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The Circuitries of Spectral Urbanism: Looking Underneath Fantasies in Luanda’s New Centralities

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Publication Date: February 1, 2016
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The study of Africa’s new developments and satellite cities has been mostly led under the fundamentally aesthetic typology of ‘urban fantasies’. This provides important elements for a critique of how speculative idioms have been tainting contemporary forms of urban development across the continent, but it does not allow us to apprehend them as modes of...

Ricardo Kabila – A Relação da Formação Académica no Estrangeiro e o Enquadramento Profissional – Um exemplo de Angola”

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Publication Date: January 29, 2016
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No passados dia 29 de Janeiro, esteve no espaço do Debate a Sexta feira o Ricardo Kabila que se debruçou sobre o tema “A Relação da Formação académica no Estrangeiro e o Enquadramento Profissional – Um exemplo de Angola”. O orador na sua explanação disse que, a Educação é uma medida indispensável para a capacitação...

Despacho Governo Provincial de Luanda nº 30-16 sobre Direito Fundiario

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Publication Date: January 27, 2016
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Tendo em conta que, nos termos da alinea c) do nº2 do artigo 9º do Decreto Presidencial nº293/14, de 21 de Outubro, compete ao Governador Provincial de Luanda, assegurar a harmonização dos planos municipais e outros instrumentos de ordenamento do território.

João Carlos Luís Bandeira – Habitação Social

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Publication Date: January 25, 2016
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João Carlos Luís, Chefe da Unidade de Desenvolvimento de Pessoal, na Direcção de Recursos Humanos, da KIXICREDITO, esteve no Espaço do Debate à Sexta Feira do dia 15 de Janeiro de 2016, a partir das 15h00 no escritório sede da Development Workshop, a falar das experiencias na implementação do Projecto Kixicasa principalmente na província do...

Paul Robson – Implicações da Adaptação às Mudanças Climaticas em Angola tendo em conta a Escassez de Dados

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Publication Date: January 22, 2016
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O consultor Paul Robson, esteve no espaço do Debate a Sexta-Feira do dia 22 de Janeiro do ano em curso a falar do projecto de pesquisa sobre Adaptação às Alterações climáticas inundações e abastecimento de água nas cidades costeira. Durante a sua abordagem falou da metodologia usada no processo de recolha de dados como: o...

Allan Cain – Intervista sobre Plano de Luanda e Saneamento – Radio Ecclesia

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Publication Date: January 16, 2016
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O diretor da DW foi entrevistado em 16 janeiro de 2016 no programa ao vivo Radio Ecclesia de duas horas sábado de manhã. O tema do programa focado em desafios urbanos na cidade de Luanda, o novo plano diretor metropolitano e os problemas de saneamento basico. O novo Plano Diretor Metropolitano Luanda, lançado publicamente em...

Felisberto Capamba – O Empreededorismo Social

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Publication Date: January 8, 2016
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Felisberto Capamba, Director Executivo da Habitec, esteve no passado dia 08 de Janeiro de 2016 no Espaço de Debate à Sexta Feira, onde abordou o tema: O Empreendedorismo Social. Na sua abordagem, começou por falar da trajectória e estratégias de desenvolvimento da HABITEC e por fim fez uma abordagem sobre a participação no concurso sobre...

Communications Initiative Network – Water Resource Management under Changing Climate in Angola’s Coastal Settlements Project

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Publication Date: January 7, 2016
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The Communications Initiative recently featured Development Workshop's "Water Resource Management under Changing Climate in Angola's Coastal Settlements" on their website. DW's researchers are working with communities, reviewing archived materials, and using satellite imagery to assess and map flooding risks in Angola's economically poor coastal communities. In the context of the fact that a prolonged civil...

Opening Remarks by Allan Cain

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Publication Date: January 6, 2016
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1. Opening Remarks by Allan Cain– Director, DWSeveral times each year, DW organizes meetings like this one on housing finance. Today we think that is a good time to exchange ideas about the current economic crisis that our country is facing and its effects on housing investment. This topic is relevant particularly in the light...

Abel Basto – Fundo de Fomento de Habitação

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Publication Date: January 5, 2016
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The FFH is a state-owned, independent funding agency with its own legal personality, having been created by the Law No. 3/07 of 3 September (Basic Law for Housing Development). It has financial autonomy, and is supported by revenues from concessions and housing management, the appropriations reimbursed to the state budget, and additional funds obtained from...

Antonio Lutango – Cooperativa de Habitação – Lar do Patriota

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Publication Date: January 4, 2016
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– Manager, Cooperative Lar do Patriota (CLP) The Cooperative Lar do Patriota is funded by the contributions from its members, and when it comes to housing, the cooperative is trying to build low-income homes instead of homes for the middle-income earners. This is to give access to affordable housing to people who do not have...

Joaquim Catinda – KixiCasa Financiamento Habitacional

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Publication Date: January 3, 2016
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– Executive Director, KixiCredito KixiCredito is a micro-credit company, licensed by the National Bank of Angola under Law 13/05 of September 30 (a new law that supersedes Law 13/05 has taken effect this year; it covers the area of microfinance institutions).

Designing ‘Dream Houses’ in the fringe of development: occupants’ perception of low-cost housing in Luanda’s urban periphery

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Author: Célia Macedo
Publication Date: January 1, 2016
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This paper explores issues associated with perceptions of low-cost housing in Luanda, which despite being considered one of the fastest developing and more prospective growing cities in Africa, is struggling to cope with a growing population putting extra pressure on an already saturated urban infrastructure.

Strategies of Urban Inclusion in the Imagined Modern Luand

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Author: C.N. Silva (ed.), Governing Urban Africa,
Publication Date: January 1, 2016
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Luanda, the capital of Angola, has recently been subjected to extraordinary changes, supported by increased wealth and investments associated with the end of the war. The ideas of modernity that clearly stand out are deeply rooted in the city’s configuration and reconfiguration over the years. They inform not only the modernising perspectives and philosophy of...

Strategies of Urban Inclusion in the Imagined Modern Luand

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Author: C.N. Silva (ed.), Governing Urban Africa,
Publication Date: January 1, 2016
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Luanda, the capital of Angola, has recently been subjected to extraordinary changes, supported by increased wealth and investments associated with the end of the war. The ideas of modernity that clearly stand out are deeply rooted in the city’s configuration and reconfiguration over the years. They inform not only the modernising perspectives and philosophy of...