[Urbanstudy] Need your vote for to become member of Youth Advisory Board in UN-Habitat

[Kabir Khan]

Dear colleagues, friends and comrades

Hope you're well. I feel strange to write this email, I'm stating it
upfront, I need your help to get elected to Youth Advisory Board of
UN-Habitat. I've been nominated and selected out of 600 people across the
world for this election. Now there are 60 candidates in the foray. I'm one
of them. I'm not competing with all the candidates and my representation is
 limited to Asia Pacific region. For voting here is the link:
http://unhabitat.org/yab-2015-voting/

My profile for your consideration:

*Kabir Arora:* Kabir is a passionate geographer. Having lived in eight
different cities of India, he is trying to make sense of prevailing
urbanity. To earn his livelihood, Kabir coordinates Alliance of Indian
Wastepickers – an informal network of organizations, cooperatives, and
companies working on waste management with the help of wastepickers and is
currently based in Bengaluru. With a deep interest in the dynamics of
informal economy, Kabir undertook an impact study of Inclusive Cities
Programme in Ahmedabad, Gujarat commenced by Self Employed Women’s
Association (SEWA). He firmly believes that informal economy work-force has
entrepreneurial zeal and if supported a little, they can make significant
contribution towards economic growth. In addition to his interest in
informal economy, Kabir follows the discourse on sustainability quite
thoroughly and is a Board Member of Indian Youth Climate Network (IYCN) -
torchbearer of nascent climate movement in South Asia. He participated in
Conference of Parties (COP) – 11 (Hyderabad), 12 (Pyeong Chang) of
‘Convention on Biological Diversity’, and COP 20 (Lima) of ‘United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change’. He writes regularly on the issues
of waste management and climate change on www.wastenarratives.com and
www.whatswiththeclimate.wordpress.com respectively.


*Academic Background:* Kabir graduated with B.A. (Hons.) in Geography from
Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.  Post his graduation; he had a brief stint
in primary education as a part of Gandhi Fellow profile. He worked in both
rural – Jhunjhunu/ Churu and Udaipur and urban – Mumbai government schools
as a primary teacher and assistant to Headmaster. During the fellowship, he
also enrolled himself for an online course- Post Graduate Diploma in Urban
Environment Management & Environment Law, offered by WWF-India & National
Law University, Delhi. Continuing his interest in studying cities he was
also a learner in Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore as a
part of their course Programme for Working Professionals in Urban
Development (PWP-UD).


To know more about UN- Habitat Youth Advisory Board. Please click here
<http://unhabitat.org/advisory-groups/youth-advisory-board/>. My role and
responsibility is listed in the terms of reference here.
<http://unhabitat.org/advisory-groups/youth-advisory-board/>


Please do vote and encourage your colleagues friends to do so. To know more
about the other candidates you can click on column saying "Show / hide
Candidate Profiles" after writing your name, email and selecting region. It
will take less than two minutes to vote. Last but not least, its not a spam
email. :P


Thanks for your support.




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Regards

कबीर/کبیر

Phone:00-91-96-63-427-315
Email: kabir.postbox at gmail.com
Follow me on:
Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/KaafirMasiha>, blog
<http://maleccha.wordpress.com/> & Twitter <https://twitter.com/Maleccha>

http://www.hasirudala.in

http://www.wastenarratives.com

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