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New policy for slum upgrading : a case study of Dey Krohom community in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

AuthorRos Meng
Call NumberAIT Thesis no.UE-05-04
Subject(s)Slums--Cambodia
NoteA thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science, School of Environment and Resources Development
PublisherAsian Institute of Technology
AbstractThe experiences of population growth in the city have many factors ties up together. of country historical, changing ownership, migration and so on, but it is also bring along with of poor population, particularly slum/squatter settlement resulted in land and housing problem. "The changing attitudes towards the urban poor within the context of policy shift relocation to slum upgrading on the original place, it's recently make by government. It is the most common for urban poor in Phnom Penh. In order to make community slum/squatter settlement have chance to develop, and improve their living condition. In contrary they will no longer be slum/squatters. Further more they will become legal occupants of their land and housing. It is important that a lot of potentially messy issues in Dey Krohom community, which is provoked from fail, achieve what was main goal in policy upgrading. The policy of slum in-situ upgrading, it is often put forward as a panacea for improving the living conditions for low-income people. In the light of this study, research paper attempts to highlight the shift of complicity between community committee and community member. The essential components of an ineffective programmed that happening on empower within the leader and the member of community. The leaders are blocking the process of slum upgrading because of land tenure and the opportunity. Further more, the non-transparency of empower between the leader and the member, leading to leader have been decided all the work without any consultation with their own member, Cheating list , persuasive people move out, and used of private feature as make as the development of the policy upgrading process. In the contrary everything was going wrong people still waiting for the security land and environmental of their living condition because of the complexity among vision and action of the leader and member. Yet, a gap remains within community itself that officially still understand "the problem of lack of tenure land and housing" of slum/squatter settlement in urban poor, and what may be ineffective needed to improve the conditions of the poor through the improving of' prerequisite of security tenure, land and housing in slum/squatter settlements.
Year2005
TypeThesis
SchoolSchool of Environment, Resources, and Development (SERD)
DepartmentDepartment of Development and Sustainability (DDS)
Academic Program/FoSUrban Environmental and Management (UE)
Chairperson(s)Sajor, Edsel E.;Nowarat Coowanitwong
Examination Committee(s)Amin, A. T.M. Nurul
Scholarship Donor(s)Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
DegreeThesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2005


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