muungano Support Trust and Pamoja Trust
Most informal settlements in Nairobi lack running water, sewage systems, or any semblance of state-provided infrastructure. That's due in part to the government's refusal to acknowledge those settlements' existence — and, thus, that of the many hundreds of thousands of people who live in them. Muungano Trust and Pamoja Trust joined together to map and enumerate the residents of Nairobi slums, helping them to unite and demand recognition of their basic rights. Read more.
Using World Bank Group instruments to leverage private investment in power
Increasing access to energy in Africa is vital for further development, especially given its population growth and escalating urbanization. By 2030, it is expected that nearly half of Africans will be living in urban areas, with the urban population exceeding rural population by 100 million by 2035. At current electrification rates, in 2030, 654 million Africans will have no access to power. Kenya's government is looking at options for significantly increasing private participation in Kenya's power sector, and is using the World Bank Group to leverage investments. Learn more.
Report from Nairobi: Beyond "flying toilets"
You wake up, as you do every morning, knowing you'll soon be squeezed into an overcrowded matatus and headed for work — and that the nearest toilet is a ten-minute walk from your tin shack. There you'll stand in line for another ten minutes, then pay to use an overflowing and odorous latrine. For many in Nairobi's slums, the "flying toilet" — a thin plastic bag used in your one-room dwelling, then flung as far away as possible in the dead of night — is the only viable alternative to this vile scenario. But the health implications are obvious; hence the determination of a group of MIT researchers and a Swedish NGO to come up with a better solution. Read more.
Unique Computer Training Program in Kibera
Kibera Community Youth Programme (KCYP), a community-based organization in Kibera, entered into a partnership with Nairobits Digital Design School, a college that offers sponsorships to the needy, to establish a unique computer training course. The idea was to devise a course that would help bridge the digital divide between the youth of Kibera and the rest of the world. In fact, there are many computer courses going on currently within Kibera. However, this one is quite different. Learn more.
Can technology bring safety to women in a Nairobi slum?
The hours of darkness are a dangerous time for a woman to be out in an unlit Nairobi slum. A group of researchers from Stanford University have recently been trying to address this issue in a pilot project they are running in Mathare called "Makmende" — the name of a superhero and Internet phenomenon. The project attempts to harness the power of 3G GPS mobile phones by establishing a central hub from which an escorted group's progress is monitored and the information is relayed back to users, as the group proceeds along a predefined route. Learn more.
Sack farms in Mathare
With food insecurity a simple fact of life for many in Nairobi's Mathare slum, Mathare residents are learning to supplement insecure food sources with hands-on alternatives. One popular approach to sustainable urban agriculture in Nairobi's impoverished neighborhoods is the Farm in a Sack concept: filling a burlap sack with a core of rocks surrounded by soil, then growing crops out of little holes in the side. This "vertical" method increases dramatically the amount of produce that can be grown: instead of the 15 sukuma wiki plants produced per square meter by ordinary means, the "Farm in a Sack" method can enable a family to grow up to 60. Read more.
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Technical assistance challenges in self-construction
The self-construction opportunity: A bottom-up answer to low-income housing — Part II
This is a two-part blog on the self-construction housing opportunity in India's informal settlements. Part II highlights innovations needed to address issues of safety and quality in self-constructed housing, guidelines circulated by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), and what we can do to make innovations and information more accessible to communities. Part I highlighted the urgency to acknowledge and facilitate the self-construction market and shared experiences from the mHS pilot.
Implications of the new national measures on housing in Mumbai
Despite the Ministry of Housing revising the categories of urban poor (EWS) and low income (LIG) groups with annual incomes up to Rs 100,000 (USD 1800) and Rs 200,000 (USD 3600) per year respectively, the new estimates will still leave out 60% of Mumbai’s population from accessing the national government affordable housing programs. That is a hard measure to accept when the reality in Mumbai is that 2 in 3 people (or about 60%) live in substandard housing or lack security of tenure in current housing arrangements.
Education for a mobile generation
There has likely been no greater generational divider than the advent of technology. Across the world, youth populations have access to technology — smarter, sharper, and more affordable — that was not available to previous generations. Youth in places like India, for example, can access a vast new world with mobile technology — and a vast new world can access them. The result is that more poverty-alleviation initiatives have focused on catering to youth with innovative uses of technology, particularly focused around education and training initiatives. Learn more.
A city without space
Public space in Mumbai is a rarity. In fact, a recent report by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Environment Improvement Society found that just six percent of the city's land is reserved for open spaces. Within that meager amount, some 60 percent is neither developed nor accessible. The few green parks that do exist are unknown to most residents or have been encroached upon or abandoned by the city. As Neera Punj of CitiSpace said in a New York Times article on the lack of open space in Mumbai, "The biggest challenges to open spaces in the city are misuse, abuse, and neglect." Learn more.
Mumbai's most neglected slum
In a distant northeastern corner of the city, Mumbai discards its waste — refuse, animals, and unwanted people. M-Ward is home to the city's dump yard, slaughterhouse, and some of the worst squalor in a city of dire extremes. There is one toilet for every 87 people, children attend school at the lowest levels in Mumbai, medical care is nearly non-existent, and 85 percent of its 800,000 residents live in slums. In short, "M-Ward is an extreme example of skewed development in the city." Learn more.
Improving safety, honoring tradition: women and birth in South Asia
India's urban poor newborns have some of the lowest survival rates in the world. There are more than 52,000 babies born to urban poor families every week in India, and that number is expected to double by the end of this decade. Each year, nearly 1.2 million newborns in India die within their first four weeks. The shockingly high number amounts to a quarter of all neonatal deaths worldwide. These newborns face grave risks to survival given the complex circumstances into which they are born. Poor nutrition, inadequate housing, and unsafe water are among the myriad issues that reduce life expectancy and make healthcare solutions more than just medical interventions. Learn more.
Climate change and economic loss in Mumbai
Climate change is no longer lurking in some remote or hypothetical future. Cities across the developing world now face the realities of extreme weather caused by global warming, as flooding, heat waves, and severe storms wreak havoc on ill-prepared urban centers. Coastal cities like Mumbai are at such risk, scientists warn, that parts of the city could become completely uninhabitable due to flooding and rising seas. Mumbai was brought to a standstill in 2005, when in just 24 hours nearly three feet of rain fell on the city, leaving more than 1,000 dead — mostly in slum settlements — and 14,000 homes destroyed. Rising temperatures could make such nightmare scenes a more regular — and even more disastrous — occurrence. Learn more.
Art and expression in Dharavi
Stories of community life in Dharavi are often told through the shocking statistics — from life expectancy to labor hazards — that form the backbone of arguments to tear down Mumbai's "eyesore" and replace it with shining towers of pride. Redevelopment plans rarely try to fathom the social fabric woven among the house-of-cards shanties stacked tightly in this tiny space. Recently, though, more creative platforms have emerged to tell the stories of Mumbai's best-known slum. There, art provides a powerful means to educate the local community and a creative way to bring the private struggles of the poor to a very visible place. Read and discuss.
The future of Mumbai's largest 'slum'
Mumbai is a city filled with complexity — economically, socially, religiously, and politically. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Dharavi, the city's largest informal settlement and one of the world's most famous. The one-kilometer-squared area houses 600,000 residents who come from all over the country, speaking dozens of different languages and practicing a variety of traditional customs from their home regions. While the diversity of the area is evident, most of the half-million residents have been united on one particular issue: the tenuous future of their community. Read and discuss.
Mumbai's evolving 'red light' district
Fourteen tangled lanes in Mumbai's Kamathipura area house the city's oldest, and Asia's largest, prostitution district. An estimated 100,000 female sex workers live in deplorable conditions, with little hope of escape. The back-room brothels expose many of the social ills of Mumbai's underbelly: human trafficking, prostitution, poverty, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Though each woman has her own story, nearly all share backgrounds of extreme poverty, coming from some of the most deprived areas of India and neighboring countries like Bangladesh and Nepal. Read and discuss.
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Mengolah Air Banjir menjadi Air Bersih
Bencana banjir yang melanda Jakarta beberapa waktu lalu disebabkan tingginya curah air hujan dan kurangnya daerah serapan air, menyebabkan volume run-off water sangat tinggi dan tidak tertampung oleh sungai atau kanal sehingga air menggenangi jalanan dan permukiman penduduk. Ketika banjir datang, air bersih menjadi sulit untuk didapatkan padahal kebutuhan air bersih di saat banjir justru meningkat. Pada keadaan normal setiap orang membutuhkan air bersih 10 liter per harinya, namun dalam kondisi bencana kebutuhan air bersih masyarakat Jakarta mencapai 60 liter per orang per hari. Keadaan ini diperparah dengan harga air bersih di Jakarta yang memang tinggi dan diklaim sebagai salah satu harga air yang termahal di dunia.
Rumah susun sederhana sewa solusi untuk kampung kumuh?
Daerah kumuh atau permukiman miskin merupakan fenomena umum di kota besar dunia terutama di Negara-negara miskin dan sedang berkembang. Akibat tingginya urbanisasi dan terbatasnya lapangan perkerjaan menyebabkan tingginya tingkat kemiskinan di kota. Mereka yang tidak mampu mencari tempat tinggal layak hidup sebagai tunawisma yang berpindah-pindah dan menempati bantaran sungai, pinggiran rel kereta api, bawah jembatan tol, tanah-tanah kosong baik disekitar pabrik maupun di pusat kota dan membangun gubuk liar yang kerap menggangu ketertiban umum dan pemandangan. Minimnya pengawasan dari pemerintah di masa lalu menyebabkan kian merebaknya jumlah pemukiman liar dan membentuk perkampungan kumuh. Berdasar hasil Survey RW Kumuh 2011 oleh BPS DKI Jakarta terdapat 392 RW yang dinyatakan kumuh di wilayah DKI Jakarta. Baca lebih lanjut atau bergabung dalam diskusi.
Jakarta Sehat, Jakarta Pintar – gebrakan meningkatkan kualitas hidup warga miskin
Permasalahan kemiskinan merupakan salah satu pekerjaan rumah DKI Jakarta yang perlu segera diselesaikan. Setidaknya, sebanyak 360 ribu warga miskin di Jakarta menunggu perhatian pemerintah agar bisa "dipindahkan" ke dalam kelompok ekonomi yang lebih mapan. Apalagi bila angka ini juga dikaitkan dengan jumlah penduduk yang berada di kelompok ekonomi rentan (vulnerable). Meski secara grafik penduduk di kelompok ini berada di luar garis kemiskinan (red: sekitar garis kemiskinan); namun kenyataannya jumlah mereka jauh lebih banyak, dengan kondisi yang juga memprihatinkan. Baca lebih lanjut.
Perlindungan bagi perempuan korban kekerasan
Jakarta sebagai kota megapolitan dianggap belum ramah terhadap perempuan. Tingginya angka kekerasan terhadap perempuan yang cenderung meningkat tiap tahunnya merupakan salah satu indikasinya. Data Komnas Perempuan menyebutkan bahwa di tahun 2011 terdapat 11.289 kasus Kekerasan Terhadap Perempuan di wilayah DKI Jakarta. Dari data tersebut, bentuk kekerasan dalam rumah tangga (KDRT) mendominasi jenis kekerasan yang terjadi terhadap perempuan. Terdapat sekitar 10.307 kasus KDRT sepanjang tahun 2011 dimana mayoritas korban adalah istri. Hal ini menunjukkan betapa perempuan merupakan kelompok paling rentan terhadap kekerasan, terutama di rumah tangga. Baca lebih lanjut atau bergabung dalam diskusi.
Modernitas Jakarta di tengah Kemiskinan Ibu Kota
Jakarta merupakan area perkotaaan terpadat di Indonesia dengan pertumbuhan penduduk yang cepat dan juga signifikan. Kota ini menjadi tempat temu jutaan manusia yang berasal dari penjuru tanah air untuk melakukan perpindahan. Mereka berbondong-bondong menjalani mobilitas spasial ke Jakarta semata-mata untuk memperoleh kemudahan. Di kota ini, hampir semua jenis kebutuhan bisa didapatkan, mulai dari pekerjaan, pendidikan, bisnis, layanan kesehatan, hiburan, dan lain sebagainya. Jakarta menjadi pusat segala aktivitas kehidupan disamping peran utamanya sebagai pusat pemerintahan Republik Indonesia. Baca lebih lanjut.
Sirkus sosial untuk pemberdayaan anak-anak Cilincing
Cilincing, Jakarta Utara adalah satu dari 392 perkampungan kumuh di Jakarta berdasarkan data Biro Pusat Statistik tahun 2011. Angka putus sekolah di Cilincing tergolong tinggi. Ada beberapa sebab, turut bekerja membantu keuangan keluarga menjadi alasan utama. Alasan lain, masih banyak iuran dari pihak sekolah yang harus dibayar, misalnya untuk buku, seragam dan kebutuhan penunjang belajar. Bagi mereka yang bersekolah jauh dari tempat tinggal, biaya transportasi menjadi kendala tersendiri.
A new political space for the poor of Jakarta?
Since the 1970s, the successive governors of Jakarta have had mostly limited policies to improve the conditions of the poor. The number of urban poor people increased steadily, in parallel with the growing population, yet without any improvement in their ability to participate politically. They continued to face eviction and persecution by authorities. Every five years, they were used as voters by the Golkar ruling party to back up the Soeharto authoritarian government to win elections. With the weakness of civil society, the poor received little help and remained economically and politically marginalized. Only in the last year have the lives of the poor seemed to change. The triumph of Joko Widodo (Jokowi) immediately triggered a glimmer of hope for the poor. Read more or join the discussion.
Pembinaan bakat di bidang olahraga untuk anak-anak
Seperti yang kita tahu, olahraga tidak hanya melatih kemampuan fisik, namun juga membentuk kepribadian yang baik. Dengan semangat sportivititas dan kerjasama tim, olahraga menjadi sarana aktualisasi diri yang sangat tepat bagi jiwa muda. Karena rasa ingin tahu dan energi yang kadng berlebih, tidak jarang anak muda terjerumus kedalam kegiatan-kegiatan yang negatif seperti narkoba, pergaulan bebas dan tawuran. Daripada terjerumus ke dalam hal-hal negatif seperti itu, sebaiknya anak-anak muda ini sejak dini diarahkan untuk mengikuti kegiatan yang sesuai dengan minat dan bakatnya, contohnya kegiatan olahraga. Baca lebih lanjut atau bergabung dalam diskusi.
Event: 2nd International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Society
13–14 July 2013 Jakarta, Indonesia
ICKCS 2013 aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of Knowledge, Culture and Society, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. Learn more.
Anak jalanan punya harapan
Perkampungan kumuh bukan tempat yang ideal untuk berkembang, utamanya bagi generasi termuda kita. Kemiskinan dan kurangnya akses terhadap fasilitas tumbuh kembang anak menghasilkan angka anak jalanan yang terus bertambah. Data terakhir menunjukkan sedikitnya delapan ribu anak berkeliaran di pemukiman informal Jakarta dan sekitarnya. Sekolah Master di Depok memastikan bahwa masih ada harapan bagi anak-anak ini. Baca lebih lanjut di sini.