3.7 Lagos

Question 1

Define a top down strategy:

Answer 1

A larger strategy that provides benefits to companies and the rich hoping the excess wealth trickles down to provide benefits for the poor.

Question 2

Define a bottom up strategy:

Answer 2

A strategy that invests in poorer communities so that they can work more often and provide benefits to the community.

Question 3

List some advantages of top down strategies:

Answer 3

• achieve large improvements to the whole city.
• carry out higher cost projects that communities and NGO’s would struggle to fund.
• address economic, social and environmental sustainability

Question 4

List some advantages of bottom up strategies:

Answer 4

• planned with the local community so the project has their support and can target the issues that concern the community the most.
• funded by donations from more developed countries so there is low cost to the people helped and the government.

Question 5

Lost some disadvantages of top down strategies:

Answer 5

• very expensive, can cost billions of USD
• Don’t always have support of communities which may ignore the improvements completely.
• may not help those who need help the most, some strategies effect the poor more negatively than the rich.

Question 6

Disadvantages of bottom up stratergies:

Answer 6

• smaller scale so projects reach fewer people.
• funds may be limited, especially during economic recessions when the need is greatest.
• can lack coordination, several NGO’s with the same aims working seperately.

Question 7

How is Lagos’ water supply effected by its development:

Answer 7

• only 40% of the city is connected to the state water supply
• the state water company supplies less than half of what is needed.

Question 8

How are Lagos’ services effected by its development?

Answer 8

• there aren’t enough schools for the population and many families can’t afford to send their children to school.
• there aren’t enough health care facilities and many people can’t afford to pay for treatment.