World Resource Institute (WRI) is trying to establishing itself in the urban areas as it has established itself in the rural areas. WRI are meeting with different actors in the urban sector to understand how climate change affects urban cities as they are aware of the impact in the rural poor. WRI focuses on the intersection of the environment and socio-economic development. In this context WRI met with the SPARC team to understand more of our work in the urban areas, what kind of communities we work with, and how does climate change affect the communities. A couple of questions were raised by WRI - how does SPARC view success, how would slums look like 5 or 10 years, which are the trickiest services to get to the slums.
The main points discussed between SPARC and WRI were:
1. Brief about work of SPARC
2. Explaining different federations and how they are formed
3. Talking about the study on poverty and vulnerability and climate change
4. How services are provided to the urban poor
The poverty and vulnerability study, sanitation project and paper on climate change in Cuttack were shared with WRI following which they had few more questions. Once the WRI understands the situation of the urban poor, they will be in a better position to think of which aspect to take on and will then send a proposal to SPARC. One of the main questions they had was, if they were to do something about the effect of climate change in urban cities what would be the most important issue to which we suggested sanitation, since inadequate sanitation facilities effect the environment.
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