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Where are the slum dwellers? How many are they?

Where are the slum dwellers? How many are they?. Progress and findings from monitoring activities UN-HABITAT, Nefise Bazoglu. Contents. Conceptual response Response on the information source:data Response on balancing global/local consumption. Conceptual/methodological preparations.

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Where are the slum dwellers? How many are they?

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  1. Where are the slum dwellers? How many are they? Progress and findings from monitoring activities UN-HABITAT, Nefise Bazoglu

  2. Contents • Conceptual response • Response on the information source:data • Response on balancing global/local consumption

  3. Conceptual/methodological preparations CONSENSUS ON OPERATIONAL DEFINITION: • EGM consisting of different stakeholders • Academia\ research institutes • Experts (urban planners & statisticians/demographers) • International agencies/UN • Representatives of slum dwellers • Municipalities

  4. AGREED OPERATIONAL DEFINITION A slum dweller household suffers from one or more of these issues: • No/unacceptable access to improved sanitation • No/unacceptable access to improved water • Temporary housing structure/ settlement on hazardous location • Overcrowding • Insecure tenure

  5. EFFORTS TO FINE-TUNE DEFINITION Gradation was introduced, according to this: • SD households experiencing: • One problem are defined as MILD • Two of these problems is defined as MODERATE • Tree of more of these problems is defined as SEVERE • As methods evolved, element of ‘progress’ was introduced

  6. ISSUES OF INFORMATION SOURCE: DATA • Existing data did not cover some concepts in the definition, e.g. Security of tenure; water and sanitation information not so suited to the urban situation; hazardous location. • Urgency of providing results with global reporting combined with issues of data led to a three pronged strategy of monitoring

  7. Tree pronged strategy on monitoring Target 11& HA short term Medium term Long term

  8. Short term strategy • Needed for global monitoring and advocacy purposes, eg. press coverage on slum estimations • Based on existing data, therefore not all dimensions of the operational definition are captured in the methodology

  9. Short term strategy continued • Country level Slum estimations based on 250 Demographic and Health Surveys Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys: Slums in the World Report • Urban Indicators Programme revisited by: • Selecting a sample of 350 cities • Collecting MDG/HA indicators through capacity building workshops attended by NSO statisticians and by Chief Urban Planners (user/producer interface) • Estimating indicators based on Census or existing survey data

  10. Initial results from short term activities: status of countries, on T-11

  11. Initial results from short term activities: status of countries, on T-11

  12. Initial results from short term activities: status of countries, on T-11

  13. Medium term strategies • Both for global and local consumption • Mainstreaming the Target 11 and Habitat Agenda indicators into existing survey initiatives and censuses

  14. Long term monitoring strategies • Longer time needed to expand, but piloting already started • Global Urban Observatory programme is fined tuned to include monitoring of urban inequities. • Monitoring is organically related to policies by: • the provision of elaborate information on MDGs and urban development issues via Urban Inequities Surveys (UIS) • Provision of sub-city level information to facilitate geographical targetting • Extending capacity building on methods and communication and networking techniques

  15. Results from a full-fledged LUO experience: example of Addis

  16. Results from a full-fledged LUO experience: example of Addis

  17. Results from a full-fledged LUO experience: example of Addis

  18. POLICY RELEVANT INFORMATION FROM URBAN INEQUITIES SURVEY

  19. Orphans and safer cities programmes Fact 3 Fact 2 Fact 1 20% of chil- dren in city of Addis are Orphans Most young criminals are orphans (other Sources) Orphans rank lowest in family hierarchy Fact 4 Policy implication 26% of homeless are children crime prevention programmes to be constructed targetting orphans (either facilities or assistance to families w/orphans. implies collaboration w/MOSA

  20. SANITATION FINDINGS AND POLICIES OF UPGRADING Fact 1: location POLICY IMPLICATIONS 73% HH have toilets within house, plot/compound • Within compound improvement • Feasible • Within compound child-friendly toilets • (design efforts) • Intensive hygiene education Fact 2: sharing status 61 % HH share facility w/ others; of those sharing, 34% share with 6+ families Civil society & Beneficiaries to be Mobilized via IDIR, Self-help org.. Membership 83% Fact 3: hygiene/behavior Hygiene education strategy via radio & face to face; because on all matters, informal communication, radio are primary sources • 95, 81% children do not • use adult toilets, in slums & • non-slums • 22% children feces left on • ground/thrown to river • 35% facilities not cleaned • 85% no hand washing

  21. Conclusion • GUO plans to go to scale on the Addis Local Urban Observatory initiative in, at least in 35 cities around the world, until 2007

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