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POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY TN

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land. There is need to develop a scheme that will facilitate granting of tenure to<br />

residents on tenable sites owned or acquired by government.<br />

c. Government may acquire land as ownership of most of slums on private lands is<br />

either unclear or embroiled in court cases.<br />

Basic Services to Urban Poor<br />

i. A major constraint that the urban poor face in seeking to improve their livelihoods is<br />

their limited access to basic municipal services: water supply, sanitation, drainage,<br />

garbage collection, access roads and pathways, street lighting and flood protection.<br />

The city government has to ensure that services like water supply, sanitation and<br />

electricity are provided on individual household basis; this will also facilitate collection<br />

of user charges.<br />

ii. Service provision in slums should be integrated with other city level schemes to<br />

achieve economy and scale.<br />

iii. Health insurance should be widened to cover curative health care.<br />

iv. Education through non-formal and community management mode should be<br />

promoted.<br />

Considering that migration to urban areas is going to continue, anticipatory steps in<br />

terms of planned building up of satellite townships at the periphery of cities that are well<br />

connected to the city centre will help in curbing the creation of new slums.<br />

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