Infrastructure Provision, Gender, and Poverty in Indian Slums

Parikh, Prithi; Fu, Kun; Parikh, Himanshu; McRobie, Allan; George, Gerard

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.09.014

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“…With high rates of population growth and urbanisation it is crucial to ensure that cities grow sustainably with equitable access to basic services (Parikh, Fu, Parikh, McRobie and George, 2015). The proliferation of slums in major urban centres in developing countries reflects a failure of mainstream development strategies to accommodate urbanisation and population growth in cities.…”

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Sustainability assessment of a slum upgrading intervention in Bangladesh

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Parikh

Kabir³

2016

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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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Kabir³

2016

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“…The use of urban infrastructure is beneficial to urban inhabitant health. Some of them provide the basic condition for improving urban inhabitant health such as health, energy, water, and environmental infrastructures [25,26,42,43]. Transportation infrastructure raises inhabitant health level by reducing the occupancy of traffic accidents and the emission of pollutants [44,45].…”

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“…The increase of labor demand raises the wage level of employed persons which is helpful to add the disposable income of urban population. In addition, the perfect urban infrastructure has positive impact 2 Mathematical Problems in Engineering on the health of urban inhabitant and the development of education which has important influence on social progress [25,26].…”

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Analyzing the Coupling Coordination among Economic, Social, and Environmental Benefits of Urban Infrastructure: Case Study of Four Chinese Autonomous Municipalities

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Cui

2018

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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Urban infrastructure is a necessary condition for urban development. Its use generates three benefits which are economic, social, and environmental benefits of urban infrastructure. They are the positive impacts on urban economy, society, and environment generated by the use of urban infrastructure, respectively. This paper evaluates the coupling coordination among these three benefits taking four Chinese autonomous municipalities as examples. These four cities have large-scale urban infrastructure but its basic function has not been fully fulfilled. Whether three benefits of urban infrastructure have been developed in harmony or not was unclear. We analyzed the coordinated development among three benefits by constructing coupling coordination degree model and studied the impacts of three benefits on their coupling coordination degree using panel regression model. The results showed that the levels of coordinated development among three benefits of urban infrastructure were low in these four cities and the impact of social benefit on their coordinated development was largest. Therefore, urban infrastructure social benefit needs to be improved mainly in these four cities.

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“…The health benefits to women of cleaner-burning cookstoves have been well-established [11], but far less peer-reviewed research has focused on the gender impacts of other energy technologies. Large-scale electricity provision in Indian slums [12] and across the Rwandan countryside [13], as well as evaluations of distributed solar photovoltaic systems [14] suggest strong equity impacts for women, but the literature directly measuring impacts on empowerment is thin [9]. From an environmental perspective, the ability to quantify the full suite of impacts of renewables-based development projects-including empowerment-is necessary to make the case for clean versus conventional approaches.…”

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Impact of a rural solar electrification project on the level and structure of women’s empowerment

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Alaofè

Naylor

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Environ. Res. Lett.

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Although development organizations agree that reliable access to energy and energy services-one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals-is likely to have profound and perhaps disproportionate impacts on women, few studies have directly empirically estimated the impact of energy access on women's empowerment. This is a result of both a relative dearth of energy access evaluations in general and a lack of clarity on how to quantify gender impacts of development projects. Here we present an evaluation of the impacts of the Solar Market Garden-a distributed photovoltaic irrigation project-on the level and structure of women's empowerment in Benin, West Africa. We use a quasi-experimental design (matched-pair villages) to estimate changes in empowerment for project beneficiaries after one year of Solar Market Garden production relative to non-beneficiaries in both treatment and comparison villages (n = 771). To create an empowerment metric, we constructed a set of general questions based on existing theories of empowerment, and then used latent variable analysis to understand the underlying structure of empowerment locally. We repeated this analysis at follow-up to understand whether the structure of empowerment had changed over time, and then measured changes in both the levels and likelihood of empowerment over time. We show that the Solar Market Garden significantly positively impacted women's empowerment, particularly through the domain of economic independence. In addition to providing rigorous evidence for the impact of a rural renewable energy project on women's empowerment, our work lays out a methodology that can be used in the future to benchmark the gender impacts of energy projects.

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Infrastructure Provision, Gender, and Poverty in Indian Slums

Cited by 84 publications

References 38 publications

Sustainability assessment of a slum upgrading intervention in Bangladesh

Sustainability assessment of a slum upgrading intervention in Bangladesh

Analyzing the Coupling Coordination among Economic, Social, and Environmental Benefits of Urban Infrastructure: Case Study of Four Chinese Autonomous Municipalities

Impact of a rural solar electrification project on the level and structure of women’s empowerment

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