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01/11/2022

Interested in working with us? Look at some exciting open positions and write to [email protected] with detailed CV and expected Salary.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11gEYI7UP3ozVJFhcjJDPZVkrKnTaIHf5

30/05/2022

Our new video on COVID-19 vaccinations.....the last mile connectivity!

This video documents what it takes to insure we reach the last mile connectivity on vaccinating people. Speaking in this video are staff persons from SPARC, ...

30/05/2022

Listen to Sheela Patel speaking on how communities explore their own solutions.

“We have learnt from our own experience, that if we don’t make ourselves known, make our voices heard, tell everybody what we want to do, we will continue fo...

26/05/2022

Please see our two open positions for immediate hiring. Please see the details here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11gEYI7UP3ozVJFhcjJDPZVkrKnTaIHf5

20/08/2021

Registration -
https://us02web.zoom.us/.../reg.../WN_DiUoek46RaiLTpsRzntN7Q
BReUCom (Building Resilience Urban Communities), intends to address the issue of Resilience and Climate Change by means of discussions and presentations around thematic areas like Traditional Culture and Wisdom in Resilience, use of Technology and Planning, Informality at the center of resilience is organising a on - “Building Resilient Urban Communities in Transforming Cities”
22nd -24th September, 2021 from
10.30 AM-2.30 PM CEST
2.00 -6.00 PM IST
https://sparcindia.org/BReUComConferenceSchedule.html
We have an exciting group of discussants and the session concludes with moderated discussions along with Q&A session.
Building Resilient Urban Communities (BReUCom) is a project funded under EU Erasmus+ Program in the field of Capacity Building in Higher Education.

08/07/2021

Tune in to a webinar: Voices for Climate Action: to hear Sheela Patel speak about the transformative power of locally-led climate action. Live now.

Asia Pacific Climate Week 2021 Voices for Climate Action: The transformative power of locally-led climate action (Side Event)

02/07/2021

The has driven profound changes in how people live and work. Vast real estate investments in homes and offices are no longer a safe bet. Financing is becoming harder to acquire, and insurance is becoming costlier and more difficult to obtain. As we think about building for climate change, how might this shift in real estate present an opportunity to think differently? How might global construction firms, material scientists, insurance and real estate magnates work together to offset climate and environmental risk? How can we redesign our built environment to put us on the path to net zero?

Watch our founder, Sheela Patel in this The New York Times debate below:
https://www.nytimes.com/article/netting-zero.html

Come to get informed. Leave inspired. Join us for our latest episode of Netting Zero, The New York Times's virtual event's series on climate change. The Covi...

25/06/2021

In a guest blog for International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), Sheela Patel continues her discussion of the priorities and needs of living in informal settlements and , highlighted by . In this blog, she explains why women are ideally placed to map vulnerability to in their community and city.

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Guest blogger Sheela Patel continues her discussion of the priorities and needs of women living in informal settlements and tenements, highlighted by COVID-19. In this blog, she explains why women are ideally placed to map vulnerability to climate change in their community and city

17/06/2021

P2P training session at at 4:30PM IST:
Climate 101: climate science for community-based practitioners with International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and Slum Dwellers International - SDI.

Working in climate adaptation means applying complicated science to everyday livelihood activities. It can be intimidating. This learning session is designed as a two-way conversation between community practitioners and climate scientists.

The 15th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA15) to discuss how we can drive ambition for a climate-resilient future.

15/06/2021

Workshop Alert: Today at 4:30 PM IST!

Locally Led Action Principles - how can we see them driving real impact? with International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), World Resources Institute, International Centre for Climate Change & Development (ICCCAD) and Slum Dwellers International - SDI.

This is the first of two sessions exploring the locally led adaptation principles in depth: what does success look like and how do we make it happen? This session will explore principles 1-4 of the “Principles for Locally Led Adaptation”

Register and tune in here:

The 15th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA15) to discuss how we can drive ambition for a climate-resilient future.

14/06/2021

Slum Dwellers International - SDI. at , hosted by International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), BRAC, International Centre for Climate Change & Development (ICCCAD) and more. - https://mailchi.mp/sdinet/monthly-update-april2021-4942941

02/06/2021

Going down memory lane to revisit Apna Street: a series of stories about the efforts of a group of women and men, who lived on the pavements of Byculla in Mumbai (Bombay), India to achieve their dream - a real Pucca house of their own.

The series reflects the intensity and richness of the lives of these remarkable people and touches upon the work of and SPARC, along with the and Jockin Arputham.

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