What We Do

To promote the exchange of information, facilities and expertise between and among members helping the urban poor • To strengthen inter-agency, sectoral collaborations as well as collaboration with the government • To support various NGOs who are working at the field level to help the urban poor, specially women and children • To develop working relations with government organizations which provide civic facilities for the urban people • To push through the demands for housing and other civic rights and to ensure that these facilities and rights are achieved • To conduct policy dialogue with international organizations, urban research institutes, Rajuk, City Corporation, Housing & Settlement Department and policy making institutions and carry out policy advocacy • To liaison with different non-governmental and human rights organizations, urban research institutes and the government organizations engaged in the socio-economic development of the urban poor and to develop greater cooperation among them • To provide assistance to Adult Literacy, Child Education, Health, Nutrition, Sanitation, Credit, Legal Aid, Income and Employment Generation and Skill Development Training programmes for improving the quality of life of the urban poor • To extend all sorts of support to the urban poor in case of natural calamities • To resist anti-social activities, induce human values and provide assistance to the poor to participate in the decision-making process of the mainstream development programmes • To organize seminars, workshops, symposiums and arrange study tours to national and international and regional organizations and share their experience to identify and solve the problems of the urban poor.


Publication:

Documentation/material relating to the issue of Urban Poor is available in the CUP secretariat.
1. Directory of NGOs working in Dhaka city.
2. 5 years strategic plan CUP.
3. Chronology of slum eviction.
4. Report on Urban Poor’s voting right campaign by CUP.
5. Report on advocacy campaign against slum eviction (Aug 1999) by CUP.
6. Taskforce reports by CUP.
7. Hague Appeal for Peace 1999.
8. Forced evictions and Human Rights by COHRE.
9. Report on Round Table Conference jointly organized by Daily Star-CUP-BGMEA.
10. Report on the CUP-ADAB Regional Workshop.
11. Field visit report on 32 evicted slum.
12. A profile of urban development activities of NGOs by CUP and IDPAA.
13. ACHR and COHRE fact finding statement on slum eviction in 1999-2000.
14. Implications of eviction on poverty and livelihood of urban slum dwellers.
15. Position Paper on the urban poverty issues.
16. Proceeding of the Workshop on Urban Poverty.
17. Report on Dialogue on Urban Poverty Issue.
18. Lack of education facilities for urban children and prospects for solution.
19. Report on base line Survey for WATSAN program development-2005.
20. Module for Hygiene Promotion Training to the Slum Dwellers.

Role of CUP

As a networking organization CUP works with and for the local, national and international organizations who are the members of CUP and other relevant stakeholders with whom CUP has been maintaining network and partnership relations. The policy strategy of CUP is the formulation of people's organizations by ensuring community participation and building awareness. The role of CUP consists of the following activities: Linking the member organizations and people’s organizations with the resource centers to build their capacity; Collection of information related to urban poverty and its dissemination's to the member organizations. Sensitizing the policy makers and other stakeholders through policy advocacy, dialogues and campaigns in alliance with like-minded organizations for formulating a policy for the settlement of the urban poor; Utilization and mobilization of national and international resources; Involving civil society, professional groups and individuals in the activities of CUP.