Workshops

New Paths for Building Sustainable Cities: The Potential of Collective Land Management Based on the Community Land Trust

Clique aqui para Português As part of the UN’s Urban October’s Urban Circuit 2022 and World CLT Day 2022, the Favela Community Land Trust Project* held the [...]

Join CatComm at 2019 Ecocity World Summit in Vancouver

The Ecocity World Summit is the longest-standing international summit that addresses building cities in balance with nature. This year, the Summit will take place in [...]

Favela Community Land Trust Workshops, Part 3: Presentation to Public Authorities and Final Reflections

In Rio de Janeiro, from August 23 to 27, 2018, Catalytic Communities (CatComm) organized a series of workshops on Community Land Trusts (CLTs), together with a special [...]

Recycling to Stop Landslides: Second Sustainable Favela Network Exchange Visits Morro dos Prazeres

The Sustainable Favela Network (SFN) is a project of Catalytic Communities (CatComm) designed to build solidarity networks, bring visibility, and develop joint actions to [...]

Favela Community Land Trust Community Workshop: Methodology and Practice

Clique aqui para Português In Rio de Janeiro, from August 23 to 27, 2018, Catalytic Communities (CatComm) organized a series of workshops on Community Land [...]

2nd Sustainable Favela Network Exchange Visits Vale Encantado

The Sustainable Favela Network (SFN) is a project of Catalytic Communities (CatComm) designed to build solidarity networks, bring visibility, and develop joint actions to [...]

Favela Community Land Trusts

Catalytic Communities’ newest project has the potential of offering a land tenure security model for informal settlements around the world. We are studying the [...]

Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD)

Catalytic Communities engages in Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD). Here we highlight some of the primary differences between the traditional deficit-based community [...]

Vidigal Debate Series: 3rd Debate

[Click here for debates: 1, 2, and 4] On Tuesday May 6, the Vila Vidigal Neighborhood Association, Catalytic Communities, the Intersectoral Forum of Vidigal, Albergue da [...]

Evictions Resistance Techniques

Since November 2010 Catalytic Communities has been carefully documenting, tracking and following evictions patterns in favelas across the city. As a result, we have become [...]

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