Subject(s): SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness -- Community development -- Urban poor -- Developing countries -- Livelihoods and poverty context : Livelihood approach- conceptual issues and definitions, economic development, urbanization and poverty -- Understanding the situations and strategies of poor people : urban context and poor people, seeking an understanding of poverty that recognizes rural- urban differences and rural- urban linkages, living in present, investing in future- household security among poor -- Policy implications of urban livelihoods analysis : Municipal government, urban economic growth and poverty reduction- identifying the transmission mechanisms between growth and poverty, support for livelihood strategies, social capital local networks and community development, tenure and shelter in urban livelihoods, health, health services and environmental health, infrastructure and environment health services, spatial planning, access and infrastructure, urban livelihoods- issues for urban governance and management -- Urban poverty reduction- lessons from experience : Reducing urban poverty in India- lessons from projects supported by DFID, Jamaica urban poverty project, strengthening urban livelihoods in Zambia- PUSH II and PROSPECT, lessons from the experience of some urban poverty reduction programs, issues in designing new projects and programs