Emerging stronger? Assessing the outcomes of Habitat for Humanity’s housing reconstruction programmes following the Indian Ocean tsunami

maynard,; Parikh, PH; Simpson, David; Silva, J Da

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“…ASPIRE can be applied both at city and local scale so future work could also include comparison of city and slum level impact to see if localised factors have an impact on seemingly successful city level interventions. Maynard et al (2014) carried out a housing impact assessment using ASPIRE for four countries comparing lessons learnt across the four sites. There is scope to use ASPIRE for comparison of sites at same scale, compare across scales, ongoing monitoring through time series evaluation and as a stakeholder engagement tool where participants discuss environmental, institutional, economics and social aspects of the project.…”

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Sustainability assessment of a slum upgrading intervention in Bangladesh

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Kabir³

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Equitable provision of physical infrastructure must be seen as a prerequisite for achieving the sustainability of human settlements. Infrastructure provision needs to consider both the product (physical services) and the context in which the services will be provided and maintained in order to be sustainable. This article presents a holistic methodology for evaluating sustainability and poverty reduction impact of infrastructure projects in developing countries through societal, economics, institutional and environmental dimensions. ASPIRE toolkit uses qualitative evidence which feeds into 96 indicators producing visual outputs which can encourage users to consider contextual issues and develop valuable trade-offs between the four dimensions.The methodology and toolkit is applied to the evaluation of an infrastructure upgrading project in Korail, Bangladesh. The Urban Partnership for Poverty Reduction Project (UPPRP) in Korail, supports a twin-pronged approach of provision of infrastructure (water, sanitation, roads and drainage) improvement through the Slum Improvement Fund and improvement of socio-economic conditions through the Socio-Economic Funds. The ASPIRE assessment allowed the authors to interrogate strengths and weaknesses of the UPPR project thereby demonstrating the value added by ASPIRE. Overall, the project was deemed successful in Korail. Socially, it allowed access to all types of services to the slum's residents with strong community engagement. Land security however was noted to be a challenge, which needs to be addressed by institutions in Dhaka.

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Sustainability assessment of a slum upgrading intervention in Bangladesh

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2016

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“…Humanity (Maynard, et al, 2014). The ASPIRE toolkit was specifically developed to integrate poverty and sustainability agenda for infrastructure projects with an opportunity to clearly define the scale, project boundary and temporal dimension.…”

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Towards measurable resilience: A novel framework tool for the assessment of resilience levels in slums

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International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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This paper investigates the need for a generic technique to be applied in the assessment of resilience-related projects in slums -particularly for localised infrastructure at a community level -and proposes a novel framework tool for this purpose. The paper outlines the development of the framework tool, as well as its pilot testing on the Kenya Slum Upgrading Programme in Kibera, Nairobi. occurring in Asia (Doocy, et al., 2013). There is a growing body of evidence that urban populations in low and middle income countries are becoming increasingly susceptible to disasters (Dodman, Hardoy and Satterthwaite 2008). There has been a considerable interest, both in academic literature and policy formulation, in building the resilience capacity of urban populations, in particular of vulnerable communities in slums. Upgrading projects in slum settings present a set of unique challenges to planners and engineers as they are often characterised by resource constraints, high density housing, lack of land tenure, contested social power structures and marginalised localities. RESILIENCEResilience concepts and approaches have been adopted and applied by several academic and professional disciplines including engineering, psychology, ecology, organisational and management studies, and risk and disaster management (Alexander, 2013). The concept was first applied to the study of ecological systems by Holling in the early 1970s (Holling, 1973;Johnson & Blackburn, 2014), and has since been adopted and used liberally by various professions to frame a response to poorly planned and managed urbanisation. Béné defines resilience as:"any capacity and skills, and action, strategy, investment and anticipation, which helps individual[s], households and communities to anticipate, absorb, accommodate, or recover from the impacts of a particular adverse event (shock, stress, or (un)expected changes)." (Béné 2013) Thinking and writing on disaster risk management has increasingly embraced resilience terminology and thinking, although there has been little consistency in understanding and Highlights There is a need for a generic technique to be applied for the assessment of localised infrastructure at community level. The paper outlines the development of a framework which is then applied in a slum in Kenya  The added value of the framework discussed in this article is its application to informal settlements and the ease of use with limited data.

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Emerging stronger? Assessing the outcomes of Habitat for Humanity’s housing reconstruction programmes following the Indian Ocean tsunami

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Sustainability assessment of a slum upgrading intervention in Bangladesh

Sustainability assessment of a slum upgrading intervention in Bangladesh

Towards measurable resilience: A novel framework tool for the assessment of resilience levels in slums

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