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Abstract
1. Background
1.1 The Urban Settin g
1.2 Demographic Profile and Urbanization
1.3 Socio-Economic Profile
1.4 Urban Poverty
1.5 Institutional Set-up of Dhaka City
2. Solid Waste Management in Dhaka
2.1 Present System of Solid Waste Management
2.2 Problems with Existing System of Solid
Waste Management
2.3 Why Decentralization Composting
3. The Community-Based Decentralized Composting
Project
3.1 Genesis of the Project
3.2 Project Partners
3.3 Implementation Process
3.4 Results
3.5 Risk
3.6 Conclusions
3.7 Future Prospects
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ABSTRACT
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Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh,
is one of the fastest growing mega cities of the world, with present
estimated population of 5.5 million in the Dhaka City Corporation
area while the population of the mega city stands at more than 10.0
million.
This rapid growth in population has created tremendous pressure on
urban utilities, services, and shelter, making the poor worst affected.
It is estimated that around 55 per cent of the urban population in
Dhaka lives below poverty line and half of them lives in slums and
squatter settlements, Access to, solid waste management and other
civic and social services by this huge poor population is extremely
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However, in mid 1990's a
project was launched by Waste Concern, a research based non?government
organisation which was later supported by international development
agencies and public agencies in Dhaka city to improve solid waste
management system at neighborhood level, using decentralized approach
of waste management.
The project has created enormous impact on the poor, cleanliness of
neighborhood, employment generation and quality of life as well as
living environment. The project has involved public and private sectors
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This present book presents
an insight into the significant success of the project. It brings
into focus strategies and steps taken in the aforementioned project,
its impact on the community as well as on the city.
It begins with relevant information about Dhaka city and its extent
of poverty in section one, followed by a brief review of institutional
framework of Dhaka city and pertinent government plan and policies
for solid waste management in section two. Details of the community
based decentralized composting project and steps followed for its
implementation are described in detail in section three. |
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