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Confronting the crisis in urban poverty : making integrated approaches work / edited by Lucy Stevens, Stuart Coupe and Diana Mitlin.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Urban management seriesRugby, Warwickshire : ITDG Publishing, 2006Description: xx, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781853396373 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 362.5091724 STE DS0169
Contents:
Erosion control in innercity Maputo, Mozambique : sustained livelihood impact? / Kerry Selvester -- Partnership for infrastructure in the musseques of Luanda, Angola / Julian Baskin and Daniel Miji -- Displacement and eventual inclusion? IDPs in Khartoum and Kassala, Sudan / Lucy Stevens [and others] -- A professional perspective on a people's process : a history of VukuZenzele / Diana Mitlin -- Integrated development, squatters and tenants, in low-income settlements in Kenya / Michael Kinyanjui and Janet Ngombalu -- Staying afloat in a crisis : incomes and housing in Chitungwiza and Epworth, Zimbabwe / Lucy Stevens and Alex Mugova -- Assessing the impact of a microfinance programme : Orangi Pilot Project, Karachi, Pakistan / Akbar Zaidi with Mohammad Sohail, Arif Hasan and Mansoor Ali -- Integrated housing development strategies for the urban poor in Alwar city, India / Stuti Lall and Vinay D. Lall -- Understanding urban livelihoods in a secondary town in Bangladesh / Saty Ranjan Saha and Habibur Rahman.
Summary: "This book makes a case for approaches to urban development that are locally driven and which complement the vast investments and efforts of slum-dwellers themselves. It discusses a range of approaches for achieving that, focusing on practical experiences and clear lessons for the future." "Essential reading for development practitioners, donors and funding agencies, academics and students interested in NGO-supported approaches to urban development."--BOOK JACKET.
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Book Book Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore David Satterthwaite Collection 362.5091724 STE DS0265 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available DS0265
Book Book Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore David Satterthwaite Collection 362.5091724 STE DS0169 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available DS0169

Erosion control in innercity Maputo, Mozambique : sustained livelihood impact? / Kerry Selvester --
Partnership for infrastructure in the musseques of Luanda, Angola / Julian Baskin and Daniel Miji --
Displacement and eventual inclusion? IDPs in Khartoum and Kassala, Sudan / Lucy Stevens [and others] --
A professional perspective on a people's process : a history of VukuZenzele / Diana Mitlin --
Integrated development, squatters and tenants, in low-income settlements in Kenya / Michael Kinyanjui and Janet Ngombalu --
Staying afloat in a crisis : incomes and housing in Chitungwiza and Epworth, Zimbabwe / Lucy Stevens and Alex Mugova --
Assessing the impact of a microfinance programme : Orangi Pilot Project, Karachi, Pakistan / Akbar Zaidi with Mohammad Sohail, Arif Hasan and Mansoor Ali --
Integrated housing development strategies for the urban poor in Alwar city, India / Stuti Lall and Vinay D. Lall --
Understanding urban livelihoods in a secondary town in Bangladesh / Saty Ranjan Saha and Habibur Rahman.

"This book makes a case for approaches to urban development that are locally driven and which complement the vast investments and efforts of slum-dwellers themselves. It discusses a range of approaches for achieving that, focusing on practical experiences and clear lessons for the future." "Essential reading for development practitioners, donors and funding agencies, academics and students interested in NGO-supported approaches to urban development."--BOOK JACKET.

Gift of David Satterthwaite.

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