Strengthening community-based organizations for slum Development
Keywords:
community development, interventions, recognise, facilitatorAbstract
Efforts aimed at urban poverty reduction and service delivery improvement depend critically on slum dwellers‘ collective agency. This study aims to examine key challenges of CBOs in bringing and performing collective action and factors which promote CBOs to contribute for social change. Through extensive reviews of literature in urban slum upgrading studies, this study has found two broad sets of factors influencing CBOs performance. The first set is identified as internal factor is key challenges of CBOs being lack of effective leadership and communication. The second set is identified as enabling factors which enhance CBO to achieve their collective actions. This study concludes that in the implementation of community development project CBOs are indispensable actors as they are at the forefront in their community and are best positioned to engage with all community development interventions. The urban practitioners and NGOs need evaluate their approach to empowering urban residents in partnership with CBOs. In order to sustain CBOs the NGOs should recognise and limit their role beyond the facilitator to avoid ongoing dependence.
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