doi: 10.3850/S179392402012001093

Disaster Resilience of Slums in Delhi through Appropriate Risk Communication

Sunil Kumar Prashar^a and Rajib Shaw^b Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshida Honmachi,
Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto 6068501, Japan. ^asunilparashar111@gmail.com ^bshaw@global.mbox.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp

ABSTRACT

Several disasters occur in urban areas and affect millions of people through loss of lives, injuries, and affecting livelihood and infrastructure. The urban poor groups are the most affected by such disasters. In addition, their disaster risks are intensified due to their socio-economic condition as well as due to disadvantages associated with slums, such as poor quality of housing, overcrowding, inadequate access to safe water, improper sanitation, and other infrastructure. This paper addresses emerging climate-related hazard risks to urban poor groups in the slums of Delhi. It seeks to build disaster resilience of urban poor groups by integrating risk communication into the slum development program, Sanjha Prayas (Collective Action). Sanjha Prayas is a program of the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD) and addresses the three core issues of water, electricity, and sanitation-solid waste disposal. The paper builds on the argument that Sanjha Prayas can provide an efficient platform to address climate related hazard risk of urban poor groups in Delhi.

Keywords: Risk communication, Disaster resilience, Urban poor, Sanjha prayas.

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