- Title
- Building resilience of urban slum settlements: a multi-sectoral approach to capacity building
- Creator
- Ahmed, Iftekhar
- Relation
- Habitat for Humanity Australia (HFHA) Project Report
- Relation
- http://harbureau.org/#publications
- Publisher
- Architects Without Frontiers (AWF)
- Resource Type
- report
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- This report has been prepared by Architects Without Frontiers (AWF) under the project Building Resilience in Urban Slum Settlements funded by the AusAID Innovations Fund and implemented in partnership between Habitat for Humanity Australia (HFHA) and Habitat for Humanity Bangladesh (HFHB), together with a local partner NGO, Participatory Development Action Program (PDAP). This was a 1-year pilot project implemented from July 2012 to June 2013. Technical support was provided by AWF and Arup. This report provides an overview of the project and presents the key lessons learnt that have implications for future work. The project was targeted at an urban slum community of 650 households known as Talab Camp in Mirpur in the north-western part of Dhaka. During the 1947 India-Pakistan partition, Hindu-Muslim communal strife led to large numbers of Muslim refugees, particularly from the Indian state of Bihar, to flee into East Pakistan. When East Pakistan seceded from West Pakistan and formed Bangladesh in 1971, the Biharis, who sided with West Pakistan at that time, were contained in refugee camps by the Bangladeshi government to separate them from the mainstream Bangali population and thereby avoid potential ethnic conflict; hence the name “camp”. There were a number of other such “Bihari camps” around Talab Camp. Being an ethnic community, it still faced the difficulty of assimilation into the mainstream Bengali society even after more than 65 years, despite being granted Bangladeshi citizenship in 2008. Given that this was a marginal community, and hence poor and vulnerable, there was a strong rationale to implement the project there. Additionally as the community was protected under the Geneva Convention for Refugees, it provided an opportunity to work there as it was safe from eviction drives.
- Subject
- urban resilience; Dhaka, Bangladesh; risk assessment; community action planning
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1356225
- Identifier
- uon:31640
- Language
- eng
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