Urban Resilience for Marginal Inhabitants (URMI) in Sirajganj Pourashava

Urban Resilience for Marginal Inhabitants (URMI) Project has implemented its activities in Sirajganj Pourasova. This project is funded by the Climate Bridge Fund (CBF). CBF is a trust fund established by BRAC with support from the Government of Germany through KfW. Therefore, the Project Baseline survey is ideal to initiate in the 1st year of the implementation phase, where the study team will work in 16 slums in Sirajganj Municipalities for conducting the baseline.

Major challenges to people living in slums are basic services (water, sanitation, education, health, electricity, social safety net etc.), and livelihoods. Flooding and water logging are the common phenomena that affect the population living in slums and low-income communities. Lack of employment opportunities drives the population towards extreme poverty. According to a survey by UPPR project of UNDP there were 759 poor settlements containing 30,670 households across 5 Wards of Sirajganj Pourashava. River erosion and flood attacks occur almost every year with different levels of intensities in Sirajganj town. The post-disaster situation of Sirajganj was intolerable especially towards the poor and the extremely poor people. They had no option to borrow money with a low level of interest to reconstruct their assets after a disaster. Often, the plinths of houses, water and sanitation facilities have to be rebuilt and repaired urgently after floods, but they had no source of monetary flow to support this process.

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