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success of Orangi Pilot Project's extensive low cost sanitation programme in
Karachi's working class settlement of Orangi demonstrates that low income
communities can finance and manage the construction of an underground
sanitation system at the neighbourhood level if they are provided technical
support and social guidance and if government can undertake the development
and maintenance of trunk sewers and treatment plants.
In this book, Arif Hasan, Pakistan's renowned
architect and OPP's principal consultant, describes OPP's collaboration with
government and international development gencies in attempting to replicate
its sanitation programme in the low income areas of three Pakistani cities.
This in-depth study analyses the actors and processes involved in this
collaboration. It brings out that government and international
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a agencies are
generally incapable of relating to the realities of urban communities. The
communities, on the other hand, are resourceful, realistic and capable of
improving their living conditions with social and technical support from
concerned individuals and organizations.
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