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Planning for pandemic resilience: COVID-19 experience from urban slums in Khulna, Bangladesh
Planning for pandemic resilience: COVID-19 experience from urban slums in Khulna, Bangladesh
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jum.2021.08.003
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Aid schemes, despite criticisms, saved dwellers from starvation. Therefore, this proved to be a critical coping element. However, NGOs systematic monetary aid gave dwellers the most flexibility in spending.
NGOs proved to be the most vital external stakeholder in all sectors except for built environment/planning. To increase adaptive capacity,
scopes remain in maximizing the use of community infrastructure in future events.
Spatial aspects, alongside the non-spatial, seemed crucial in tackling complex poverty profiles, resource-scarcity, and vulnerabilities of slums.
Fig.1. The proposed conceptual framework for community resilience to COVID-19. (Source: Authors, 2020).
Community resilience assumes a participatory and inclusive planning process, while focusing on stakeholder identification and connections (community involvement), vulnerability assessment(physical and social capital/assets), setting goals, and prioritizing adaptation/mitigation strategies.
Fig. A) Crammed WASH facilities ; B) Open waste disposal.(Source: Fieldwork, 2020).Clockwise.
Fig. A) Crammed WASH facilities ; B) Open waste disposal .(Source: Fieldwork, 2020), Clockwise.
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