Bøger af Diana Mitlin

This book presents finding from the DFID-funded projects 'Partnership to Improve Access and Quality of Urban Public Transport for the Urban Poor'. The purpose of the project was to identify, explore, and document critical issues in the provision of transport services for and in low-income settlements in developing countries. The identifies issues can be used at policy and operational levels to provide better transport services to low-income communities in urban areas. In the research methodology, a sustainable livelihoods framework was used.This pubication comes with a CD containing pdf files of all the publication I nthis series, includeing case studies from Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Tanzania.

At least one third of the urban population of Africa, Asia, and Latin America remains poor. This book analyses the conditions necessary for successful community initiatives and includes case studies of 18 intermediary institutions (most of them Third World NGOs) who provide technical, legal and financial services to low-income households.