Assessment of UPPR’s Partnerships and Linkages Strategy

This report is a review of the way that the Urban Partnerships for Poverty Reduction (UPPR) in Bangladesh has supported communities to develop relationships with other projects or organizations. Collectively these relationships are referred to as Partnerships and Linkages (P&L).UPPR has defined such collaborations with no exchange of funds as linkages while those where UPPR pays for the services provided are termed partnerships. Research for the report was undertaken in six of the 23 towns and cities where UPPR has been supporting poor urban communities since 2008. The main research tool was unstructured interviews with a range of project stakeholders, supplemented by a structured participatory exercise with community members in one town and a survey which randomly sampled UPPR partners for quantitative data to compare with the data held by the UPPR team. Ten short case studies were produced based on the research.