KHARTOUM WORKSHOP

PROGRAM

FRIDAY JUNE 24, 2005

9:00-9:15
Welcome
Balghis Badri, Director, Institute for Women, Gender and Development Studies,
Ahfad University

Afaf Reheiman, Coodinator, UNFPA Projects, Ahfad University

9:15-10:00 Introduction
The Problem of Poverty, The Politics of Comparative Urban Research
Kamran Asdar Ali, University of Texas at Austin & Martina Rieker, American University in Cairo

10:00-12:00 Mapping the Terrain: Urban Poverty in Khartoum and Karachi
Discussant: Martina Rieker, American University in Cairo

Presenters:
Mohamed Kabag, Urban Poverty Network (Khartoum)
Urban Poverty: The Case of Khartoum

Arif Hasan, Architect, Urban Planner and Author (Karachi)
Participatory Development: Two Case Studies from Karachi

Khalid Hasan Idris, Urban Poverty Network (Khartoum)
Resource Distribution and Urban Growth

12:00-1:30 The Problem of Social Capital
Discussant: AbdulMaliq Simone, New School for Social Research (New York)

Presenters: Amna A. Rahama, Peace Network (Khartoum)
The Problem of Social Capital

Haris Gadzar, Collective for Social Science Research (Karachi)
Citizens or Denizen: the Violence of Social Capital

1:30-2:30 Lunch

2:30-3:45 Roundtable I: Refugees, Displaced Populations and "New" Immigrants
Discussants: Idris Elhassan, Khartoum University & Haris Gadzar, Collective for Social Science Research (Karachi)

3:45-4:00 Tea

4:00-6:00 Development & the Construction of Poverty: Rethinking Urban Lives
Discussant: Paul Wani, Khartoum University

Presenters:
Shama Dossa, Agha Khan University
Stories of Poverty & Health from Sindh: Voices in a void?

Mohamed Elmagzoub, Urban Poverty Network (Khartoum)
Building the Livelihoods of Urban Poor

Razi ul Hasan, Activist and Researcher (Karachi)
Karachi Five Town's Problems

8:00-10:00 Workshop Dinner

SATURDAY JUNE 25, 2005

9:00 -11:00 Mobility, Gender and Urban Poverty
Discussant: Shama Dossa, Aga Khan University

Presenters:
Paul Wani, Khartoum University
Urban Poverty and Mobility

Kamran Asdar Ali, University of Texas at Austin
Of Women, Work and the Public Sphere: Some thoughts on Karachi’s Urban Poor

Somia Elsayed, Sudanese Association for Environmental Conservation (Khartoum)
Gendering Urban Poverty

11:00-12:30 Marginality, Urban Violence, Governmentality
Discussant : Arif Hasan, Architect, Urban Planner and Author (Karachi)

Presenters: Niemat Makki & Mayuol Diing, Azza Women’s Association (Khartoum)
Urban Conflict and Violence

AbdulMaliq Simone, New School for Social Research
Emergency Democracy and the Capacity to Act

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30-3:00 The Question of Resources: Non Governmental Interventions.
Discussant: Ann Lesch, American University in Cairo

Presenters: Salwa El Tayeb Ali, SDA
The Experience of the SDA Project (Savings and Credit Union)

Mubina Agboatwalla, Health Oriented Preventive Education (HOPE, Karachi)
Urbanization, Poverty and Health

3:00-3:30 Tea

3:30-5:00 Roundtable II: Violence, Poverty, Urban Development in the 21st Century
Discussants: Martina Rieker, American University in Cairo & Kamran Asdar Ali, University of Texas at Austin

8:00-10:00 Workshop Dinner

SUNDAY JUNE 26

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