Integrated improvement program for the urban poor (IIPUP); project identification and design

First, the goals, purposes, and limitations of IIPUP are highlighted and criteria for classifying target groups examined. Next, individual components of IIPUP projects are discussed. Organizational arrangements for integrating urban services are analyzed and possible financing arrangements, including cost recovery and funding mechanisms to support service integration, are evaluated. Principles to be followed in establishing a legal framework for IIPUP projects are addressed and strategies to initiate changes in the framework described. Finally, the need for flexibility and gradualism in developing IIPUP projects is considered, with particular reference to the selection of target groups, geographic extension, the introduction of program components into individual projects, and contingency planning. Appended are case studies from both domestic and international experience and descriptions of several types of IIPUP projects.