| India The three Indian cities of Mumbai, Pune and
Bangalore are now providing slum dwellers with improved toilets through
a partnership of municipal bodies, provincial governments, NGOs, community
organisations and slum dwellers themselves. The idea is to reduce the
number of residents per toilet, and the walking distance to a toilet.
Each facility is planned, designed, constructed and managed by the slum
dwellers, with a high involvement of women. This ensures that the infrastructure
meets local needs, and that the residents themselves gain new skills
in infrastructure design, construction and supervision.
An additional and important benefit is the de facto recognition
of the community's right to security of tenure. Providing toilets in
the selected communities amounts to tacit recognition by governmental
authorities that these settlements exist and are there to stay. By involving
community organisations in the entire process, residents are recognised
as stakeholders in local development.
Source: Implementing the Habitat Agenda: the 1996-2001 Experience,
UN-HABITAT, 2001.
South Africa
Drawing directly from the Habitat Agenda, the city of Cape Town,
unveiled a new plan in April 2004, designed to take the city into the
future. It envisages doubling the incomes of poor households by the
year 2020, ensuring that every resident lives in a proper house by 2020,
providing water, sanitation and electricity for all, and cutting back
crime, unemployment, and illiteracy.
"Our draft Integrated Development Plan is an honest document,
laying bare the poverty and inequality that we must tackle," says
Executive Mayor Nomaindia Mfeketo. "Cape Town's human and social
development outcomes fall way below where they should be. Our challenges
are unemployment, an HIV/AIDS explosion, increasing crime and other
social problems."
The new plan, which aims to involve all stakeholders from shack dwellers
to the mayor herself, is drawn from the 2003 Mayoral Listening Campaign
that spent months canvassing residents for the views.
Source: Integrated Development Plan, City of Cape Town, April
2004. |
| Tools to Support Transparency
in Local Governance
Author: Transparency International and UN-HABITAT
ISBN No.: 92-1-131694-4
HS Number: HS/702/04E
Category: Global Issues and Strategies
Production Year: 2004
Language(s): English
The publication is a guide for all urban stakeholders - policy makers,
professionals, private sector, civil society organizations and concerned
citizens - working to improve the quality of life in their cities.
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