Things to do.
Hari Srinivas
Some quick ideas, off my head, for us to move forward. I will update
this as we go along.
1. All interested members create a short bio - one para (8-10 lines)
only. Nationality, experience etc. Include contact addresses and a 24-
hour mobile number. Fax numbers too.
2. Appoint one person as focal point/team leader to assist easy
communication. He/she will then forward all requests to the google
mailing lists.
3. Inform all pertinent groups that we have formed a team and are
available for assistance. I will assist in identifying who these
groups are (See below)
4. Align ourselves with any major UN and bilateral programme on
reconstruction that will no doubt be set up over the next weeks and
months. I will keep my eyes open for this.
5. Check websites and news sources on ongoing relief efforts to be
fully informed of the situation. I will send a list of websites for
this.
6. Read all situation reports uploaded to the list website by Hari
(picked up from UN-OCHA website, accessible to UNDAC members).
7. May be called up any time. Talk to your travel agent on the best,
most direct, fastest travel route.
Things to do for me:
a. Will inform UN Office of Humaniarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) that ISOCARP
has set up a team and is available for consultation.
b. Send emails to key international people about this.
c. constantly upload new information on the relief and recovery
efforts to the website.
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Remmeber that Haiti will be a feeding ground for international
organizations, and we will have to partner with major donors such as
World Bank, EU, USAID et al. All EU members of ISOCARP find out from
EU what their plans are. Ric does the same with USAID.
Ric
I'll prepare an Excel spreadsheet for UPAT candidates (item 1) and
distribute for additions/corrections.
We have about 20 international volunteers as of today--all with unique
skills and/or relationships to this project.
This database will be important not only for this program, but future
ISOCARP UPATs and emergency response teams.
More to follow on the other items...
Sincerely,
Ric
andor
organizations. Is there a template or some other document to use as a
reference describing ISOCARP, the UPAT and our intentions in Haiti?
Also, who should I coordinate with to make sure we do not bombard the
same organization with different messages?
Ric
UPAT
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haydee del socorro beltran uran
Hello colleagues,
The intent of this modest reflection from my experience in the earthquake in Armenia (Colombia) 1999, aims to show only a few of the many ways they interact and interrelated, some of the pieces of this “puzle” dynamic and complex, a "social fabric" struck by an earthquake of magnitude thta struck the corre growuing on 25 January 1999 and that without pretend “detract” partially destroyed by easrthquake in Popayán 1983, resulted in the city of Armenia to the first major urban disaster (withing the modern concept of town) who has lived in Colombia.
As Sociologist Urban Planner, I agree with some institutions like the Organization of Iberoamerican States for Education, Science and Culture (Bulletin No.47, 17 January 2010), in asserting that the tragedy being experienced by Haiti "not a catastrophe natural but rather a predicted disaster in 2008, when five hundred victims and nearly a million victims left homeless, in addition to loses in the arread disastrous economy, because of 4 hurricanes occurred in less than a month “and that therefore we need a new concept of cooperation and solidarity to reduce the ecological impact of our activities and the achievement of sustainable human development.
"Japan, 2005: An earthquake of the same magnitude and proximity to a densely populated area just caused a dead ... because of a heart attack.". This contrast leads us to understand that “these disasters may be entirely preventable if we act motivated by short-term interests and not really take seriously the fight against extreme poverty, environmental degradation, climate change is increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events in Haiti and around the world.
"As noted by Miguel Angel Herrera, director of Oxfam Intermón-Central America and Caribbean, the disaster in Haiti what caused the earthquake but with the tremendous help of dumping forcing farmers to abandon their rice fields and move to the capital, conditions under which pile up hundreds of thousands of people in it, joblessness, inadequate health services, inflation unbearable .... "Poverty attracts disaster." Haiti has one of the highest deforestation rates in the world.
This situation should lead to regional and urban planner to think that when a person is in a crisis situation, which is VERY important to rescue aspect of their identity is less committed to the conflict.
It is a question whose answer is always present and are looking at images, fragments, memories, histories, relationships with oneself and with others, and the identity of psychoanalysis is the result of all the identifications that a person is adding over its history. In simple terms identifications are things character traits that a person making that somewhere else admires, romanticized, or the worst fears.
This means that each of us will have certain types of needs, drives, motivations that meet to feel basically happy and fulfilled at once and this is where major problems are assembled, ie build that identity based on a lifetime project this includes vocation, profession, occupation (work-study), sexuality (training partner, build a family) a knowledge of who I am, I need.
The issue of consolidating our identity is then a job is twofold, on one hand to find an internal sense of unity, and the other from our relations with the world of targeted, this is different from the other, from somewhere, not something society by rewarding or highlight that which is creative, what became a trademark in self-evaluation, self-esteem and so on.
"The tragedy of Haiti is to enhance the citizen requirement for meeting the MDGs, the commitments of development aid. And we must mobilize to demand the transition from a "brown" to a green economy, solidarity and sustainability, to ensure that this year Mexico will sign an agreement on effective, fair and enforceable against climate change. Without this, Haiti and many other places on the planet will again be sad news for serious disasters that can and should avoid”.
It is the job of planning then help to smooth edges between identity. All that is changing and in fact implies othemess. In the letter of the new urbanism Virginia United States issued in 1993 directed his attention on aspects such as demographic changes and housing consumption of land without regard to medioambientals factors, among others.
Cordial saludo,
HAYDEE BELTRAN URAN
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De: andor <a.fa...@ceit.at>
Fecha: Martes, 19 de Enero de 2010, 1:50 pm
Asunto: [ISOCARP Haiti UPAT] Re: Things to do.
A: ISOCARP Haiti UPAT <isocarp-h...@googlegroups.com>