ANALYZING ROLE OF COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS (CBOs) IN SLUMS

The attempts aimed at urban poverty reduction and service delivery improvement depend critically on slum dwellers’ collective agency. This research investigates the role and impact of the Community Based Organizations (CBOs) in the slums of East Delhi. In slum upgrading CBOs are often overlooked and undermined due to their informal social identity, flexibility in operations. These CBOs are key actors in social change but often they are considered to be non productive and often questioned for accountability. Through case oriented approach, the research made strong efforts to highlight and discussed the role and impact of CBOs. This case research study was done in 4 slums area in the east Delhi; explain various role and impact of these CBO in improvising slum community. The study critically examines various roles of CBOs and factors enabling them to perform. The study finding yields that collective action taken by CBOs significantly helped slum residents to improve government provided facilities and accessing various entitlements. The CBOs displayed their abilities in solving community problems-short term and long term. There is sturdy relation between CBOs performance and social development. Thus the study argues that these CBOs essential in local development and are indispensible elements in bringing social change in the slums