Tagbilaran City Urban Poor Research Mapping
TAGBILARAN CITY URBAN POOR RESEARCH MAPPING
A Research Design
By: Joy Jakosalem-Balane
1 INTRODUCTION
To eradicate extreme poverty is one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s). Over-all the target is to cut by half the proportion of people whole income is less than one dollar a day by 2015. Presently, there are more than 1 billion people in developing countries who live on less than one dollar a day (UN/DESA, 2006). There is also an increasing number of people living in urban areas living on less than one dollar a day (Stewart & Kuffer, 2007). There are several efforts made to localize urban poverty in many developing cities but there is apparent concern on the scarcity of relevant data, coupled with lack of both human and financial resources for data collection and analysis which have significantly affected the target interventions.
Traditionally, approaches of measuring poverty have been focusing on income and consumption (monetary dimension of poverty), while recently poverty is understood as a multidimensional phenomenon focusing on multiple sources of deprivation in poverty areas (Martinez-Martin, 2005). Those areas are characterized by overcrowding, insufficient water supply, sanitation and infrastructure, problems of health and nutrition, limited access to education, as well as insecurity, exposure to hazard, deficient social relations, etc (Turkstra and Raithelhuber, 2004). As a multidimensional phenomenon urban poverty is also spatially heterogeneous since poor people tend to be clustered in specific places. Therefore it is important to capture the spatial heterogeneity and the substantial variation of poverty areas to know better where the poor are and how they are distributed throughout the city. To target urban poor, it is important to establish clear framework on how poverty is conceptualized, measured and analyzed within a specific local context. To be able to locate the urban...
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