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Sally Cawood is a PhD scholar at the Global Development Institute GDI (formerly Brooks World Poverty Institute and Institute for Development Policy and Management IDPM), School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester, UK. Sally’s research interests include urban geography, social policy and grassroots initiatives in low-income settlements in the Global South. Sally’s current work is on the role of community based organizations in accessing basic services in informal settlements in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Filling the Gap or Digging a Void? The Role of NGO-initiated CBOs in Service Delivery in Dhaka, Bangladesh
This essay offers preliminary observations from nine months of fieldwork in Dhaka. It focuses in particular on one organization, a collection of NGO-initiated CBOs across Dhaka—Nogor Bostibashi Unnyan Sangstha (NBUS), or Urban Slum Development Agency—to highlight the complexities of NGO-initiated CBO service provision and encourage debate about how to move forward.
