ABSTRACT

This article explores how the asset-based community development approach has improved the living conditions of the urban slum communities and have also addressed the house level poverty through direct asset transfer that can have positive co-benefits for community resilience to climate change. A broader and less restrictive design, which is qualitative in nature, has been adopted to produce arguments using the experiences of the members of Community Development Committees (CDCs) of slums of Khulna city. Considering the great flexibility nature of open-ended interview data, thematic analysis has been applied to identify and interpret the patterns (themes) related to the activities of CDCs. The findings of the aggregated thematic data show that while community-driven actions might not be taken with climate change adaptation specifically in mind, local community-based actions initiated by the CDCs of slums such as community-driven slum upgrading and collective savings schemes to reduce asset erosion directly contribute to broader resilience to climate change, by reducing exposure to climatic risk and also addressing internal drivers of vulnerability. The findings of capacity-decision-making matrix show that the CDC members do not possess equal capacity while managing the vulnerability through transferring the asset both at household and community level.

摘要

本文探讨了基于资产的社区发展方法如何改善了城市贫民窟社区的生活条件，并通过直接资产转移解决了房屋层面的贫困问题，这可以为社区应对气候变化带来积极的协同效益。已经采用了一种更广泛、限制更少的定性设计，以利用库尔纳市贫民窟社区发展委员会 (CDC) 成员的经验来产生论据。考虑到开放式访谈数据的极大灵活性，已应用主题分析来识别和解释与 CDC 活动相关的模式（主题）。汇总专题数据的结果表明，虽然社区驱动的行动可能不会特别考虑到气候变化适应，由贫民窟疾病预防控制中心发起的以当地社区为基础的行动，例如社区驱动的贫民窟改造和集体储蓄计划，以减少资产侵蚀，通过减少气候风险的暴露并解决脆弱性的内部驱动因素，直接有助于更广泛地抵御气候变化。能力决策矩阵的结果表明，CDC 成员在通过家庭和社区层面的资产转移来管理脆弱性时不具备同等能力。