1. Poverty Pocket Situational Analysis
A Joint Initiative of : UN Habitat and Water Aid India
Implemented By: Sambhav and Municipal Corporation, Gwalior

2. SESI
 Bhopal, Gwalior, Indore, Jabalpur, are among the
first Indian cities to work in cooperation with UN-
HABITAT, the State Government of Madhya
Pradesh to ensure that investments in the water
and sanitation sector reach the urban poor in these
cities..

3. Why SESI?

SESI is being undertaken to demonstrate and
develop approaches for slum improvement
focusing on safe sanitation and hygiene.
 Promote pro-poor water and sanitation
governance.

To be able to influence adoption of community
approaches, including community financing and
low cost technology options to influence larger
urban sanitation coverage

4. Problem in initiating the process

Basic Information Not Available on:
 Slums
 BPL Data

5. What had to be done

5000 households to be chosen for the program
implementation, these could be one slum having
5000 households or many slums having 5000
households.
 Focus on deprived and unserved pockets

Survey of 149 notified of which 5000 population or
cluster had to be chosen.

6. How do we do it?
 Survey of all 149 notified slums

Area of slums

Sanitation facilities

Roads

Drinking and domestic use water
 Drainage
 Defecation
 Tools to be used

PRA- Participatory rural appraisal

FGD- Focus group discussion

Primary Data – Teachers, Community, Leaders, Ward Officers

Eye Sight Viewing

Survey format- Slum Profiling

7. Filling the slum profile form

Respondents
 Municipal Corporation Employees
 Ward Officers
 Community

Focus Group Discussion
 Record data coming from community

8. Pre-Survey Activities

Training and orientation of:

Survey Volunteers
 Municipal Corporation Employees

Ward Level Officers
 Focusing on:

How to do a PRA

Explaining and trying the survey format

Key focus areas to be recorded
 Selecting respondents
 Forming Teams:

20 Teams of 80 People
 2 NGO Volunteers
 1 Municipal Corporation Representative
 1 Ward Officer

9. Why Gwalior?

32.9% of the households live below poverty line.

28% do not have any access to toilet facility.

31% of population defecating in the open.
 40% of drains are not lined
 38% of the households dump waste in the open
 Only 18% of the total households have access to a sewer or
septic tank
 82% of the Poverty Pockets have no access to piped water
supply
 82% of the households let waste water flow into open drains
and streets

10. Gwalior- At a Glance
Total No of PPs Identified 229
Total Households in PPs 60,787
Number of Households in PPs living Below Poverty Line 10,452
% of in PPs household living in PPs Below Poverty Line 17.19
(average)
% hh in PPs not covered with piped water supply (average) 34.86
% hh in PPs not covered with toilets (average) 31.51
% hh in PPs with access to improved water source (average) 96.11
% hh in PPs with access to improved sanitation (average) 68.49
% hh living in the poverty pockets defecating in open 31.50
% hh living in the poverty pockets having individual toilets 62.07
% hh living in the poverty pockets depending on tankers, 3.89
vendor provided water or unprotected wells and springs
% hh living in the poverty pockets with piped water supply 65.14
PP stands for Poverty Pocket