Impact Assessment of Access to Basic Services for Urban Poor in Chandigarh City, India

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaswinder Kaur ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Basic Services

Impact of Urban Basic Services on Immunization Coverage In a Slum Area of Northern India

1992 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Chandra ◽  
V K Srivastava ◽  
S Nirupam
Keyword(s):  
Urban Poor ◽  
Community Organization ◽  
Child Survival ◽  
Immunization Coverage ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Northern India ◽  
Survival And Development ◽  
Basic Services ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
The Impact

The Urban Basic Services (UBS) programme was launched in some of the urban slums in the major cities of India in the year 1986. The main objective of the Urban Basic Services (UBS) Program is to improve and upgrade the quality of life of the urban poor, particularly the women and children. The major thrust area under the UBS programme includes child survival and development, learning opportunities for women and children, water and sanitation, and community organization. The present study attempts to find out the impact of the UBS Program in terms of the immunization coverage carried out in slums covered by UBS and comparing it with non-UBS slums using the 30-cIuster sampling technique as suggested by WHO. The percentage of fully immunized children was higher (16.2%) in the UBS slums compared to 10.9% in non-UBS slums. The immunization coverage of children was slightly better in the UBS slums for BCG, DPT and Oral Polio Vaccines, while for measles it was 18.6% in UBS slums and 11.9% in non-UBS slums. The dropout rates for I to III doses of DPT was much higher (36.4%) in non-UBS slums as compared to 28% in UBS slums. The availability of immunization cards was found to be higher in both mothers (16.7%) and children (22.4%) in UBS slums compared to the non-UBS ones (5.2% and 8.6% respectively). The slums thus covered under the UBS program have done marginally better in immunization but it appears that to assess the overall impact of UBS, all the components of services and not merely immunization should be assessed.

scholarly journals Inhabiting the machine

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
George Goodwin
Keyword(s):  
Financial Management ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
Slum Dwellers ◽  
Basic Services ◽  
Rising Sea Levels

<p>Like many cities across India, Chennai (capital of Tamil Nadu) has two tiers of slums — those with official government recognition and those without. Slums with official government recognition are then further categorised to either be objectionable or unobjectionable. Recognised slums receive government funding to provide new tenements and basic services on site. But recent studies have shown that 4.8 sq km of the Chennai metropolitan area are comprised of either unrecognised or objectionable slums. The current government strategy is to forcibly relocate families from unrecognised or objectionable slums to large-scale, high-rise settlement colonies on the distant outskirts of Chennai. Numerous civil society organisations, however, have documented that eviction and relocation results in extreme trauma for these families. The Transparent Chennai Project at the Institute for Financial Management and Research in Chennai argues that: “A far more reasonable strategy would be to once again implement the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Act in the spirit that it was written, and start to recognise slums and improve them in situ” (Raman and Narayan).  This thesis proposes that architectural design can improve conditions for Chennai’s urban poor without resorting to forced relocation. It argues that a new framework for slum housing can be designed that is capable of: protecting slum dwellers from environmental disasters such as rising sea levels, storm surge, and tsunamis; mitigating environmental pollution to improve hygiene; and providing economic sources of fresh water and energy through sustainable means. It further argues that this framework can be achieved in a culturally sensitive manner by acknowledging traditional and historically significant regional architectural typologies.</p>

Deprivation in slums and child poverty: study on Kolkata

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (7) ◽  
pp. 739-759 ◽  
Author(s):  
Indranil De ◽  
Tirthankar Nag
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Urban Poverty ◽  
Systematic Sampling ◽  
Income Poverty ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Basic Services

Purpose – The study attempts to look into the poverty and deprivation in slums across various social and religious groups and its bearing on the children. It not only analyses income poverty but also looks at derivation of access to basic services including water, sanitation and drainage. The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast the income and non-income deprivation of childbearing and non-childbearing households. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on a survey of 541 sample households selected from 23 slums of Kolkata, India. The authors have adopted a mixture of cluster sampling and systematic sampling technique. The slums of Kolkata have been segregated into three regions and further segregated by overlaying the population and average monthly income of slums. Slums have been selected randomly from these stratums. Households have been selected from the slums by systematic sampling method. Findings – The Muslim and backward caste households are more deprived with respect to income and access to basic services as compared to Hindu general (upper) caste. Deprivations with respect to income and basic services are more pronounced for households having child than for households not having child. Childbearing households are less likely to receive better water supply, sanitation and drainage services as compared to others due to their religious and residential identities. Slum children get affected by the complex political economy of basic service delivery. The study also finds that electoral competition has positive and political clientelism has negative impact on access to basic services. Research limitations/implications – The study is based on results obtained from survey in one city of India. Hence, these results cannot be generalized for India or for the developing countries taken together. Further studies across cities of developing countries are required to arrive at any generalized conclusion. Practical implications – The study suggests that public policies should attempt to disentangle minorities and children from the local political economy. Otherwise, deprivation and disparity even across low income households living in slums would persist. Deprivation of child bearing households would lead to a deteriorating future for the slum children. Social implications – This paper have pave the path for new generation public policy for the urban poor and minorities. Originality/value – This paper highlights the incidence of deprivation of minorities and childbearing households vis-à-vis other households in the slums. It contributes to the overall understanding on urban poverty.

scholarly journals Condemned to live with one’s feet in water?

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 534-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Schaer
Keyword(s):  
Urban Poor ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Basic Services ◽  
Vulnerable Households

Purpose – The number of poor and informal urban settlers in the world is rapidly growing, and they are increasingly vulnerable to the impacts of a changing climate. Therefore, understanding the nature and sustainability of locally adopted coping and adaptation strategies are key, yet still under-researched areas. Design/methodology/approach – Based on ethnographic research conducted in two poor, flood-prone municipalities in Pikine/Dakar, this paper identifies such coping and adaptation strategies and examines their prospects for maladaptation. Findings – The paper shows that poor urban dwellers are not mere passive spectators of climate change. With the very limited resources they have at their disposal, it is found that local actors respond to perennial flooding with very diverse strategies, which have varying degrees of success and sustainability. A key finding is that local coping and adaptation strategies are mainly maladaptive because they divert risks and impacts in time and space and have detrimental effects on the most vulnerable. Unless there is a broad assimilation of all groups in decision-making processes locally, individual and even collective coping and adaptation strategies may easily put the most vulnerable households at greater risk. The findings reveal that community-based adaptation is not a panacea per se, as it may not, by itself, compensate for the lack of basic services and infrastructure that is forcing the urban poor to cope with disproportionate levels of risk. Originality/value – The paper, hence, contributes to address a central question in scholarly debates on climate adaptation, vulnerability and disaster risk management: Are local coping strategies a stepping stone towards adaptation or are they on the contrary likely to lead to maladaptation?

scholarly journals Informalities, Volatility, and Precarious Social Mobility in Urban Slums

2021 ◽  
pp. 351-373
Author(s):  
Emily Rains ◽  
Anirudh Krishna
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Upward Mobility ◽  
Urban Slums ◽  
Formal Property ◽  
Global North ◽  
Basic Services

As developing countries rapidly urbanize, the number of people living in ‘slums’—neighbourhoods lacking formal property rights and basic services—continues to increase. Whether slum residents will ultimately share in the benefits of the cities they help build or will remain trapped in poverty is not well understood. We review empirical evidence on the potential for social mobility in today’s urban slums in order to assess prospects for upward mobility in cities of the Global South, finding evidence for limited levels of upward mobility and high levels of volatility. We then discuss the substantial public sector interventions that accompanied urbanization in the Global North. We argue that urbanization will not automatically improve prospects for mobility for the urban poor. Instead, it will be critical to implement appropriately nuanced interventions to improve opportunities for the billions residing in today’s and tomorrow’s slums.

scholarly journals Poverty no longer compounded daily: SDI’s efforts to address the poverty penalty built into housing microfinance

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Bolnick
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Community Mobilization ◽  
Slum Dweller ◽  
Full Cost ◽  
Basic Services ◽  
Sustainable Projects ◽  
Full Cost Recovery

The network of slum dweller federations known as SDI has innovated a form of local financing derived from the collective savings of urban poor groups. This addresses three shortcomings of conventional microfinance: its inability to reach very low-income people, its limited role in community mobilization for longer-term social change, and its constraints in terms of leveraging subsidies from the state and the market. SDI’s national and international urban poor funds have been used, among other purposes, for providing basic services and upgrading homes in informal settlements. Further, SDI’s model of federating urban poor communities and their funds at city, national and international levels has enabled mature federations, capable of financially sustainable projects, to cross-subsidize learning and precedent-setting projects in which full cost recovery is not feasible. This produces an outcome whereby the combined portfolios of all the national funds are able to match financial outflows with inflows. At the same time, the federations that co-manage these funds and the projects that they finance are able to escalate the production of social capital amongst the urban poor and to generate impact through changed relationships with government.

scholarly journals Health and Housing for Urban Poor in India Post Covid-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 208-216
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
The Past ◽  
Basic Services ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
To Come ◽  
Sufficient Space

The COVID-19 pandemic has built a troublesome new standard for everybody through shelter-in-place systems and physical and social distancing guidelines. Yet for billions of urban underprivileged, certain guidelines aren’t merely troublesome; they’re radically impracticable. Social and physical distancing is a severely significant acknowledgement to the pandemic COVID-19 however, it additionally implies that occupants must have sufficient space, services and social security nets to sustain such an order. It is candidly not the fact over cities in Asia, Latin America and Africa. Health facilities and services are deficient in terms of the transition from state to local level causing negligence of slum areas at global to micro-level. These dwellers of slums area accustomed to unhygienic and un-sanitized environment much on a regular basis. Majority of slums are vastly located near urban centers i.e. in and around in economically less developed countries, experiencing urbanization at a greater rate compared to more developed countries. Many countries often lack the ability to provide infrastructure like roads, affordable housing, basic services like water, sanitation etc., sufficiently for in-fluxing people in the cities due to urbanization creating a big concern for the country. Health policies need to consider equity and social justice for urban poor in order to equally uplift them in the society. The paper deals with the issues faced by the urban poor in India and the programs and policies that had been issued over time during the past which could not suffice to positively impact the downfalls of these people. The paper also highlights the health conditions of these urban poor and the areas where it has been lacking behind. The pandemic has caused the nation to come to a halt but the urban poor having no such privilege to comply with the situation are forced to thrive in degrading conditions. The research paper will help figure out trigger areas for downfall of these inhabitants of the nation and formulate strategies to counteract the same in post COVID-19 situation

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