Up-scaling the Orangi model to the city level : six case studies from the katachi abadies of Karachi

Author: Abdul Rashid Khatri

AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no. HS-87-18

Year: 1987

Academic Program: Human Settlement (HS)

Type: Thesis (M.Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology 2000

Examination Committee: Willi Zimmerman (Chairperson); Kioe Sheng Yap, Hans Detlef Kammeier, Arumugams Sathasivan, (Examination Committee Members)

Abstract: The lack of integration and coordination among people based development in informal settlements and government agency’s sanitation infrastructure development as well as sewage treatment is a complex issue for Karachi. Mostly, the sewage from informal settlement as well as from formal settlement is flowing into the natural creeks and drains and disposing into the sea without treatment. Without accepting the reality of shortage of finan ce, they are continuing in developing high cost and high technology separate sanitation infrastructure by taking huge foreign loans. On one hand this kind of development is not solving the sanitation problem of informal and also formal settlements. On the other hand, high development and maintenance cost is not affordable for the people. This research focus on the application of Orangi Pilot Project’s model of sanitation on city level in context of people-government partnership and its constraints to achieve integrated development. The analysis of the OPP model has been done on 3 levels i.e. first, on community level, second on government level and third on people-NGOs-government coordination for integrated planning with sustainable development. The methodology based on case study research for all three levels. The analysis is the combination of description, interpretation and evaluation approach. Description approach gives the detailed of development process which can assist to identify the potential and weaknesses of the correspondent level through interpretation approach and gives a better understanding of its nature in relation to OPP development concept through evaluation approach. .. (ChapterfoUI~ Finding from this research about the people based development shows that people have awareness about hygienic condition, capacity and willingness to solve sanitation issue at a certain level. The extent of people base development is enormous and it is not possible to ignore it in development planning. This people based development needs technical assistance for better quality sanita

Scholarship Donor(s): Government of Japan

Note: A thesis submitted in prutial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, School of Environment, Resources and Development

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