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About LIUPCP

The urban challenge in Bangladesh is large and complex. Urbanisation is rapid in Bangladesh as in most of South Asia. As many rural landless poor continue to move to the cities to escape the effects of climate change, in search of jobs and economic opportunities, they face significant burdens. In cities, they rent expensive, yet poor quality housing, with little to no security and unreliable water and electricity supplies. The urban centres are now exposed to challenges such as solid waste management, the growth of slum areas with lack of clean water and proper sanitation, congested living conditions, inadequate drainage systems, and untreated industrial and medical waste disposal. All these disproportionately affect the urban poor, especially women and children. Whilst notable advances have been made in strengthening urban governance and management over the last decade – much remains to be done. To ensure Bangladesh’s smooth transition from ‘low-income’ to ‘middle-income’ status, the large number of urban poor cannot be overlooked. Against this backdrop, the Local Government Division (LGD), Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development & Cooperatives (MoLGRD&C) with financial and technical support of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Government of Bangladesh and the Department for International Development (DFID) launched a national project to reduce urban poverty, called ‘Livelihoods Improvement of Urban Poor Communities Project’ (LIUPCP). The LIUPCP project under UNDP’s National Urban Poverty Reduction Programme (NUPRP) follows the successful Urban Partnerships for Poverty Reduction (UPPR) project that demonstrated solutions to the urban governance challenges in Bangladesh. The DFID-funded and UNDP-implemented UPPR programme developed a community-led approach to slum improvement between 2008-2015, addressing issues of community empowerment, skills, livelihoods and small-scale infrastructure. LIUPC will evolve this approach to tackle the structural drivers of urban poverty at the national, municipal and community levels. The project aims to contribute to balanced, sustainable growth by reducing urban poverty in Bangladesh and contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 that call for ‘leaving no one behind’.