This is the Annual Report of CARE's Programme Partnership Agreement (PPA) 2005 - March 2006.

This statement sets out CARE’s analysis of the underlying causes of urban poverty. Based on our findings in the field, it is the reference point for all our work in this area.

CARE’s figures show that every day 100,000 people move into a slum in the developing world – that’s equivalent to one person every second. In this report CARE argues that current approaches to aid overlook this crucial aspect of global poverty which must be addressed if we are to achieve fundamental and lasting change for poor people worldwide.

This paper describes how CARE’s unifying framework was used at a conference on urban poverty in Dhaka in February 2006. A process document, this shows how the unifying framework and hierarchy of causes of poverty can be practically applied.

WSUP is an organisation set up by NGOs and companies (CARE International UK, WWF, Water Aid, RWE Thames Water, Halcrow Group, Unilever). Its mission is to advance the Millennium Development Goals for water, sanitation, and associated health benefits through multi-sector, stakeholder partnerships delivering sustainable, equitable, and affordable water and sanitation services to the urban poor in developing countries.

This is a report of a workshop, Building Governance in Cities: learning from livelihoods based projects, held March 29 – 31, 2004 in Lusaka, Zambia, and primarily funded by DFID under the auspices of CARE Zambia's PROSPECT project. Rather than seeking to capture everything that was discussed, the report highlights some of the key issues that shed light on how CARE International might proceed with governance in cities work.

WSUP is an organisation set up by NGOs and companies (CARE International UK, WWF, Water Aid, RWE Thames Water, Halcrow Group, Unilever). Its mission is to advance the Millennium Development Goals for water, sanitation, and associated health benefits through multi-sector, stakeholder partnerships delivering sustainable, equitable, and affordable water and sanitation services to the urban poor in developing countries.

This paper attempts to contextualize urban-rural links and transformation in a specific country, Bangladesh. Discussions in Bangladesh about how to improve urban or rural livelihoods come mostly from an isolated sectoral perspective, not a holistic one that appreciates intersectoral links. Urban and rural poverty tend to be discussed separately, as if they had no connection. This paper seeks to go beyond these discussions to explore rural-urban interactions and suggest how Bangladesh can take advantage of the synergies to reduce both urban and rural poverty.

This report explores how a livelihoods approach to improving the well-being of the urban poor needs a sound evidence base. The paper was prepared as part of a review of the value of a focus on livelihoods with respect to understanding and addressing urban poverty.