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Community groups and non-government organizations in the urban field in Pakistan

Arif Hasan and Associates, 37-D, Mohammad Ali Housing Society, Karachi 75350, Pakistan, telephone Karachi 432361.

Community Groups and Non-government Organizations in the Urban Field in Pakistan is based on a study of community organizations and NGOs in five cities. The paper outlines the scale and nature of housing problems in urban areas, and the government's failure to address them. A large, informal private sector has become lower-income groups' main source of land for housing, and of water supply, education and health care. Community action groups formed by residents in low-income areas seek to tackle common problems, and provide cheaper and more effective basic services than the private sector. A concluding section discusses how governments and aid agencies might support and expand the effectiveness of community action groups and the NGOs which help them.

Environment and Urbanization, Vol. 2, No. 1, 74-86 (1990)
DOI: 10.1177/095624789000200109


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