According to United Nations, 50 percent of the global urban population can be classified as slum dwellers-persons suffering from inadequate and/or limited access to safe drinking water, sanitation and other infrastructure; poor quality of housing and insecure residential status. In the least developed countries, estimates of slum population accounts to nearly 78 percent of urban population (UN-Habitat, 2003). Th is paper suggests that the complicated nature of slums requires less conventional and more innovative collaborations that involve not only the public and private sectors, but also voluntary entities, such as non-governmental organizations, and those most affected by such efforts – the slum dwellers themselves. The paper uses Ahmadabad city as case study which has a history of over 500 years.
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