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Organized by CEPT University, Ahmedabad and facilitated by Banaras

Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi

From 3 -8 January, 2011

“For Me and For

Everybody”

Workshop Summary and Highlights

For Me and For Everybody From 3 – 8 January, 2011

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgement..................................................................................................................................................3

Introduction to “For Me and For Everybody”.........................................................................................................4

Idea behind the workshop......................................................................................................................................4

Brief overview of the events and summary of the sessions ...................................................................................5

Day 1, Jan 3, 2011 (Monday) ............................................................................................................................. 5

Day 2, Jan 4, 2011 (Tuesday) ..............................................................................................................................7

Day 3,- Jan 5, 2011 (Wednesday) .....................................................................................................................10

Day 4, Jan6, 2011 (Thursday)...........................................................................................................................14

Day 5, Jan7,, 2011 (Friday)...............................................................................................................................16

Day 6, Jan 8,, 2011 (Saturday) ..........................................................................................................................19

Glimpses of the FMFE, Capacity Development Workshop at CEPT, Ahmedabad................................................20

Annexture-1 : The list of participants ................................................................................................................... 23

Annexture-2: The sample feedback form .............................................................................................................23

Annexture-3: Event Schedule ..............................................................................................................................25

Annexture–4: FMFE Hands On 26


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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We sincerely acknowledge the valuable inputs and overwhelming support and co-operation rendered by many

individuals during the course of this Workshop. To begin with, we would like to express our deep gratitude to:

Mr Kartikeya Sarabhai, Director, Center for Enviromental Education (CEE), Ahmedabad.

Ms Meera Nareshwar, Program Coordinator, CEE, Ahmedabad.

Mr Y.B.Kausik, Organizing Secretary, Vikram Sarabhai Center, CEE, Ahmedabad.

Mr Prasant Pandya, Dy Director, Solid waste management cell, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC)

Mr Debashish Nayak, Advisor Heritage Cell, Ahmedabad

Mr Girish Gupta and team of Ahemdabad Heritage Cell, Ahmedabad

GUEST SPEAKERS AND PANELIST

Mr Madhusudhan Agarwal, Co-founder, MAM Movies, Ahmedabad

Mr.Anand Patel, Additional City Chief Engineer, AMC. Ahmedabad

Mr Yatin Pandya, FOOTPRINTS E.A.R.T.H. Ahmedabad

Mr Rajendra Joshi, Director, SAATH and Parivartan,

Mr P.K. Ghosh, IAS (retd), Ex- Municipal Commissioner, AMC.

GIZ ASEM TEAM

Dr Regina Dube, Sr. Advisor and Head, Sustainable Urban Habitat (SUH), GIZ-ASEM

Ms Aparna Das, Sr. Technical Expert, SUH, GIZ–ASEM

Ms Jessyca Keil, Intern, GIZ-ASEM

CEPT TEAM

Prof C.K Koshy, IAS (Retd.), Emeritus Professor, CEPT University

Prof Utpal Sharma, Dean of Faculty of Planning and Public Policy, CEPT University

Prof Seema Khanwalkar, Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, CEPT University

Prof Neelkanth Chhaya, Professor, Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University

Prof R. Parthasarathy, Professor, Faculty of Planning and Public Policy, CEPT University

Ms Soumini Raja, Research Fellow, Faculty of Planning and Public Policy, CEPT University


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Report on the capacity development workshop under the GIZ –ASEM supported

“For Me and For Everybody” At CEPT University, Ahmedabad from 3-8 Jan, 2011

INTRODUCTION TO “FOR ME AND FOR EVERYBODY”

“For Me and For Everybody” (in Hindi “Mere Liye Aur Sab ke Liye”) - a youth exchange programme between

India and Germany is designed to encourage young people to think about their environment and its influence

on their daily life. It harnesses the creativity and the motivation of young people to respond positively towards

their natural and urban habitat. Across the world, more and more young people are engaging directly and

responding to their immediate natural and built environment. They are going beyond their academic curricula

and are looking for opportunities to receive more ‘hands on’ experiences. “For Me and For Everybody”

provides opportunities to these young people who are open to new experiences and discussions that would

support forward-looking solutions for a future society. This exchange programme gives them a chance to

contemplate on their ideas and have new experiences related to environmental issues.

“For Me and For Everybody” is an adaptation of “The German Voluntary Year of the Environment (FÖJ)”

programme to Indian context. This programme has been designed in cooperation with GIZ-ASEM, Varanasi

Municipal Corporation (VMC), Banaras Hindu University (BHU) and the City of Hamburg. A competition process

was held on 18 and19, November, 2010, to identify eight students who will work in the sanitation sector with

the city based institutions, as a part of their academic curriculum. A week long capacity development

workshop was organized to orient these students, from 3-8 January, 2011 at the CEPT University, Ahmedabad.

Subsequently, these participants will be working with selected host institutions in Varanasi, from mid-January

till March (part time), as part of their academic curriculum. Finally, the program foresees an interaction

between the German and Indian youths in a two week long seminar in Hamburg, Germany, in May 2011 and a

subsequent presentation in India.

IDEA BEHIND THE WORKSHOP

The focus of the workshop was to sensitize the students to understand various issues related to urban

development, governance and environmental management systems as well as to teach them how to structure

a research proposal. The workshop was structured in a manner, which combined lectures and exposures with

enough time built in to develop inter-personal skills and communication. The overall workshop broadly

included:

• Lecture sessions by experts from industry, research organizations and non government initiatives.

These sessions were meant to give general understanding of the subject to the participants.

• Theme interactive session/panel discussion by eminent speakers. These sessions were more focused

on urban issues and related debates. Sessions were interactive, which gave the participants basic

understanding of various perspectives.

• Workshops were meant to enable the participants to use various tools for communication.

• Outdoor visits to wet land ecosystems, waste management sites and urban heritage precincts. These

were meant to give a practical understanding of the places and issues related to this.


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BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE EVENTS AND SUMMARY OF THE SESSIONS

DAY 1 - 3R D

JAN 2011

(MONDAY)

11:00am Arrival in CEPT Campus

On the arrival of BHU students at CEPT, Prof. Saswat Bandyopadhyay, HOD,

Environmental Planning Department, CEPT University, welcomed the

students and briefed them about the campus and its facilities.

11:30am-

1:00pm LECTURE “Maximum City”- Overview of Cities, Structure, Forms, density and Land use

Planning processes by Prof Utpal Sharma, Dean of Faculty of Planning and

Public Policy, CEPT University, Ahmedabad

Focus of the session: Basic introduction to Urban planning, Planning

terminologies and methods.

Prof Utpal Sharma gave an insight into the process of spatial planning and

the terminologies related to urban planning. The summary of the

presentation is as follows:

• The relationship between the population and the densities in a city.

The effect of the economy and compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of

population in cities on the densities.

• Understanding the term urban sprawl and its relation with

petroleum consumption. A comparative graph showed that developed

economies with higher urban sprawl tend to consume more petrol –

American, European and Middle-eastern cities.

• The planning has to consider the transit networks, the existing

urban morphology and the density gradient. The process was articulated by

using the Master Plan for the city of Hyderabad as an example.

Prof Utpal Sharma giving his presentation on “Maximum City”.


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1:00pm-

2:00pm

Lunch Break

2.00pm-3.30

pm LECTURE An interactive session on “Climate Change and Cities” by Ms Soumini Raja,

Research Fellow, Faculty of Planning and Public Policy, CEPT University,

Ahmedabad.

Focus of the session: Introduction to various debates and concepts related

to climate change and cities’ response to climate change.

Climate change and cities – Soumini introduced a movie of a coastal city-

Surat. This was followed by a presentation that focused on issues of climate

change and few terminologies in climate change studies. The presentation

was followed by an extended question and answer session. The key points

of the session were:

• Discussion on Man-Nature relationship and issues on sustainability

• Climate change: An introduction, basic terminologies

• UKEFF film “Notes from a Green City” by Madhyama Subramanian

• Study on Gujarat Coastal cities – What can we do? Is there an

action plan?

4:00pm-

5:00pm

Introductory Theme Lecture on Urbanization, Environment and Climate

Change issues in the Indian Context by Prof Saswat Bandyopadhyay,

Faculty of Planning and Public Policy, CEPT University, Ahmedabad.

• India has a long lineage of city planning, looking at Mohenjo-Daro

in Sind and Harappa in Punjab. These cities clearly show urban

planning principles.

• In current planning practices a number of alternatives are used –

Structure plan, concept plan, development plan, zoning plan, sub

regional plan and town planning scheme.

• Development Plan (DP) is a long-term landuse planning for

development and management of urban areas. DP is a futuristic

planning approach for the physical form and structure of an urban

area. The framework of development plan includes among others

land use, traffic and transportation, housing, slum upgradation and

environmental upgradation.


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Prof Saswat Bandyopadhyay explaining a DP process

5:00pm-

6:30pm WORKSHOP “Explain Your City”- Group Exercise to describe the forms and elements of

their city.

Focus of the Session: Understanding the perceptions related to cities.

The session was basically divided into the following parts:

A ten minutes film of Mr Devdutt Patnaik, CBO, Future Group on

perception, Belief and social interaction from Technology, Entertainment,

Design (TED).

• A group exercise -“Map Your City”.

• Rise and fall of cities in India in different periods and key facts.

• Individual presentation to share their own perception about their

own city: “Me and My city”.

This was an individual exercise where each participant had to describe their

city by mapping it on an A2 sheet. The exercise was to be discussed next

morning by each person explaining the general typology and features in the

city. A video of TED talks by Devdutt Pattnaik, CBO future group was shared

with the students.

Mr Pattnaik used a number of illustrations and examples from Indian

mythology to explain the word: Perception. Therefore, before we judge any

city, it is very important to know its background, context, thinking process

and ideologies.

DAY 2 -

JAN4,2011

(TUESDAY)

9:30am-

11:00am WORKSHOP The session started with the individual presentation of the previous day

workshop “Explain Your City”. Each student was given two minutes to talk

briefly about their perception about the city

Soon after the presentation, the co-coordinator briefly discussed the


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evolution of cities in India. The discussion started with Harappan cities

(Harappa, Mahanjodaro and Dolavira). After covering the cities of Indus

civilization, cities of Vedic era was discussed. In specific, the examples of

Varanasi, Madurai and Ujjain, were taken up. The session concluded with a

brief discussion among the participants sharing personal perceptions about

the city of Varanasi.

11.45am VISIT TO

CEE

All participants moved to the Centre for Environmental Education (CEE)

campus. Ms Meera Nareshwar, Program Coordinator, CEE, Ahmedabad, welcomed

the BHU students and gave a brief over view of the CEE campus.

Introduction to VIKSAT by Mr.Y.B.Kausik, Organizing Secretary, VIKSAT, CEE,

Ahmedabad.

VIKSAT (Vikram Sarabhai Centre for Development Interaction) basically

deals with the sustainable use of natural resources with community

participation. VIKSAT’s major focus areas are :

• Joint Forest Management

• Land management

• Water shed management

• Indigenous water harvesting

Short discussion with Mr Kartikeya Sarabhai, Director, CEE, Ahmedabad.

Mr Kartikeya Sarabhai welcomed the BHU students. He further explained,

that a citiy, whether organic or formal, each has a specific structure. Being

organic does not imply absence of structure, it is not explicitly visible but a

complex pattern governs the functioning.

Therefore, during planning processes, one should also take into account the

organic structure within the city. The city planning is not regulated by

planners, but, by the needs of the people. An apt example of this is the

design of Law Garden in Ahmedabad. In the new design, while the place

retains its vibrancy and identity, the road side retailers also have their

space, integrated with the new development plan.


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Interaction with Mr Kartikeya Sarabhai, Director, CEE, Ahmedabad.

1:30pm-

2:30pm

Lunch Break

2:30pm-

4:30pm WORK SHOP “Media, Society and transformation” workshop on Media applications by

Madhusudhan Agarwal, Co-founder, MAM Movies, Ahmedabad.

Session started with a short film about personal hygiene inspired from a

popular hindi movie “Sholay”. The movie talks about the open defecation

and clean drinking water collection issues.

Soon after the movie Mr. Agarwal gave a short introduction about MAM

Movies and media for social change through 2 projects undertaken by

different people all over the world.

• “I am the change”: Filmmakers, amateurs, students and everyone

is invited to capture these stories through camera in just 101

hours. Participants can choose to make a film on an everyday hero,

a NGO or a pertaining social cause.

• “She Creates”: Young girls of Mumbai, expressing themselves, their

concerns through making of films. This process was facilitated by

the experts from MAM movies, Ahmedabad.

During this session, two movies were screened, “Wasting food culture” and

“Free Hugs” movement.

This interactive session concluded with a short animated Gujrati film which

narrates how alcohol causes poverty. At the end Mr Agarwal distributed a

Smile card to inspire students to start doing some random act of kindness.


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“Media, Society and transformation” workshop on Media applications by Madhusudhan

Agarwal

4:30pm-

5:00pm

Tea Break

5:00pm-

6:30pm

Introduction to Individual Research Proposal by Prof Saswat

Bandyopadhyay, Faculty of Planning and Public Policy, CEPT University,

Ahmedabad.

In this session, Prof Saswat briefly explained research methodology and

highlighted various possible research questions and how to write a research

proposal.

DAY 3 –

JAN5, 2011

(WEDNESDAY

)

6:30am-

8:30am OUT DOOR

VISIT

Visit to Thol- Wetland Ecosystem near Ahmedabad.

Thol lake bird sanctuary is a shallow freshwater body surrounded by

marshes on the edge and scrubby forest embarking the sides. This lake

sanctuary covering an area of 7 square kilometers, was declared officially in

1988. Thol is a good example of how the natural ecosystems are integrated

within a nearby large urban sprawl.


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A visit to Thol, Wetland ecosystem

9:00am-

11:00am

Interactive session with Mr Prasant Pandya, Dy Director, Solid waste

Management cell, Ahmedabad Muncipal Corporation (AMC), at AMC

Conference Hall, Kankaria, Ahmedabad.

Mr Prasanth Pandya, gave a brief overview of the waste management

system in Ahmedabad and highlighted:

• Ahmedabad is one of the first cities, in India, to have a fully

mechanized system for transportation of solid waste, without any

manual loading of waste

• With 600+ Vehicles and machineries deployed for transportation.

2600 MT of waste are collected and disposed every day.

• Hotels, Restaurant and Kitchen Wastes on PPP mode.

• To ensure that Bio Medical Waste generated at Five Municipal

Hospitals (5), Referral Hospitals, Urban Health Care Centers (55), is

collected daily and disposed off at Incineration Plant. Contracts for

above have been given to private GPCB approved authorized

contractors.

11:00am-

1:30pm

Visit to Solid Waste Management site of AMC in Ahmedabad

Interactive session with Mr Prasant Pandya, Dy Director, Solid waste management cell, AMC


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A view of Solid Waste Management Facility in Ahmedabad

1:30pm-

2:30pm

Lunch Break

2:30pm-

4:30pm WORKSHOP Workshop on “Perception and Communication” by Prof Seema Khanwalkar,

Faculty of Arts and Humanities, CEPT University, Ahmedabad.

Focus of the session: Understanding the methodologies involved in making

a Public Campaign. Hands-On –How to design a Public Campaign?

Perception is a complex process of seeing something and interpreting the

same in our mind. The visual image is selective and depends on the

individual. A similar image during the day time and at night would have a

very different impact on the viewers.

Portraits and snapshots have a different goal to achieve. Portraits are

timeless i.e. unaffected by time and people can always relate to the image.

Snapshot is about ‘doing’ and ‘happening’ and tries to capture specific

moments in time. There is a connection between a brand and the images.

When one talks about ‘Levis’ a specific typology of images built up in our

mind – the dark tones, rugged texture, etc.

“Perception and Communication” by Prof. Seema Khanwalkar

4:30pm-

6:00pm THEME

SESSION

“Suno EK Nadi Ki Kahani”- History of a River, its glory, its pain, and

community’s struggle towards a pollution free river by Prof Neelkanth

Chhaya and Prof R. Parthasarathy, CEPT University, Ahmedabad.


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Focus of the Session: The human-river relationship, community struggle in

pollution reductions

At the outset, Prof Chaya made a detailed presentation of the river and

human settlements. From its origin, the river flows from the mountain

terrains and rocky mountains with a great force cutting the river bed

deeper. As it reaches the plains the flow reduces and the erosion on the

bank starts. The span of the river also increases with reducing speed of the

flow. The nature of the water of always to spill when is it static and flow

along the slope in motion. Unlike the river the unique character of the

human settlement is to move upstream. When a settlement on the river

bank wants to expand it moves upwards.

He also explained how geography and land form keeps changing due to

constant human interventions in order to expand the city. In time and with

the use of technology the land-use changes and thus changes the

occupations. This results in the entire river eco system getting imbalanced.

Various ecosystem services stops functioning.

As an example the construction of SG Highway stopped the flow of the rain

water from one side to the other. It almost acts like a check dam during the

monsoon. After the flood in 2005 the authority had to break the highway in

some parts to release the storm water. Now only few culverts exist along

the road. That results the drying of Serkhej Roza reservoir.

Prof Parthasarathy started with the question: “How do we Interact?”

Human approach towards the conservation of environment is always

anthropocentric. Man always tries to see the benefit behind the

intervention/conservation and it’s a continuous process.

“Are we only changing the land form/landscape?” Setluj is not only a river

it’s the whole valley that it created. As we plan to develop we prefer to go

up. Most of the power projects on the river are located in the lower or the

middle course of the stream. But now the projects are coming up in the

mountains. In Spiti the entire course of the river has been changed through

digging tunnels in the mountains. “What is the ecological cost of such

interventions?” Of course we do not have an answer. With development in

the upstream area the downstream ecosystem also gets affected. The

pollutants and waste coming from the upstream make it far more complex.

This presentation was followed by an open forum where FMFE participants

interacted with the speakers.


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“Suno EK Nadi Ki Kahani” by Prof Neelkanth Chhaya and Prof R. Parthasarathy

DAY 4 - JAN6,

2011

(THURSDAY)

9:30am-

11.00am LECTURE Introduction “Slum networking” project by Mr Anand Patel, Additional City

Chief Engineer, AMC. Ahmedabad.

Focus of the session: Introduction to Urban poverty, Concepts of Slum

Networking and Overview of initiatives in Ahmedabad.

Mr Anand Patel gave a brief overview of urban poverty in the context of

Ahmedabad. He then explained the process of Slum networking through an

insightful documentary film and PowerPoint presentation.

11:00am-

11:30am

Tea Break

11:30am-

3.00

Draft FMFE Research Proposal – FMFE participants were suggested to

review various resource materials related to their research topics

3.00-

4:30pm

Discussion on individual research proposals

4:30pm-

6:30pm LECTURE

“Urban Water and Sanitation” – Prof Saswat Bandyopadhyay, Faculty of planning

and public policy, CEPT University, Ahmedabad.

Focus of the session: Introduction to sanitation issues and challenges in

India


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• National urban sanitation policy defines the term sanitation as safe

management of human excreta, including its safe confinement,

treatment, disposal and associated hygiene-related practices.

• Generic elements of a City wide Sanitation plan include:

• Solid waste is the most important and visible issue in a city Solid

waste can be categorized into three types – municipal solid waste,

industrial waste and hazardous waste.

• Different aspects of solid waste management include: Collection,

Transportation, Storage, Final Transportation, Treatment and

Disposal.

“Urban Water and Sanitation” – Prof Saswat Bandyopadhyay

6:30pm-

8:00pm

Screening of Film “ Barah Anna” by Raja Menon

Barah Aana is a film written and directed by Raja Menon. The title refers to

12 “Barah” in Hindustani aanas (or annas), which was a unit of Indian

currency before decimalization. The film depicts the lives of working class

Indians in a globalized milieu.

8:30pm Dinner at “Agassia” in House of MG Heritage Hotel, Ahmedabad. It is heritage

building located at the Old city of Ahmedabad.

Dinner at “House of MG”


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DAY 5 -

JAN7,2011

(FRIDAY)

7:00am-

9:00am OUTDOOR

VISIT

Visit to Ahmadabad Pole Areas/Heritage Precincts, facilitated by Mr Girish

Gupta and team of Ahemdabad Heritage Cell.

A special feature of Ahmadabad is the planning of its old city comprising of

numerous temples, mosques, neighborhoods and pols. Pols are one of the

unique features of the old city. Pols are residential clusters which comprise

a number of families belonging to a particular group, linked by caste,

profession or religion.

A view of Heritage walk in the “Pol” of Ahmedabad.

10:00am-

11:30am LECTURE

“Issues of Urban Governance” by Prof CK Koshy, Emeritus Professor IAS, (Retd.),

CEPT University, Ahmedabad.

Focus of the session: Introduction to Indian system of Governace , Tiers of

Governance, 74th

CAA and Local Governance.

Professor C.K. Koshy, in his presentation, briefly highlighted:

• India has the second largest urban system in the world, with a

population of 285 million people residing in urban areas

contributing to 60% of the total GDP. There are currently 35

metropolitan cities in India and the number will rise in subsequent

years.

• The main accompanying feature of urbanization is a shift in poverty

from rural to urban areas. The slums and informal settlements in

urban areas have increased significantly due to the increase in the

absolute number of urban poor.

• The principles of good urban governance are: Participation, rule of

law, transparency, responsiveness, consensus orientation, equity,

effectiveness and efficiency, accountability and strategic vision.

• There are five cornerstones of urban governance – funding,

governance, planning, sector policies and shapes.

This session generated plenety of discussions related to Urban Governance


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issues in India.

Prof CK Koshy, presenting “Issues of Urban Governance”

12:00pm –

1:30pm LECTURE

“Vitality of Indian cities, towards a Humane, Sustainable and Equitable City” by Mr

Yatin Pandya, FOOTPRINTS E.A.R.T.H. Ahmedabad

Focus of the session: Charecter of Indian cities, Traditions and Spaces

Mr Pandya spoke about some of the novel issues and solutions – ‘Vitality of

Indian cities – Humane, sustainable and equitable cities’. The summary of

the session is as follows;

• When any city has to be replanned, its heritage structures have to

be respected. Heritage is not only about the buildings. In India

there has always been live in heritage constituted by the local

people in a city.

• The urban spaces in Indian cities are dynamic. Manik chowk in

Ahmedadabad city is an example of multiple use of the same

space. During the day the street hosts the jewellery shops and at

might the character of the street is completely changed. It

becomes a bustling place for food joints.

• The western concept of suburbanization should not be adapted to

Indian cities, it is creating its own set of problems. Increase in

number of private vehicles and loss of green cover are the two

important drawbacks.

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2:30pm-

4:30pm PANEL

DISCUSSION

A Panel discussion on issues of Poverty, Sanitation and Governance was organized.

Main panelists were Ms Aparna Das, Sr. Technical Expert, SUH, GIZ -ASEM, Mr

Rajendra Joshi, Director, SAATH and Parivartan, Dr Regina Dube- Sr. Advisor and

Head, Sustainable Urban Habitat (SUH), GIZ-ASEM, Mr Yatin Pandya, FOOTPRINTS

E.A.R.T.H. and Mr P.K. Ghosh, IAS (retd), Ex- Municipal Commissioner, AMC.

Dr Regina Dube, Sr. Advisor and Head, Sustainable Urban Habitat (SUH),

GIZ-ASEM, New Delhi gave a detailed presentation on the concepts and

background of ‘For Me and For Everybody.’ She further presented

emerging issues and challenges in the Municipal Solid waste management

sector in India.

Mr P.K. Ghosh, IAS (retd), Ex Municipal commissioner Ahmedabad – The

term slum free cities is appropriate in presentations and theory, practically

it is impossible or difficult for India to have slum free cities. India is a

developing nation and needs a certain level of economic stability to reduce

the population living in slums. Due to lack of employment in rural areas

people migrate to urban cities aspiring better economic gains. Therefore

instead of aiming for slum free cities the city administration should focus on

better way of providing essential services in these slums.

Mr Rajendra Joshi, Director SAATH and Parivartan – During early morning

if one visits an urban area, we see open defecation near the railway tracks

and some of the fringe areas in the city. The problem of sanitation can be

solved by providing toilets. But providing toilets is not an easy task. There

are a number variables such as politics, social acceptance, sewerage lines,

etc. that have to be understood and considered. The local government and

policy makers consider slum dwellers as consumers who live on the

subsidies and grants from local body. A distinctive approach is developed in

Ahmedabad to solve the issue of slums: The Slum Networking program. This

program aims at providing basic services for the poor and the people pay

for it. NGOs act as intermediate agencies in such programs to check if the

slum dwellers pay for the services and the services are efficiently provided

to the residents.

Ms Aparna Das, Sr. Technical expert, SUH, GIZ-ASEM – She opened her talk

by raising some of the vital questions – What is the distinct feature of

urbanization in India? India is one of the few countries that is urbanizing at

a fast pace and the scale of this development is incomparable. India needs

to have its own paradigm for urbanization. She asked if our cities are

growing informally as its economy is largely informal l then is it possible to

have formal housing.

Mr Yatin Pandya, FOOTPRINTS E.A.R.T.H. Ahmedabad – One does not need

to look at the problem differently; one needs to understand what the actual

problem to solve it is. While tackling, instead of taking a cyclic path, directly

tackling the root cause of the problem can solve the issue. A yard stick has

to be developed to understand the slums in Indian context. If we compare

with the global terminologies and statistics, Pols in the old Ahmedabad city

would be labeled as slums. The systems within the informal settlement are

distinctive. They have their own set of processes to manage the waste in

the settlement by recycling and reusing.


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Panel Discussion by (left to right) Ms Aparna Das, Sr. Technical Expert, SUH, GIZ -ASEM, Mr Rajendra

Joshi, Director, SAATH and Parivartan, Dr Regina Dube- Sr. Advisor and Head, Sustainable Urban Habitat

(SUH), GIZ-ASEM, Mr Yatin Pandya, FOOTPRINTS E.A.R.T.H. and Mr P.K. Ghosh, IAS (retd), Ex- Municipal

Commissioner, AMC.

5:00pm-

6:30pm

Dr Regina Dube and Ms Aparna Das of GIZ-ASEM and FMFE participants

discussed various issues related to their Research, Contact of Host

Institutions and German-Visa.

DAY 6 - JAN8,

2011

(SATURDAY)

On the last day time was allocated for finalizing the draft FMFE research

proposals and Public Campaign design

9:30am-

11:00am

Preparation of Research Proposal

11:00am-

11:30am

Tea Break

11:30am-

1:30pm

Preparation of Research Proposal and Public Campaign

1:30pm-

2:30pm

Lunch Break

2:30pm-

4:00pm

Research Proposal review

4:00pm-

5:30pm

Public Campaign presentation

6:00 At the end of the programme, Prof Saswat presented an overall summary of

the Capacity Building workshop activities and a possible key message to

take home. He also urged that FMFE participants should take maximum

advantage of this workshop where they were exposed to several

communications and media tools. At the end he wished all FMFE

participants a safe journey back to Varanasi.

Subsequent to his concluding remarks participants were asked to give their

feedbacks on various sessions/themes conducted during the workshop.


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GLIMPES OF THE FMFE, CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP AT CEPT, AHMEDABAD

“Maximum City” by Prof Utpal

Sharma, Dean of Faculty of Planning

and Public Policy, CEPT University,

Ahmedabad

An interactive session on “Climate

Change and Cities” by Ms Soumini Raja,

Research Fellow, Faculty of Planning

and Public Policy, CEPT University,

Ahmedabad.

“Explain your city” workshop

presentation by Swati Tomar.

Presentation by Meera Nareshwar,

Program Coordinator, CEE,

Ahmedabad.

Presentation by Mr Y. B. Kausik,

Organizing Secretary, VIKSAT, CEE,

Ahmedabad.

Interaction with Mr Kartikeya

Sharabhai, Director, CEE, Ahmedabad.

“Media, Society and

transformation” workshop on

Media applications by

Madhusudhan Agarwal, Co-

founder, MAM Movies,

Ahmedabad.

Visit to Thol, a wetland ecosystem

near Ahmedabad.

An interactive session with the Mr

Prashant Pandya, Dy. Director,

Solid waste management cell,

AMC, Ahmedabad.


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Visit to the waste segregation site

in Ahmedabad.

Workshop on “Perception and

Communication” by Prof Seema

Khanwalkar, Faculty of Arts and Humanities,


“Suno EK Nadi Ki Kahani”- History of a

River, its glory, its pain, and community’s

struggle towards a pollution free river by

Neelkanth Chhaya and Prof R.

Parthasarathy, CEPT University,

Ahmedabad.

Introduction “Slum networking”

project by Anand Patel, Additional

City Chief Engineer, AMC.

Ahmedabad.

Dinner at “ Agassia” in House of MG

Heritage Hotel, Ahmedabad

“Urban Water and Sanitation” – Prof

Saswat Bandyopadhyay, Faculty of

planning and public policy, CEPT

University, Ahmedabad

Screening of Film “ Barah Anna”

by Raja Menon

Visit to Ahmadabad Pole

Areas/Heritage Precincts,

facilitated by Mr Girish Gupta and

team of Ahemdabad Heritage Cell

“Issues of Urban Governance” by Prof

CK Koshy, Emeritus Professor IAS,

(Retd.), CEPT University, Ahmedabad

“Vitality of Indian cities, towards a

Humane, Sustainable and Equitable

City by Mr Yatin Pandya, FOOTPRINTS

E.A.R.T.H. Ahmedabad

Ms.Jessyca Keil, a GIZ-Intern and key

mentor of FMFE pilot

Dr Regina Dube- Sr. Advisor and Head,

Sustainable Urban Habitat (SUH), GIZ-

ASEM


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Final Day preparation for the

research proposal at CEPT

Campus.

Individual presentation of

Campaigns designed by the

participants.

Concluding Lecture by Prof Saswat

Bandyopadhyay, Faculty of

Planning and Public Policy, CEPT

University, Ahmedabad.

“For Me and For Everybody”

workshop participants at CEE

Campus in Ahmedabad.

( Left to right ) Chetan Tyagi, Swati

Tomar, Ruchi Sukla, Meenu

Gautam, Dipankar Roy, Tiyali Bose,

Jessyca Keil, Krishana Tripathy,

Sanjay Kumar Yadav and Gargi

Joshi


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ANNEXTURE-1 : THE LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

Participants Department Email Phone

Tiyali Bose Geography, BHU [email protected] 09793639974

Swati Tomar Environment Science, BHU [email protected] 09453283491

Chetan Tyagi Environment Science, BHU [email protected] 09457631733

Dipankar Roy Geography, BHU [email protected] 08853753787

Meenu Gautam Environment Science, BHU [email protected] 09451359586

Ruchi Shukla Environment Science, BHU [email protected] 09648387746

Krishna Tripathi Environment Science, BHU [email protected] 09415936688

Sanjay Kumar Yadav Geography, BHU [email protected] 09434450091

Jessica Keil Intern, GIZ ASEM, New

Delhi

[email protected]

ANNEXTURE-2: THE SAMPLE FEEDBACK FORM

Feedback

Name: _________________________________________________________

Organization: ___________________________________________________

Accommodation: - Average Good Excellent

Logistics: - Average Good Excellent

Food: - Average Good Excellent

Session/Workshop/Lecture

Average Good Excellent

1 “Maximum City”- Overview of Cities, Structure, Forms, density and

Land use Planning processes by Prof. Utpal Sharma from CEPT

University, Ahmedabad.

2 An interactive session on “Climate Change and Cities” by Ms.Soumini

Raja from CEPT University, Ahmedabad.

3 Introductory Theme Lecture on Urbanisation, Environment and Climate

Change issues in Indian Context by Prof. Saswat Bandyopadhyay from

CEPT University, Ahmedabad

4 “Explain Your City”- Group Exercise to describe your city form,

elements.

5 Visit to CEE Campus and Talk by Mr. Kartikeya Sarabhai and Meena

Nareshwar, Visit to Water Harvesting Structures Or Visit to a

Sustainable Urban land Management case.

6 “Media, Society and transformation” workshop on Media applications


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by Madhusudhan Agarwal from MAM Movies, Ahmedabad

7 A visit to Ahmedabad Waste Management Site and Community Waste

Management Campaigns. Interactive session with Mr. Prashant

Pandya, Dy. Director, solid waste management cell, AMC, Ahmedabad.

8 Workshop on “Perception and Communication” by Prof. Seema

Khanwalkar, from CEPT University, Ahmedabad.

9 “Suno EK Nadi Ki Kahani”- History of a River, its glory, its pain, and

community’s struggle towards a pollution free river by Neelkanth

Chhaya and Prof. R. Parthasarathy from CEPT University, Ahmedabad.

10 Introduction to “Slum networking” project by Anand Patel, from AMC,

Ahmedabad.

11 “Urban Water and Sanitation” – Prof. Saswat Bandyopadhyay from


12 Screening of Film “ Bhara Anna” by Raja Menon

13 Visit to Ahmadabad Pole Areas/Heritage Precincts, facilitated by Mr.

Girish Gupta and team of Ahmedabad Heritage Cell

14 “Issues of Urban Governance” by Prof. CK Koshy from CEPT University,

Ahmedabad.

15 “Challenges to rebuild the declining traditional urban spaces in India”

by Yatin Pandya, Architect from Ahmedabad.

16 Panel discussion related to Poverty, sanitation, governance.

Special Remark: if any

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ANNEXTURE-3: EVENT SCHEDULE

Schedule poster


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ANNEXTURE–4: FMFE HANDS-ON

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Poster by Ruchi Shukla,

“Save Water, Save Life.”

Poster by Swati Tomar,

“Reuse the Past, Recycle

the Present, Save the

future.”

Poster by Meenu Gautam,

“Our Choice.”


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Explain Your City poster by

“Ruchi Shukla”

Explain Your City poster by

“Tiyali Bose”

These are a few examples of the poster made by the participants during various events.

Documents

“For Me and For Everybody” - Urban Sanitation...For Me and For Everybody From 3 – 8 January, 2011 8 evolution of cities in India. The discussion started with Harappan cities