Abstract

The volume is one of the first international publications to link the improvement of the built environment on the ‘world of the child’. It underlines the need for the integration of a child focused perspective into human settlement programs worldwide and presents an integrated method of child-centred program appraisal.
The volume articulates the role of habitat and housing processes as ‘organising principles’ and entry points into the process of social mobilisation and poverty alleviation, through a mixture of perspective papers and detailed case studies from child focussed development, the Rights of the Child to technology, finance and project management. The cases are primarily from Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal and India, with a few other international examples