Integrated Urban Development (IUD-II) - kitchen waste biogas digester
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Authors
Elizabeth Dunn
Issue Date
2015-08
Type
Language
en
Keywords
Energy , Sustainability
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Abstract
Two female workers at the kitchen waste biogas digester plant. The Integrated Urban Development 2 project (IUD-II) project was about generating sustainable behaviour changes in the way slum dwellers engage with government counterparts and vice-versa - 'Delivering Decentralisation'. The intervention addresses the needs of people in low income settlements in the towns of Faridpur and Jessore in Bangladesh as well as 4 other towns in Nepal and Sri Lanka. Urban services (water, sanitation, hygiene, waste management) operate in cities, but are often not accessible to poorer communities. This is a combined failure of planning, financial and management capacity and governance. This project enabled these communities to engage in the planning and decision making processes of local government. ‘Harijans’ or Dalits are the lowest in the Hindu caste sytem and are frequently exploited. We worked particularly with this group, helping them to form effective representative organisations to ensure that they are able to improve the delivery of public services in their area.