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A Growing Problem
Poverty Statistics
What is Adequate Shelter?
Actions Needed
• Infrastructure
• Investment
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ACTIONS NEEDED: INFRASTRUCTURE
Lack of infrastructure hinders private sector development, deterring the establishments of new enterprises, hampering the productivity of existing ones, and harming potential employment creation.
The process of infrastructure provisions is as important as the end product.
Employment-intensive and local resource-based techniques can be applied to a wide range of infrastructure works, including roads, sidewalks, low-level bridges, drainage, on-site sanitation, water and sewerage reticulation, land development, electrification, and building works. These methods are particularly well suited to infrastructure solutions in densely built up slum areas.
The procurement system can be used as a pro-poor tool to enhance the social and economic benefits of urban upgrading investments. Even a minor shift toward more employment-intensive technology options in infrastructure investment can have a major impact on aggregate employment creation, given the capital inflows involved.
Above: New neighborhood development in Managua, Nicaragua. GHF is committed to providing affordable and sustainable housing to the working poor as well as roads, water treatment, sewage removal and lasting infrastructure.
Taken by MAC June 2009
Infrastructure is key to improving the living conditions and economic opportunities of slum dwellers
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