Bhubaneswar Urban Initiative

ActionAid Association works in 25 states and 2 union territory of India, with a vision to A world without poverty, patriarchy and injustice in which every person enjoys the right to life with dignity.

Bhubaneswar Urban Initiative

since: 2012

- Name Of The Initiative
- Bhubaneswar Urban Initiative
- Working together since
- 2017
- No of slums/wards covered
- 50
- States
- Odisha
- Blocks Reached
- 1
- Districts Reached
- 1
- No Of Girls
- 13240
- No Of Boys
- 12461
- Families Indirectly Benefited
- 2,000
- Vulnerable Groups Reached
- Children, Adolescents, Women, Informal Workers, Construction Workers, Domestic Workers, Street Vendors, Young women, Persons with Disabilities, and Urban Poor
- Name Of Communities
- Schedule Caste & Tribes, OBC, Minorities and Physical disable.
- Focus Areas Of Intervention
- "Children's education and development, Gender sensitization and empowerment of women and girls on safety, security, gender-based violence, discrimination, Skill building for livelihoods enhancement and support for livelihood activities, Access to welfare schemes & entitlements"
- Basic Information about the initiative
- The project Bhubaneswar Initiative is active in 50 slums in Bhubaneshwar, Khordha district, Odisha. The project has been engaged with collectives of socially and economically marginalized urban poor in slums of Bhubaneshwar city. The long term is working to promote education and child protection by ensuring enrolment and retention of children in the government schools, building capacities of parents and community on child rights. The project is also focusing on empowering informal workers, adolescents, women and persons with disabilities by facilitating access to social security schemes and welfare programs, livelihood support and climate change actions, while strengthening their participation through awareness programs, capacity building, trainings and engagement with local administration.
- KeyWords
- Informal Workers, Construction Workers, Domestic Workers, Street Vendors, Women, Young women, Persons with Disabilities, Adolescents, Children and Urban Slum Group
- Families Benefited
- 4800
- Population Benefited
- 23040
- Women Benefited
- 8064
- Men Benefited
- 7373
- Children Benefited
- 7603