Pilot Implementation in Urban Slums

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BDI’s Urban Poverty research cell is on the verge of rolling out pilot initiatives in five secondary towns - Rajshahi, Faridpur, Mymensingh, Bhairab, and Khulna, with an aim to instigate a comprehensive, multi-sector upgrade of urban slums, focusing on seven major themes - tenure security and land entitlement, livelihood strategy development and access to finance, health services, schooling and child labor, access to basic utilities, disaster preparedness and climate change and community mobilization.

The interventions to be implemented during the pilots are the fruits of extensive action research carried out by BDI since April, this year. The implementation, currently funded by BRAC and WaterAid, will be coordinated by BDI. The organization will work with Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) and BRAC’s Legal Aid and Human Rights Division to explore issues such as security of tenancy and legal identity of slum residents. The lessons learnt from these pilots can help the formulation of future slum upgrading strategies that can have a positive impact on the lives of slum dwellers in Bangladesh, as well as in other parts of the world.