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The Lok Awaas Karmi Sammelan, a National Conference on Eco-habitat Development for All will be held at the Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, Rajghat, New Delhi in March 2012. This conference is a culmination of the Lok Awaas Yatra, a journey that has experienced and shared sustainable habitat initiatives across over 60 districts in India over the last two years.

The objective of the Lok Awaas Karmi Sammelan is to discuss the “practical ways of delivering policy changes and eco-habitat services in rural areas to ensure that millions of rural poor can take advantage of the benefits on a large scale”. The Sammelan will confer upon the best practices to derive lessons for National and State Habitat policies and arrive at recommendations for influencing decision makers and policies.

The Sammelan is an opportunity to discuss strategies for scaling up and replicating eco-habitat best practices with the help of PRI Institutions so that more and more people can have access to sustainable habitat. The impacts and implication of scaling up and its influence on the climate will be discussed for the greater good of promoting sustainable habitat development.

The Sammelan will provide a forum to policy makers to experience the learnings gained from the Yatras and derive lessons which will help in planning and managing sustainable habitat development via the various rural housing processes. The aim is to reduce the vulnerability at the local level, and generate new opportunities for poverty reduction while responding to climate change concerns through national and global support.

For further information and registration contact:

B-32, TARA Crescent, Qutub Institutional Area, New Delhi 110016, India
Tele: 011 -6542-8857, 2613-4103, 2613-4103
Fax: 91 (11) 2613-0817