Slums, Resettlement, and Gender:

Mumbai Urban Transport Project

Satya N Mishra, SASDI
Challenges of Urban Transformation
 High Real Estate Prices
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 MUTP
 6.5 mln live in 3000 slums; 1.2 mln houses
required for resettling them
 Finance Capital ($30 Bln-GDP); accounts
for about 1/3 of country’s tax collections
 MUTP: improve east-west/rail traffic
 20,000 households incl. 2000 businesses
had to be resettled from slums along
railway tracks, roads
 18,000 resettled in resettlement townships
R&R: Scope for Addressing Gender
 Detailed BSES planned and carried out
 Gender segregated data compiled
 Data collected on vulnerable families: women
headed/ extremely poor/physically challenged
 Large NGOs working with slum dwellers hired for
community mobilization
 Stakeholder/Community Consultations
 Grievance Process (About 35% of petitioners
have got positive award)
 Five-Member IMP includes 2 Women Professors
of Social Work; Field staff include women
 No Specific Gender Action Plan prepared
 Women: Key Challenges
 Assistance for relocation
 Loss of supplementary incomes for those
engaged in informal sector
 New expenditures/liabilities
 Need for Economic Sustainability
 Care for the children of working mothers
 CHS: Role in decision making
 Role in sustainable self management of sites
 Adapting to new lives, new demands
 What has been achieved
 Provision for assistance for relocation
 Aged, Infirm women: given ground floors
 Women, Child Care Centers in all buildings
 Over 10,000 women engaged in Micro-credit
 Transparent accounting/Fin. Status Display
 Women in CHS Ex. Com. Mandatory
 Women hold separate meetings before GB to
influence decisions
 Unique Community Policing Groups
 Post Resettlement Action Plan: women trained to
play role in CHS/self management of assets/sites
 Work sheds for poor women
 Women and child centered activities by NGOs
 SANKALP
 Youth access to job opportunities
 Livelihoods Cell to address income issues
 Sankalp: Industrial Women’s Coop to promote
micro-enterprise
 Activities: office stationers, festival items, bags,
trade in sarees, vegetable vending, bakery,
greeting cards, etc.
 Linked up with suppliers and buyers
 Planning new initiatives
 Have strong demonstration effect on the rest
 Outcomes
 IA Study: 80% women expressed high degree of
satisfaction: privacy, safety, dignity attached to
house ownership
 Ready to face challenges, need support
 Micro-credit: protection from indebtedness
 Mahila Milans: horizontal support networks
 Clear role in achieving exit indicators
 Sankalp: technical support to new groups
 Com. Police-Gender-based violence minimized
 “No one gave us respect, we know who we are”
 Lessons for Future
 Consultants: good in mgmt skills; weak in social
mobilization
 CSOs: ideological; tend to translate their values into action
 Having baseline data for tracking women’s status during
and after resettlement important.
 Assess risks and opportunities to draw up post-RR support
plan for women
 Sustained facilitation and hands-on business support more
important than financial aid
 Respect for women’s identity and creative talent holds the
key to success in mobilization
 Combine good diagnostics, sustained engagement, and
management support for transformation
 Learning for Action: Gender Need Assessment Study for
MUTP-2A
Life in Slums Along Railway Lines-I
Life in Slums Along Railway Lines-II
From shanty slums to middle class
neighbourhoods

Mankhurd Oshiwara Mahul - B

Majas Ghatkopar
PAP Housing Society Members Trained
Economic Rehabilitation: Food Processing
Sankalp at Anik: Making Festival Items
Sankalp: Greeting Cards for Sale
Sankalp: Making Office Stationery
Sankalp: Making Decorative Items for Sale
A lady PAP at her new work shed
Cheaper to buy from work sheds?
Job Fair for Resettled Youth
Children at Asgaonkar Crèche
 We shall overcome:
Chldren at Asgaonkar Crèche
Thank You