Knowledge Matters - Lessons from the city: experiences in addressing urban poverty

This edition of Knowledge Matters is dedicated to exploring the various experiences that Concern’s country programmes have had in addressing urban poverty. Each of the country experiences presents a unique approach to addressing poverty in the city. It can and has been argued that urban poverty has fundamental different characteristics to rural poverty. From reading the various articles what is clear is that the distinction between rural and urban, as experienced by individuals, is not a “divide” but a continuum defined by a series of characteristics.

Articles Concern(ing) urban programming 4 The role of urban community health workers in improving health outcomes 7 Developing indicators for an urban early warning system 10 Boosting development in Grand Ravine: a community engagement model for working in Haiti’s complex urban settings 14 Helping pavement dwellers out of extreme poverty in Bangladesh 17 Inspiring new solutions to displacement: experiences from the Return to Neighbourhoods Programme 22 Overcoming sampling obstacles for health data in urban slums 26 Promoting marketable skills for the informal sector in Addis Ababa 30 Providing a safe refuge for working children in an urban setting 34 Teaching equity: public teacher distribution in the city of Nairobi 37 Urban sanitation facilities in Liberia: rethinking latrine designs 41 The future is urban: what have we learned? what lies ahead? 45 French-language abstracts 49