Human Settlements
Community Initiatives: Four Case Studies from Karachi
The population of Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, was 450,000 in 1947. Today it is over 11 million, and about 500,000 people are added to it every year. The state and formal sector agencies have failed...
Urban Poverty Alleviation – Policy Orientation
Poverty alleviation is a term and concept that is being used, discussed and applied in a big way in Pakistan for the last couple of years. This term is creating a mindset that increasingly ignores the causes of poverty and seeks only to address their effects.
Evaluation of the work of the People’s Dialogue and South African Homeless People’s Federation
The stated objective of both the People’s Dialogue (PD) and the Homeless People’s Federation (HPF) is to capture and expand the space that is available in the political process to the disadvantaged groups in South Africa. This space has been made available by the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa.
Karachi Demographics
This presentation is available for download: P07 – Karachi Demographics [PDF, 70KB]
Ishtirak-e-Aamal
The blurb for this book is in Urdu. Please click on the thumbnail below for a clearer view and explanation of the book.
Working with Government
The success of OPP’s extensive low cost sanitation programme in Karachi’s working class settlement of Orangi demonstrates that low income communities can finance and manage the construction of an underground sanitation system at the neighbourhood...
Housing Crisis in Central Asia
Independent states have emerged in Central Asia following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The media has paid considerable attention to the larger economic and social aspects of the transition of these states from a...
Report of the Follow-up ACHR Mission to Central Asia
In February and March of 1996, an Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR) Mission, consisting of Father Jorge Anzorena and Arif Hasan, visited Almaty and Bishkek at the request of DIA and HIC. DIA funded...
Urban Housing Policies and Approaches in a Changing Asian Context
Major changes are taking place in Asia, both at the macro level and “on the ground”. Liberalisation of the economy, strategic readjustment, the tourist and manufacturing boom and large scale demographic changes are creating both...
Views on Housing and Physical Planning Section of 9th Five Year Plan
Over 80 per cent of all housing in Pakistan is provided by the informal sector because of the following reasons.
Possible Directions for the Regulations and Bye-Laws Sub-Committee of the Oversee Committee of Karachi Building Control Authority (KBCA)
1. General 1.1 Zoning regulations and bye-laws have to respond to the needs of the city and the trends and directions of growth and change. It is essential to know these trends. The Karachi Development...
