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Urban Poverty: Addressing the Challenges of Rapid Urbanization in Africa and Asia

Over the next 15 years, urban populations in Africa and Asia are set to double, with a significant portion of the new residents being born in cities or migrating for better opportunities. Urban poverty presents multi-dimensional challenges as these populations often live in slums that lack basic services and formal recognition. Local partnerships that include the urban poor as active participants in development are crucial. By evolving our understanding of urbanization, we can engage slum dwellers as valuable contributors rather than problems, reshaping policies and improving living conditions.

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Urban Poverty: Addressing the Challenges of Rapid Urbanization in Africa and Asia

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  1. Urban Poverty – the rapidly changing context

  2. During these 15 years, many cities in Africa and Asia will nearly double in population.

  3. Population figures from Census 2001 Project figures from Sept 2005 Progress Report

  4. Who are these new urban residents ? More than half will be born in cities The balance will be poor migrants in search of a better life

  5. Urban poverty is multi-dimensional, complex and dynamic Local Partnerships for Urban Poverty Alleviation Project(LGED/UNDP/UNCHS Project BGD/98/006) • Insecure • Unsanitary • Unserviced

  6. The urban poor are trapped in an informal, illegal worldSlums not reflected on maps often situated on marginal and dangerous land taxes are not paid public services are not provided. Officially, often, they do not exist Their “local authorities” are usually the slumlords or local mafia

  7. The new urban poor Where will they live? Which land should they use? Which schools will their children go to? Where will they get their water? How will their rubbish be collected? Where should they vote? Who will protect them?

  8. In many countries, a new vision is developing . . . • recognising urbanization as an inevitable and positive • highlighting the importance of cities and local authorities in the social and economic success of a country • conferring upon the urban poor a full and meaningful urban citizenship, engaging slum dwellers as partners not problems, and • adopting realistic, long-term planning frameworks

  9. the urban poor: • formal institutions have failed to serve them • show enormous resilience • ingenuity in mobilising and organizing themselves • increasingly positioning themselves as active participants in development • they are a growing electoral force influencing urban policies and public investments

  10. Potential of Partnership • Fully involve the community • Open “space” for dialogue with authorities • WIN - WIN situations are becoming much more common

  11. In Bangladesh . . .. . . there is a major untapped potential of the urban poor as developmental agents rather than recipients of assistance

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