Fw: [SwarajForCities] REMINDER - WEBINAR Today at 6:30 PM: "Decentralising Planning" - Building Planning Capacity at Ward and Area Levels, to Localise SDGs
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Date: Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 10:30 AM
Subject: [SwarajForCities] REMINDER - WEBINAR Today at 6:30 PM: "Decentralising Planning" - Building Planning Capacity at Ward and Area Levels, to Localise SDGs
Time: 6.30 PM IST
For more details and Registration, please click here: www.SwarajForCities.in
ABOUT THE EVENT:
The 74th Amendment pushes for deepening democracy at the local level & "Bottom up planning"; Local Area Plans have to be developed at the grass root levels - at the Area Sabha level & at the Ward Levels, in tune with the guidelines and overall vision of the Metropolitan Planning Committee 'Development Plan', and these need to be consolidated into the district Masterplan by the MPC.
But the big question is how do Area Planning Committees and Ward Planning Committees build capacity to take on the task of planning? Are common citizens up to the task? Would they understand the nuances and frameworks of Planning? What innovations might be required to support or facilitate citizens' efforts to meet the challenges of planning for their areas?
Join Shreya Pillai, Smita Singh, Avinash Madhale, and Kathyayini Chamaraj along with Sandeep Anirudhan as they engage in a discussion on what facilitation might be required for everyday citizens to become 'planning literate', so that they can participate and contribute to the planning of their neighbourhoods?
Shreya Pillai, Independent Researcher and Planner- Urban and Social Policy
Shreya Pillai is an urban planner with a focus on policy, anthropology, gender, social and environmental safeguards and monitoring in infrastructure development. Over the past twenty plus years, she has worked with corporates, non-profits, multilateral donor agencies and governments in various positions of public policy and research. These include the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the Department for International Development, Gov of UK, State of Maryland, USA and Environmental Planning Collaborative (EPC), Ahmedabad. Her last project was the Karnataka Integrated Urban Water Management Infrastructure Project. She is based in Bangalore, India
Smita Singh, Urban Planner and Urban Designer
Urban designer, urban planner and real estate consultant. Principal-Urban Design at Atto Atelier, Visiting faculty-School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi and consultant to IFC, World Bank. Member - Institute of Town Planners, India and Institute of Urban Designers, India.
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Avinash Madhale - Programme Director, Urban (Informal Sector) at Centre for Environment Education, Pune and Mumbai.
For the last 18 years, he has been facilitating participatory budgeting and helping citizens engage in city governance processes. He has been working as a political communication expert in the area of sustainable urban transportation, water & sanitation, school education and informal economy with focus on street vendors. He has his Ph D thesis titled ”Politics of Participation and Policies of urban governance: cases of participatory processes in Urban India”. He is also a visiting faculty at Centre for Urban Policy and Governance, TISS, Mumbai and associated with “Transforming M Ward Programme” of TISS.
Smt Kathyayini Chamaraj, Executive Trustee, CIVIC- Bangalore
Kathyayini Chamaraj is a freelance journalist writing for more than 3 decades on development issues. She is also the Executive Trustee of CIVIC Bangalore since 2005, which works on the effective implementation of the 74th CA and on the Rights to Food, Health, Education, Housing and Social Security for the urban poor. She has worked extensively with Government of Karnataka on child labour and primary education. She is involved with several organisations and social movements, especially the Right to Food and Work Campaign. She is a recipient of the ‘Journalism for Human Rights’ Award for 1997 given by PUCL, and the 'Bengalurean of the Year' award for 2015 given by Namma Bengaluru Foundation, among others.
Sandeep Anirudhan, Convenor, www.ConsciousCommunities.in
Creator & Anchor – Swaraj for Cities
After a career in entrepreneurship and management, he quit conventional life completely to serve a larger purpose, and plunged himself completely into Sustainability Advocacy in all domains. He has built several communities, which play catalysing roles in generating awareness and action, in areas as diverse as Sustainability, Regeneration, Citizen Engagement and Participation, Grass-root Democracy, Water Security, Urban Planning & Governance, Sustainable Mobility, Natural Farming, Conservation, Climate Action, Green Citizenship and Lake Citizenship, etc., The Urban citizenship initiatives he convenes are ‘‘Citizens’ Agenda for Bengaluru’, ‘Namma Whitefield’ and ‘Bengaluru Mobility’, and relentlessly pursues the agenda of 74th Amendment implementation through these. His planetary citizenship initiatives are ‘Aikyam Community for Sustainable Living’, ‘Coalition for Water Security’, ‘Green Tweet Army’ and ‘Save Pattandur Agrahara Lake’. He is also an active proponent of the Natural Farming movement. Through all of these, he’s been promoting 'conscious living' on our planet. Deriving inspiration from both the ‘Constitution of India’ and ‘Hind Swaraj’ by Gandhiji, his personal and public lives are examples of 'minimalism', 'gift economy' and community engagement.
