Showing posts with label vulnerability. Show all posts
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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Anas Sarwar, Glasgow Central, Labour, poverty and vulnerability in urban areas.


Developing Countries: Urban Areas
International Development

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Anas Sarwar (Glasgow Central, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how her Department assesses poverty and vulnerability in urban areas.

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Alan Duncan (Minister of State, International Development; Rutland and Melton, Conservative)
DFID draws on a range of information sources, including national poverty surveys and consultations with poor people, to assess poverty and vulnerability in urban areas.
The Department is working with others to improve the tools to measure and understand urban poverty. For example in Vietnam we are supporting a special poverty survey for urban areas. In Bangladesh, DFID supports the Urban Partnership for Poverty Reduction Programme, which has developed a new way of measuring and monitoring urban poverty that includes people living in slums and informal settlements, who were previously excluded from the official statistics.