Task 2

It is very good to know in the lecture that United Nations has a resolution for recognition on housing for all and it stated “ right of everyone to an adequate standard of living for himself and his family, including adequate food, clothing, and housing, and to continuous improvement of living conditions ”. UN also takes another resolution in 2000 to set some goals and target which is known as Millennium Development Goals (MDG), one target in MDG is “significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers to achieve by 2020” committing by members nations . In a estimate in 2005 by UNHSP, the number of slum dwellers in the world are still around 1 billion. The 1 billion slum dwellers do not even have the minimum standard of housing what the UN committed. To ensure the sustainable development, the world leaders should wake up in the fact that when they are worried and high sounding about the climate change and do not even sacrifice any luxury, yet one billion people beyond the shelter of minimum standard.

The Ibare informal housing have the same characteristics what most of the slums in the developing and least developing countries carries. The slum dwellers mostly come from the rural part where job opportunities is very few  and expecting employment in the city. They usually built their house in the outskirts of the city where there is a great lack of sanitation, electricity and drinking water. The  slum houses are also built on a very poor structure and vulnerable to storm, rain, flood etc and the dwellers suffers round the year with their kids.

As the slum dwellers income is very little, it is not realistic to advice them to move to the civilized houses and forcibly eviction them from the slums are more than inhuman unless providing them alternating houses. Without creating more work activities and jobs in the rural areas, tell them go back  will seem “crying in the forest”.

What we have understand in the workshop is that, the government should provide the slum dwellers in a better place first with the help of donors, UN bodies etc and thus can improve the housing settlement like Ibare to acceptable standards .