Abstract
People usually migrate from rural to urban areas (towns and cities) being compelled by factors like the growing number of landless households and lack of job opportunities. These people, who are already destitute, do not have a decent place to live in. Finding no other alternative, they begin to live in slums where they do not have access to various services including water supply, sanitation, waste collection or infrastructure that are being provided by municipalities. Thus, they are compelled to suffer from different kinds of disease, crime and natural disasters. In Bangladesh, different organizations including the government, NGOs, and donors have been implementing various initiatives for upgrading the living condition of the people in slums and reducing poverty. This chapter discusses a number of urban slum upgrading good practices in Bangladesh and their impact on the livelihood of slums.
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WASA’s major concern with supplying water to slum dwellers was that they were not only poor but transient. They came and went from the slums whenever they wished, unlike the owner of a house. Essentially, the DSK provided the legal personhood and permanent office that the slum dwellers did not have. So, DWASA felt confident in dealing with DSK in place of the slum dwellers themselves. DSK, for its part, was satisfied, through discussions with the slum dwellers that they would pay for water supply if they were given reliable service (Jinnah 2007).
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For more details about the SHAHAR project, please visit http://www.ifpri.org/dataset/bangladesh-2.
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The interim government took the decision on 17 March 2007.
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Panday, P.K. (2020). Urban Slum Upgrading Best Practices in Bangladesh. In: The Face of Urbanization and Urban Poverty in Bangladesh. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3332-7_6
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