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Evolution of Participatory and Support Based Approach for Strengthening Tenure Security, Housing and Community Resilience
Posted on March 01, 2015
The Urban Partnership for Poverty Reduction (UPPR) Project is the largest poverty reduction project in Bangladesh perhaps in the whole region. UPPR works in partnership with communities and local government institutions in 23 towns and cities across the country to build capacity of the poor people to identify their needs and tackles those by themselves […]
Building confidence, creating livelihoods: Study of short term outcomes for apprenticeship and block grants recipients
Posted on March 01, 2014
A key strategy of UPPR for reducing poverty is creating opportunities for the poor and extreme poor to acquire skills for establishing a new liveli-hood. A job boosts household income while also contributing to the em-powerment of poor women and men, which, in turn, sparks further indi-vidual actions to overcome poverty. Urban livelihoods promotion enable […]
Employment Generating Sector and Skill Development Program for Urban Poor
Posted on February 22, 2014
Reducing poverty remains a formidable challenge for Bangladesh. Although economic growth has improved in recent years, the better economic performance has not translated into satisfactory poverty reduction. Recognizing this disjuncture between the country’s record on economic growth and progress in poverty reduction, current policies emphasize that strong economic growth alone is not adequate for sustained […]
Poor Settlements in Bangladesh: An assessment of 29 UPPR towns and cities
Posted on January 01, 2013
Since its inception in 2008, Urban Partnerships for Poverty Reduction (UPPR) has grown to be Bangladesh’s principal urban poverty reduction initiative. Currently active in 23 and soon 30 major towns and cities, it provides services to more than 3.5 million people living in some of the country’s most challenged communities and aims to secure sustained […]
Study of UPPR’s Urban Food Production Component Increasing Income and Improving Nutrition of the Poor in 20 Cities and Towns
Posted on March 01, 2012
Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries of the world. Due to rapid industrialization and population growth, its citizens are migrating every day from rural to urban areas to seek better income generation opportunities. Unable to break the poverty cycle, migrant soften times settle in low income settlements where guarantee in household food […]
Poor Settlement in Narayanganj
Posted on April 01, 2011
Urban Partnerships for Poverty Reduction (UPPR) was established with the purpose to improve the livelihoods and living conditions of three million urban poor and extreme poor people, especially women and girls. The first step in achieving this is accurately locating them. UPPR therefore has designed and is implementing a process of poor settlement and vacant […]