Approaches to Basic Service Delivery for the Working Poor: Assessing the Impact of Mahila Housing Trust’s Parivartan Slum Upgrading Programme in Ahmedabad, India

Published as a part of WIEGO’s Urban Policies Briefing Note series, this brief highlights MHT’s work to deliver a slum improvement programme which had a significant impact on the lives of informal workers whose homes double as workplace. MHT partnered with municipal corporations, international organisations, and local slum residents to successfully implement the Parivartan programme to improve access to basic infrastructure in urban slums and improving the quality of life, health and well-being of residents.