Case Study on a Slum Improvement Project in Dhaka Metropolitan City

The SIP has significantly raised levels of health awareness among slum dwellers, resulting in significant reductions in the incidence of numerous diseases. The SIP has empowered poor women through community involvement, particularly through the savings and credit programme, thereby raising the overall status of women in families and communities. Some of the components of the project were barely able to reach the poorest of the poor, who remain virtually outside the reach of SIP credit and savings programmes. The land tenure issue has not yet been comprehensively addressed by the SIP. With physical infrastructure development, the non-physical needs such as human resource development, social mobilization, community organization, and participation, which are all vital for project sustainability, need to be further developed. Although slums have become an inevitable part of urban life and land use, eviction is still a constant threat to the existence of slum dwellers.