Can you suggest ways the CAA could help your region?
Advocate, apply pressure to governments to implement policies to enhance the profession Provide Scholarships for needy but brilliant students. Promote internship programs among member countries. Organise competitions within the sub regions to solve peculiar problems in the society and help to secure funding for them. Create an Architecture of place, design solutions that would have a socio-cultural connection that indigenes or end users can relate to. Support of HKIA in joining Canberra Accord as full signatory status. Perhaps to publicise the role of good architecture in urban design. Provide faculty training through exchange program between South Asian countries. Provide assistance in students exchange programs between Architectural institutions of member countries. Support for our Institute in terms of reinforcing our relevance as the mouthpiece for Architects in the Region, through engagement with government. CAA should help regularize cross-boarded practices as there are many architects and Para professionals without getting proper professional architectural qualifications practicing here disregarding the laws and trying to creep into the practice of architecture. Lobby government to enforce the schedule of fees on behalf of the architects.
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