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Millennium Villages Project: Underlying Principles • Community empowerment through participation and leadership in design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation • Interventions based on proven, science-based research (biophysical and socioeconomic) combined with the best local knowledge • Implementing within the budget estimates • Building on existing community, government and nongovernment programs in the area • Building capacity and empowerment at the local level • Strengthening local institutions • Linking with and obtaining support from local, provincial and national governments • Consistency with national plans for interventions
Brundtland Report: 5 Key Concepts • Needs: • Essential needs of the world’s poor. • Limitations • Imposed by the state of technology and social organisation on the environment’s ability • Responsibility • The environment is held as a proxy for social equity between generations • Transformation • Sustainability is pro-development providing that it “involves a progressive transformation of economy and society • Ecological Capital • Impact of development on the quality of natural elements must be accounted for
Page 1 and 2: Towards Sustainable Human Settlemen
Page 3 and 4: Context • 6,3 billion people •
Page 5: Current low quality, low-income hou
Page 9 and 10: Experimental Work © CSIR 2006
Page 11 and 12: Conventional/fringe & hybrid techno
Page 13 and 14: Orientation • Optimum orientation
Page 15 and 16: Existing default house plan: Expens
Page 17 and 18: Sub-structure: Foundation quality i
Page 19 and 20: Super-structure: Design for modular
Page 21 and 22: Super-structure: Conventional const
Page 23 and 24: Desired Quality
Page 25 and 26: Roof assembly: Reinforced roof ring
Page 27 and 28: Services: Prefabricated plumbing re
Page 29 and 30: CSIR technology transfer: Mthimkhul
Page 31 and 32: CSIR research outcomes and impact C
Page 33 and 34: Bulk services contribution in Klein
Page 35 and 36: Conclusion • Green Building is no

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