Lives and Livelihoods on the Streets of Dhaka City: Findings from a Population-based Exploratory Survey

Syed Masud Ahmed, Qazi Shafayetul Islam, Shamim Hossain, Md. Kamruzzaman and Antora Mahmud Khan

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Abstract: BRAC has long been working to empower people and communities in situations of poverty, illiteracy, disease and social injustice. In recent years, BRAC has extended its activities to include the urban poor population living in the slums. As a continuation of this, and to be more inclusive, BRAC is going to implement innovative programmes for the street dwellers (who sleep on streets, railway terminals and platforms, bus stations, parks and open spaces, religious centres, construction sites and around graveyards and in other public places with no roof) in scale. BRAC Research and Evaluation Division carried out an exploratory cross-sectional survey on a sample of these populations from 10 purposively selected areas of Dhaka city to gather information on their lives and livelihoods, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. [Working Paper No.19]. URL: [http://www.bracresearch.org/workingpapers/red_wp19_new.pdf].

Keywords: population; street dwellers; railway; bus stations; Dhaka; quantitative; qualitative methods; Sociodemographic; economic; population-based survey; lives; livelihoods; people; communities; empower; poverty; illiteracy; disease; social injustice; slums (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-07
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