This webinar will present India’s unique experience in scaling up slum upgrading and affordable housing from projects to national programs and policies in the past decade. Today, India is a major global economic player in world with rapid economic and population growth. This growth has met with increased urbanization and as a result increased growth of urban slums across the country. In 2011, 31% of India’s total population of 1.2 billion was living in urban areas projected to grow at a rate of 2.3%. India’s slum population has double in 10 years from 43 million in 2001 to 93 million in 2011 with a projected growth rate of 5%. Past national programs focused primarily on rural development with only incremental efforts to address the growing challenge of slums through small-scale projects on water supply, sanitation, health, education and income generation. These efforts led to increased challenges that did not address the larger issues in cities.
