- Title
- Safety and security in slum upgrading initiatives: the case of LPUPAP, Bangladesh
- Creator
- Ahmed, Iftekhar
- Relation
- 2016 6th International Conference on Building Resilience. 2016 6th International Conference on Building Resilience: Building Resilience to Address the Unexpected (Auckland, New Zealand 7-9 September, 2016) p. 800-809
- Relation
- http://buildresilience2016.nz/?page_id=439
- Publisher
- Massey University & University of Auckland
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- This paper is derived from an assessment of a safety and security initiative of UN-Habitat within the Local Partnerships for Urban Poverty Alleviation Project (LPUPAP) in Bangladesh. It examines the achievements and challenges of the initiative and identifies ways of building upon them. LPUPAP initially focused on infrastructure upgrading and community development in urban slums and then UN-Habitat’s global Safer Cities Programme assisted LPUPAP to formulate a work plan and pilot project for community safety and security. These were eventually not implemented, but LPUPAP continued promoting the initiative’s ideas for prevention of gender-based violence, empowering its women committee members, reducing domestic violence and initiating local crime prevention responses. However, challenges remained, particularly dealing with wider crime in the community, and to structure a strategic project component focused specifically on community crime and violence prevention. Thus the way forward would be to review the Safer Cities work plan and use it as a foundation to address community safety and security.
- Subject
- Safer Cities Programme; Bangladesh; Local Partnerships for Urban Poverty Alleviation Project (LPUPAP); violence
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1348900
- Identifier
- uon:30278
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780473372682
- Language
- eng
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