Community initiatives: slum dwellers can do it for themselves

Community initiatives: slum dwellers can do it for themselves

Published Jan 2004

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Celine d'Cruz, David Satterthwaite

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Community initiatives: slum dwellers can do it for themselves

When slum dwellers and their organisations work with their government and external agencies to ‘significantly improve their lives’ (Millennium Development Goal target 11) they often succeed where governments on their own fail. Many of the solutions are cost-effective, sustainable and have reached hundreds of thousands of slum dwellers.

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