Assisted Community Housing Initiative in Dhaka: Rethinking Role of NGOs in Affordable Housing Development. (September 2018)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Assisted Community Housing Initiative in Dhaka: Rethinking Role of NGOs in Affordable Housing Development. (September 2018)
- Main Title:
- Assisted Community Housing Initiative in Dhaka
- Authors:
- Begum, Halima
Heywood, Philip Richard
Susilawati, Connie - Abstract:
- This research highlights how the strength of a group of mobilized slum dwellers was harnessed to bring in change in their housing condition. The community, with active support from a non-government organization, was able to develop housing for themselves. The article demonstrates that assisted community housing as an approach is capable of offering a sustainable housing development solution in a resource-constrained country like Bangladesh. The article aims at examining the context and the process, and identifying the operational barriers, and it explores future prospect of this approach in a specific context. Through elaborating on the community efforts, the article sheds lights on the difficulties that were encountered by the NGO and the community, making this a shared struggling experience. It identifies that with a few policy-level interventions and changes in operational practices of different government agencies, a supportive environment can be created which will foster NGO's stewardship to making this approach produce more equitable, efficient, affordable and, above all, sustainable housing development for the urban poor.
- Is Part Of:
- Environment and urbanization Asia. Volume 9:Number 2(2018)
- Journal:
- Environment and urbanization Asia
- Issue:
- Volume 9:Number 2(2018)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 9, Issue 2 (2018)
- Year:
- 2018
- Volume:
- 9
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2018-0009-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 214
- Page End:
- 229
- Publication Date:
- 2018-09
- Subjects:
- Affordable housing -- community housing -- slum -- NGOs -- Dhaka
Social ecology -- Asia -- Periodicals
Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Asia -- Periodicals
Urbanization -- Asia -- Periodicals
Human ecology -- Asia -- Periodicals
304.20954 - Journal URLs:
- http://eua.sagepub.com/ ↗
http://www.uk.sagepub.com ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/0975425318783573 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0975-4253
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- Legaldeposit
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