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Table III.

The role of social sector approaches for pro-poor asset adaptation

Level of interventions	Karail	Kamrangirchar
Household level asset-based adaptations through the UPPR and DSK-Shiree project	Self-employment for some extreme poor individuals who were unemployed and wanted to change job Additional labour mobilization for few extreme poor households Informal support networks Use of streets as rent free business yards	Economic diversification through self-employment Skilled employments for adult children Additional labour mobilization for household economic diversification Adjustments in small business enterprises (e.g. limited stock, physical adjustments, covering stock with plastics, arranging higher storages for the stocks) Move to safer places Accumulation of physical assets Sending small children to school Home-based enterprises Improvements in food intake and health seeking behaviour
Community-based adaptation through the UPPR and DSK-Shiree project	Community mobilization and representative community organization Building community infrastructure to prevent or avoid threats Community-based savings and credit schemes	Social organization and capacity building Development of climate proof community-based water supply and sanitation services Collective savings and business enterprises
Formal institutional responses through the UPPR and DSK-Shiree project	Dhaka City Corporation work with the CDCs in Karail to provide infrastructure and services D-WASA decided to provide legal water supply in the slum	No support from city and municipal organizations

Level of interventions	Karail	Kamrangirchar
Household level asset-based adaptations through the UPPR and DSK-Shiree project	Self-employment for some extreme poor individuals who were unemployed and wanted to change jobAdditional labour mobilization for few extreme poor householdsInformal support networksUse of streets as rent free business yards	Economic diversification through self-employmentSkilled employments for adult childrenAdditional labour mobilization for household economic diversificationAdjustments in small business enterprises (e.g. limited stock, physical adjustments, covering stock with plastics, arranging higher storages for the stocks)Move to safer placesAccumulation of physical assetsSending small children to schoolHome-based enterprisesImprovements in food intake and health seeking behaviour
Community-based adaptation through the UPPR and DSK-Shiree project	Community mobilization and representative community organizationBuilding community infrastructure to prevent or avoid threatsCommunity-based savings and credit schemes	Social organization and capacity buildingDevelopment of climate proof community-based water supply and sanitation servicesCollective savings and business enterprises
Formal institutional responses through the UPPR and DSK-Shiree project	Dhaka City Corporation work with the CDCs in Karail to provide infrastructure and servicesD-WASA decided to provide legal water supply in the slum	No support from city and municipal organizations

Source: Findings summarized from 40 extreme poor interviews