• Slum networking is a holistic approach to improving urban infrastructure, developed by Himanshu Parikh It addresses a range of facilities needed by slum dwellers: roads and footpaths storm drainage sanitation and sewerage water supply earthworks and soft landscaping street lighting solid waste management This is achieved minimal donor funding by maximizing community participation and using microcredit systems. (wikipedia.org)
  • With the exception of sanitation, the indicators on housing amenities for slum and non-slum households in most of India are more similar than most would expect. (indiatimes.com)
  • These have provided good insights on access to water and sanitation services for slum dwellers. (org.in)
  • Studies have been done for slums of Mumbai on water and sanitation provision. (org.in)
  • Sanergy's objective is to build and scale a viable sanitation infrastructure in the slums of Nairobi. (mit.edu)
  • The most effective overarching strategy to deal with problems associated with urbanisation is the two - pronged approach that focuses on broad economic growth while reforming and improving systems of governments, with a focus on service delivery (, water, sanitation, transportation and solid waste management). (un.org)
  • Hygiene practices and cleanliness of shared toilets within slums in urban Bangladesh have shown improvements due to behaviour change intervention, coupled with better sanitation hardware support for residents. (icddrb.org)
  • An icddr,b intervention that counselled people living in urban slums about maintaining hygiene and using simple sanitation tools (provided as part of the intervention) has significantly improved toilet cleanliness over six months. (icddrb.org)
  • Populous urban slums are places where people remain vulnerable to waterborne and other infectious diseases due to poor water, hygiene and sanitation," observes Dr Stephen Luby, senior author of the study and professor of medicine and senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute and the Freeman Spogli Institute and a former director at icddr,b. (icddrb.org)
  • Despite many limitations, behaviour change interventions with a little support and some guidelines for sanitation are an effective way to improve lives and environments in resource-deprived urban settlements, suggests findings from these studies, supported by Water Sanitation for Urban Poor (WSUP) through Stanford University and Stanford's Center for Innovation in Global Health. (icddrb.org)
  • Targeting impoverished people in urban slums with effective interventions such as water and sanitation interventions are needed to achieve national objectives for health. (cdc.gov)
  • These slums are characterized by dense population, poor sanitation, and contaminated water supplies, with potential adverse health impact for community residents [5] , [6] . (cdc.gov)
  • An example made from one of the cities was that basic services such as water and sanitation was reaching 90 % of the population. (lu.se)
  • CWAS conducted various surveys of slum settlements. (org.in)
  • Informal settlements in Kenya have been known to have higher rates of maternal mortality and also receive maternity services of varied quality. (frontiersin.org)
  • This study aims to add to the body of knowledge by investigating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigation strategies on access to health care services in informal settlements. (frontiersin.org)
  • While smart cities technology featured prominently, more attention was given to the plague of informal settlements, such as slums. (xinhuanet.com)
  • For those who are not familiar with it, the UN-Habitat, or the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, is the UN agency responsible for human settlements and sustainable urban development. (cairo360.com)
  • Australia supports the view that persistent poverty in rule various continues to drive urban - rural migration, and should be addressed as part of the strategies for the development of human settlements. (un.org)
  • Populations living in urban slums and temporary settlements lack access to basic health services including family planning and unmet need for modern contraception and unwanted fertility remain high. (iussp.org)
  • The rapid growth of urban settlements, especially temporary settlements and urban slums, and the heterogeneity of urban populations pose special challenges for implementing family planning and reproductive health programs. (iussp.org)
  • Urban slums are temporary settlements and hence deprived of legal provisions and municipal services. (icddrb.org)
  • More than 70% of urban residents in sub-Saharan Africa live in informal settlements or slums [3] , where basic infrastructure cannot keep pace with urbanization rates [4] . (cdc.gov)
  • However, as someone pointed out, the statistics only included legal settlements, thus not the big slum areas where hundreds of thousands of people are living. (lu.se)
  • The cost savings provide leverage to get the local government to provide tenure to slum dwellers. (wikipedia.org)
  • The slum dwellers, once given tenure, are willing to spend their own money on developing the slums as the risk of losing their investment is removed. (wikipedia.org)
  • Conclusively, the critical relevance of monthly-income in the willingness model underscores the importance of strategizing to enhance slum-dwellers' income-earning capacity to improve on the quantum of the internally-sourced intervention resources. (edu.ng)
  • At the same time, the Gujarat government no longer upgrades slums but rehabilitates and resettles these dwellers in colonies set up on the periphery of the city. (rediff.com)
  • Some 10,000 slum dwellers, squatters on the banks, had to be resettled some distance away. (rediff.com)
  • Women's Voices is a Bangalore-based organisation of slum-dwellers, not a charity organization. (indiatogether.org)
  • Though urban residents have generally lower fertility than rural dwellers, urban areas are more unequal than rural areas, and fertility of the urban poor is much higher than for wealthier urban dwellers. (iussp.org)
  • No local suburban officials have any incentives to worry about overall housing shortages or poor slum-dwellers. (planetizen.com)
  • Our own projections were that the all-India slum population would be 27.5% by 2011, so the new data comes as a pleasant surprise," Arun Kumar Misra , secretary in the ministry of housing and urban poverty alleviation, said. (indiatimes.com)
  • Housing and urban poverty alleviation minister Ajay Maken said that the high proportion - over 37% - of slum households in this last, unrecognized, category was a serious problem, and committed to his ministry extending benefits like the Rajiv Awas Yojana to such slums too. (indiatimes.com)
  • The main focus of this policy was to ensure that the vendor finds recognition to his contribution and take up their rehabilitation as a major plank for urban poverty alleviation. (organiser.org)
  • Nairobi City in Kenya is estimated to have the highest the number of COVID infections in the country with at 342 as per July 2020 with ~30% of new infections in peri-urban settings ( 7 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • The Sanergy toilet, far right, next to existing toilets at Bridge International Academy school in the Lunga Lunga slum of Nairobi. (mit.edu)
  • In Nairobi, Kenya, 60-70 % of the urban population lives in slums or slum-like conditions. (iussp.org)
  • A challenge to urban planners is how much to concentrate on megacities like Dhaka, Nairobi, and Lagos with huge slums and how much on preventing such slums in smaller cities. (bmj.com)
  • A study led by CDC's A. Waruru and colleagues examined data from clinical records of 1,676 patients, 15 years and older who initiated ART between February 2003 and February 2010 in an urban slum in Nairobi, Kenya. (cdc.gov)
  • The new numbers are significantly lower than the slum growth that had been projected for India. (indiatimes.com)
  • The census defines a slum as "residential areas where dwellings are unfit for human habitation" because they are dilapidated, cramped, poorly ventilated, unclean, or "any combination of these factors which are detrimental to the safety and health", registrar general of India C Chandramouli said. (indiatimes.com)
  • Most municipal corporations in India are loath to provide this essential service because that it will legalise their tenure. (rediff.com)
  • The thesis is based on two ethnographic field studies done in urban slums of India and it is grounded in the conceptual frameworks of Community Informatics, Communicative Ecology and Communities of Practices. (mobileactive.org)
  • And the community interested in urban health is growing, and both China and India now have plans for healthy cities. (bmj.com)
  • Community Approach to Integrated Basic Services Promoting Health and Livelihood for the Urban Poor - UNCHS Pilot Project: Lucknow, Rajkot, Visakhapatnam (Government of India - HABITAT, 1999, 90 p. (nzdl.org)
  • 18 years, selected by random sampling from an updated household list of a randomly-selected sector of the service area of the Urban Health Centre in Chetla, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. (banglajol.info)
  • Of the 15 million inhabitants of Dhaka, an estimated six million people live in Dhaka city's urban slums and use toilets shared by multiple households. (icddrb.org)
  • Urban slums amid high rise buildings in Dhaka city. (icddrb.org)
  • His Excellency Honorable Mr Justin Lee, High Commissioner, Australian High Commission, Dhaka, attended as the special guest and in his brief speech emphasized the need for supporting capacity building and health services development. (brac.net)
  • We used population based infectious disease surveillance to characterize mortality rates in residents of an urban slum in Kenya. (cdc.gov)
  • Long-term Retention and Predictors of Loss to Follow-up in an ART Program in an Urban Slum in Kenya. (cdc.gov)
  • Covid-19 has further highlighted the challenges facing the informal urban colonies, particularly impacting the learning of children. (gulfnews.com)
  • While many new arrivals in the informal neighborhoods of cities are rural-urban migrants, much of this growth will be due to the larger number of births than deaths among urban residents. (iussp.org)
  • Affected communities near the reserve have limited employment opportunities due to their isolation and have minimal collaboration with the Informal Settler's Network (ISN) and Federation of the Urban Poor (FEDUP). (sdinet.org)
  • Bangkok (AsiaNews) - Klong Toey is one of Thailand's most populous slums, one of the largest in Asia. (asianews.it)
  • Slum Networking - A Holistic Approach for Improvement of Urban Infrastructure and Environment The magic of slums, by Priya Florence Shah, Humanscape, VOL VI, 1 January 1999. (wikipedia.org)
  • The biggest problem in iconic slums like Dharavi is an absence of services and infrastructure, most notably, indoor toilets. (shelterforce.org)
  • Instead, we have highly developed bureaucratic systems and organizations that provide services and maintain the infrastructure of the city. (shelterforce.org)
  • Continued economic growth, which generates benefits for urban inhabitants (for example jobs, income, investment opportunities), is dependent on the capacity of cities to provide sufficient infrastructure to meet the needs of business and individuals. (un.org)
  • The slum populations in individual cities like Mumbai was also lower than expected, Mishra said. (indiatimes.com)
  • Of the metros, Mumbai has the highest proportion of slum-dwelling households (41.3% of its population). (indiatimes.com)
  • In the slums of Mumbai one thing is immediately evident: the Indian understanding of "slum" and the American one are radically different. (shelterforce.org)
  • The evidence from Indore City is that two years after the upgrade programme the slums are no longer recognisable as slums. (wikipedia.org)
  • Slums are a curse and blessing in fast urbanising Africa. (ipsnews.net)
  • Previous research has indicated that pandemics, such as Ebola in West Africa, can devastate the provision of maternal health services in low-resilience health systems ( 2 - 4 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • It's filmed on location in a slum in Johannasburg, South Africa and is part-documentary and part sci-fi thriller about a secret agent whose been infected by alien biotechnology and must go on the run from the oppressive government into "District Nine", an internment camp where "non-humans" have been forced to live since landing on Earth nearly 30 years ago. (orwelltoday.com)
  • The IUSSP organized a panel session* on Family planning, fertility and urban welfare in the rapidly growing cities of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: Policy Implications during the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) in Kigali, Rwanda on 14 November. (iussp.org)
  • The session emphasized the important contributions of family planning to urban welfare in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia and reviewed the challenges and opportunities of working in rapidly growing cities. (iussp.org)
  • Zeba Sathar (Senior Associate and Country Director, Population Council Pakistan), set the stage by focusing on the rapid urbanization of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia and its consequences for urban populations. (iussp.org)
  • By 2040, the urban population is expected to exceed the rural population in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia and reach 60% in 2050 (see graph). (iussp.org)
  • Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia exhibit the highest rates of urban population growth, currently estimated at 3.8% per year for sub-Saharan Africa (doubling every 18 years), and 2.4% per year for South Asia (doubling every 29 years). (iussp.org)
  • According to Eliya Zulu, 60% of urban population growth in sub-Saharan Africa, will be due to births rather than immigration. (iussp.org)
  • There should soon be some for Africa, and the next International Conference on Urban Health will be held in Kampala in November. (bmj.com)
  • By 2030, more than half of the population of sub-Saharan Africa is expected to live in urban areas [2] . (cdc.gov)
  • In Africa south of the Sahara, 61.7% live in slums. (lu.se)
  • The B-Active project designed by the Bhubaneshwar Smart City Limited (BSCL) aims to reinvent the city's open spaces and find solutions to a number of other urban issues. (afd.fr)
  • In the context of equitable service delivery, CWAS believes that there is a need to focus on slums. (org.in)
  • Roughly 1.37 crore households, or 17.4% of urban Indian households lived in a slum in 2011, data released by the registrar general and census commissioner's office showed. (indiatimes.com)
  • Over 70% of slum households get their water from a tap but just half get water inside their homes. (indiatimes.com)
  • two out of three slum households have a toilet within the premises, while slightly fewer have a mobile phone. (indiatimes.com)
  • More than one in five urban households in Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, West Bengal and Maharashtra lives in a slum. (indiatimes.com)
  • Among all million-plus cities, Vishakhapatnam has the highest proportion of slums (44.1% of households). (indiatimes.com)
  • Given the enormous and on-going urban growth occurring in the countries of the Global South, and the increasing numbers of poor households living in sub-standard housing, this paper searches for sustainable housingsolutions and their subsequent applications for low-income households. (omicsonline.org)
  • So thousands of poor households will be forced to double-, triple-, and quadruple up in overcrowded housing units -- that is, slums. (planetizen.com)
  • During the 4-day assembly last week, Egypt was proudly selected for a 4-year term on the organisation's executive board, acknowledging our nation's countless efforts over the years in urban development and other fields. (cairo360.com)
  • The result will be acute housing shortages that create the nation's largest slums in California. (planetizen.com)
  • What they do not realize is that these policies will inexorably create the nation's largest slums in California. (planetizen.com)
  • At the city and community level, CWAS has studied gaps as well as opportunities to improve service provision. (org.in)
  • Efforts are needed to ensure provision of effective, high-quality care across health services. (ennonline.net)
  • While health management information systems continue to develop, periodic health facility surveys like the Service Provision Assessment (SPA) provide information to monitor progress and target interventions. (ennonline.net)
  • As the use of health facilities along the continuum of care for women and children increases globally, efforts are needed to focus on the provision of effective, high-quality care across services to end preventable maternal and child morbidity and death. (ennonline.net)
  • The Service Provision Assessment (SPA) is a health facility survey that provides a comprehensive overview of a country's health service delivery. (ennonline.net)
  • It is one type of survey proposed by The Demographic and Health Surveys Program, one of the principal sources of international data on the provision of health services. (ennonline.net)
  • Provision of care and selected services can be captured through health management information systems at lower administrative levels, even at the facility level, and at more frequent intervals. (ennonline.net)
  • This paper presents an initial attempt to select a short list of indicators that measure readiness for and provision of highly effective interventions and proposes to create a quality of care index (QOCI) - one singular measure of services built from data that are available in SPA. (ennonline.net)
  • It analyses the factors of willingness to contribute diversely to improve urban service provision in selected slum communities of Lagos Megacity. (edu.ng)
  • The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has tackled this by disconnecting tenure from the provision of such services. (rediff.com)
  • As urban sprawl has been spurred on by a steady flow of migrants around the world, public budgets and services have struggled to keep up. (xinhuanet.com)
  • Local governments might strive for higher urban densities, and the preventing of urban sprawl. (omicsonline.org)
  • Microcredit schemes mobilise this funding and allow slum housing to be connected to sewers and water systems and for slums to be landscaped and lit. (wikipedia.org)
  • Back then, when the 78-unit complex was put at the end of an unlit, unpaved, dead-end street, a housing official warned that the neighborhood could become 'instant slums. (chicagotribune.com)
  • The main question is whether affordable housing for the urban poor and the need for sustainable housing and urban development can be combined. (omicsonline.org)
  • The medical model of improving global health concentrates on health systems, the health workforce, and essential medicines, whereas the "health for all" model concentrates on urban planning, transportation, housing, and socioeconomic factors. (bmj.com)
  • The resulting massive increase in overcrowded slum housing is inevitable as long as all decisions about how many units are permitted remain with local governments. (planetizen.com)
  • The Slum Networking Project (SNP) was implemented from 1996-2009 collaboratively by the AMC, slum communities and NGOs, which also helped communities to raise funds to upgrade slums. (rediff.com)
  • In five of the seven countries included, WASH was the highest-scoring service (Bangladesh, Haiti, Malawi, Nepal and Senegal), ranging from 66% to 81% of facilities with basic WASH services. (ennonline.net)
  • Conversely, the immunisation service was the lowest scoring area in three countries (Bangladesh, Malawi and Nepal) and the second lowest-scoring domain in the DRC. (ennonline.net)
  • Bangladesh Journals Online (BanglaJOL) is a service to provide online publication of Bangladeshi journals. (banglajol.info)
  • While welcoming the report, Special Secretary, School Education Department, Punjab Dr Suhail Shahzad viewed that the mapping of urban slums in development framework is not representative, especially considering the population density and one needs to devise a structure for KAS so that that the government could establish schools according to the proportion of population there. (gulfnews.com)
  • This report will be of great help to the government of Pakistan and development partners to work on urban resilience and development. (gulfnews.com)
  • The diminishing resource-capacities of governments for intervention-cum-development purposes vis-à-vis the threats of exacerbating degeneration of existing slums, driven by uncontrollable influx of immigrants, motivated this research. (edu.ng)
  • The Urban Development ministry, under Jagmohan and later Anantha Kumar and now, Bandaru Dattatreya has been working on the policy for the last three years. (organiser.org)
  • The concept of Smart Cities featured prominently in Quito, including the use of new technologies in urban development. (xinhuanet.com)
  • Aoun echoed other experts in explaining that the worldwide spread of technology and its runaway development are essential to the democratization of solutions to urban problems. (xinhuanet.com)
  • This makes much of the functional technological applications of urban development moot, since they rely on at least some level of accessible and reliable data. (xinhuanet.com)
  • Measures concerning the physical development of neighbourhoods, such as urban density and connectivity are equally as important as measures concerning community development. (omicsonline.org)
  • urban research and capacity development. (cairo360.com)
  • To quote an excerpt from the statement, this was in "recognition of the Egyptian government's efforts to implement urban planning and development projects to build new cities, eliminate slums, and rehabilitate areas unsuitable for habitation. (cairo360.com)
  • The Sustainable Development Goals include both health (Goal 3) and sustainable cities (Goal 11), but the health goal, with its emphasis on universal health coverage and disease, is dominated by the medical model, while the cities' goal belongs to urban planners and doesn't mention health. (bmj.com)
  • ADB supports projects in developing member countries that create economic and development impact, delivered through both public and private sector operations, advisory services, and knowledge support. (adb.org)
  • Anela All roads in Masiphumelele lead past the Pink House, a community services center managed by Catholic Welfare Development (CWD). (sdinet.org)
  • Topics mainly discussed related to the New Urban Agenda adopted in 2016 and to the UN Sustainable Development goals. (lu.se)
  • Integrated child development services (ICDS : a study of some aspects of the system. (who.int)
  • The 2001 data had set India's slum population at 15% of the total population. (indiatimes.com)
  • Over a third of India's slum population lives in its 46 million-plus cities. (indiatimes.com)
  • It issues a no-objection certificate for these services to all the population on the premise that in doing so, the health of the city as a whole can be better ensured. (rediff.com)
  • Urban vending is not only a source of employment but it also provides affordable services to the majority of urban population. (organiser.org)
  • Rural population comprises about 76 per cent while urban cons titutes about 24 per cent. (who.int)
  • Also urban population is increasing quite fast. (who.int)
  • The vast majority of this population growth will take place in urban areas. (iussp.org)
  • Urbanisation, said Jo Ivey Boufford, president of the International Society for Urban Health, at a C3 breakfast seminar last week , is one of the four great challenges to health along with climate change, aging of the population, and the epidemiological shift from infectious disease to non-communicable disease. (bmj.com)
  • Therefore, the cheapest way to provide sewerage to a city is to build major sewers through the slums and connect the higher (and usually richer) areas of the city to them. (wikipedia.org)
  • Furthermore, the old scale was not both urban and rural areas (40% and tested for its reliability and validity. (who.int)
  • Why focus on family planning in urban areas? (iussp.org)
  • Most of the emphasis and funds for family planning and reproductive health have focused on rural areas, yet investment in urban areas has the potential to achieve enormous gains for urban health, education, food security, living conditions, employment and incomes. (iussp.org)
  • What have we learned about working in urban areas for informing the long-term success of these programs? (iussp.org)
  • Ilene Spiezer (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) focused on the hurdle's poor women, adolescents and youth in urban areas face adopting family planning and accessing sexual and reproductive health care. (iussp.org)
  • Recent urban health surveys indicate a rise of approximately 6% in teenage pregnancies in non-slum areas. (thedailystar.net)
  • Family planning efforts should focus not only on slum areas but also on other vulnerable groups residing outside these areas in urban regions. (thedailystar.net)
  • While recent studies have examined childhood mortality rates in rural or peri-urban areas [11] , [12] . (cdc.gov)
  • Given the estimate that in 2050, 70 % of all people will live in urban areas it is obvious that all countries will face challenges to handle this transition and we better share experiences in doing so. (lu.se)
  • In addition, training emergency medical service staff for trauma triage is essential, and at least one tertiary hospital is required in every major city in the Suez Canal and Sinai areas to decrease trauma-related mortality. (bvsalud.org)
  • Results: A total of 1568 patients were mapped with most being from the Balimo Urban ( n = 252), Gogodala Rural ( n = 1010) and Bamu Rural ( n = 295) local level government (LLG) areas. (who.int)
  • It is no longer enough to measure the coverage of reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition (RMNCHN) interventions without considering whether the services provided by facilities are adequate. (ennonline.net)
  • Maternal nutrition, lactation and infant growth in urban slums. (who.int)
  • However, Census authorities were treating with skepticism the unexplained spurt in slum populations across cities in Andhra Pradesh. (indiatimes.com)
  • What aspects of the diverse urban populations complicate the task of comprehending and addressing their needs? (iussp.org)
  • While the wiki-city metaphor is easily overdone, these slums succeed to the degree they do because of the capacities of the individuals who live in them and their expectation that they can solve problems together. (shelterforce.org)
  • Due to heavy urban migration, city slums are continuing to spread. (lu.se)
  • Numerous technological solutions have been suggested for how people could interact with their urban environment as the foundation of smart cities. (xinhuanet.com)
  • For example] we have cases of other people suffering from other diseases not going to health services as usual. (circleofblue.org)
  • A third of water pumps are broken at any given time and only 29 percent of people have access to sanitary services. (circleofblue.org)
  • The trick for those interested in urban health is to work with those people to do what they are going to do anyway but help them to factor in health. (bmj.com)
  • These limitations of resources put people in urban slums at risk of many health hazards. (icddrb.org)
  • With moving images, it is possible to bring alive a distant world, for urban people to understand rural people and agriculture. (governancenow.com)
  • I make posters and put them up in the slums and villages. (indiatogether.org)
  • this is a major determinant of health and large villages, as well as those with and The updated scale included all the nutritional status as well as of mortal- without rural health services. (who.int)
  • Most live in urban slums and remote villages. (circleofblue.org)
  • The field-based report, compiled by Indian researchers, finds that the recent top-down approaches to urban issues deliver some results but tends to exclude the urban poor. (rediff.com)
  • We did not have to go too far to meet the poor because our school is only a few blocks away from the biggest slum area in Bangkok called Klong Toei," said Sister Orapin recalled, speaking to Radio Veritas Asia . (asianews.it)
  • Her efforts have drawn attention to the urban poor in general and Dalit women in particular. (indiatogether.org)
  • That's how I got into the work of understanding the urban poor. (indiatogether.org)
  • Who are these urban poor and where have they come from? (indiatogether.org)
  • The technology can be used in field hospitals, refugee camps and urban slums in countries with poor energy supplies. (who.int)
  • Despite national encouragement for Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) methods such as implants and Intrauterine devices (IUDs), only 3% of women opt for these services. (thedailystar.net)
  • In a lecture for Engineers Without Borders (UK), Himanshu Parikh explained that his research into the growth of slums had led to the realisation that slums always develop along natural drainage paths. (wikipedia.org)
  • State governments are unwilling to admit to their being more slums in their cities because then they will have to provide these slums basic services like water and drainage," Maken said. (indiatimes.com)
  • Transmission of CHIKV in an Urban Slum, Brazil community of Salvador and assessed the proportion Serologic Evaluation of cases in which these infections were symptomatic. (cdc.gov)
  • So get ready for enormous increases in slums, California! (planetizen.com)
  • While sharing the findings of the report, it was told during the meeting that the existing urban schools are functioning on rural frameworks. (gulfnews.com)
  • In the Gogodala region (Balimo Urban and Gogodala Rural LLGs), high-rate clusters occurred closer to the town of Balimo, while low-rate clusters were located in more remote regions. (who.int)
  • Due to government restrictions, daily wage earners in urban centers have lost income and livelihoods. (circleofblue.org)
  • Broad-based economic growth coupled with poverty reduction strategies is crucial to creating the resources for poverty and slum reduction. (un.org)
  • This was revealed in the findings of a survey conducted in Katchi Abadis (KAS) or urban slums of the 4 districts: Karachi West, Korangi, Malir and Lahore earlier in May this year. (gulfnews.com)
  • Recognizing these limitations, the MoH chose to take an active approach to scaling up CTC and in 2006, formed the CTC Advisory Service (CAS) in partnership with Concern Worldwide. (ennonline.net)
  • Being RWI's Team Leader for Inclusive Societies, I have mainly participated in seminars and sessions related to this topic such inclusive urban planning and local governance processes. (lu.se)
  • Those who think about urban health have conceptualised it in four ways: density, diversity, complexity, and inequality. (bmj.com)
  • Density can be good, but clearly the density of slums is bad for health. (bmj.com)
  • These cookies are used to improve your experience and provide more personalized service to you. (gulfnews.com)
  • Google collects, stores and processes information to provide users with better services. (susana.org)
  • The census counted slums notified under various acts, those recognized by governments but not notified, and those that were in no way accepted by state governments, but fit the definition of a slum. (indiatimes.com)
  • Nine factors, namely age, gender, employment, tenure, monthly income, and four others, were hypothesized as showing no significant influence on each of the three-fold dimensions of willingness to contribute to improving urban services. (edu.ng)
  • Less than half of women reported reduced access due to fear of contracting Coronavirus, Deprioritization of health services, economic constraints, and psychosocial effects were reported due to the imposed lockdown and curfew. (frontiersin.org)
  • In former colonial countries regular government health services [ 6 ]. (who.int)
  • The project is consistent with ADB's country partnership strategy for Mongolia, 2017-2020, and with the core themes of green, competitive, and inclusive cities of ADB's Urban Operational Plan. (adb.org)
  • The UN hailed the New Urban Agenda as a roadmap to offer equal opportunities to all citizens in cities, to improving air quality, and to improving basic services. (xinhuanet.com)
  • According to Duhalde, it is a priority for Habitat III's vision to be translated into policies that improve the general of quality of life, with an emphasis on initiatives which promote fair access to quality land, basic services, removing homelessness and projects of social integration. (xinhuanet.com)
  • Raising awareness of the disease and associated risk factors, providing early detection services, as well as easy access to diagnosis and treatment are required. (bvsalud.org)
  • Elias, P, Fasona, M, Babatola, O and Omojola, A (2017) Factors Influencing Willingness to Pay for Improved Urban Services in Selected Slum Communities: Empirical Evidence From Lagos Megacity. (edu.ng)
  • The aim of this master's thesis is to identify design challenges and opportunities for mobile based community communication services for marginalized communities belonging to Indian urban slums. (mobileactive.org)
  • Regardless of their legal status, these services are vital steps towards integrating them with the wider urban community. (rediff.com)
  • One local urban planning outfit refers to them as "wiki-cities" because of their user-generated character. (shelterforce.org)
  • The recent promotion of "15-minute cities" that will inform rezoning and redevelopment to put all essential services within a 15-minute walk of every residence. (climatedepot.com)
  • Diversity can make cities "rich and exciting," but can also make it difficult to deliver services. (bmj.com)
  • This improves conditions in slum colonies and incorporates them with the larger fabric. (rediff.com)
  • Making Public in a Privatized World: The Struggle for Essential Services. (wikipedia.org)
  • I just attended the 9th World Urban Forum in Kuala Lumpur and many thoughts and learnings come to my mind on the themes elaborated upon and why these have been chosen and who is talking. (lu.se)
  • Today, an estimated 863 million live in slums around the world. (lu.se)
  • NEW DELHI: Nearly one in every six urban Indian residents lives in a slum, newly released Census data shows. (indiatimes.com)
  • RMNCH indicators covered five services - family planning, antenatal care (ANC), delivery care, immunisation and child curative care. (ennonline.net)
  • The urban street vendor has been an integral part of Indian economy. (organiser.org)