BUPSP

Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives (Philanthropy) is a part of a group of philanthropic institutions having a common identity of Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives. The Foundation aspires to facilitate a just, equitable, humane, and sustainable society with the support of organizations having significant potential to contribute to social change in a synergistic manner. Philanthropy works across the country in several domains, including gender, children, migrant workers, small and marginal farmers, and other vulnerable sections of society.
Philanthropy has supported Bangalore Health Response (BHR) initiative during the COVID crisis in the city during the pandemic. The Programme worked with slum communities with the aim of providing humanitarian relief and promoting COVID-appropriate behavior. Philanthropy has built good relationships with many NGOs in the city, with the city administration, Civil Society, and Community at large. Philanthropy would like to harness the potential built by the BHR Programme, continue the engagement with slum communities, NGOs, and government structures and convert this emergency health response into a longer-term Programme.

The Philanthropy seeks to implement the Bangalore Urban Poor Special Project (BUPSP)-Promoting slum communities' access to public service deliveries and entitlements. BUPSP project aim is to provide a platform to access both individual and community rights and entitlements of the citizens living in the Bangalore slums and adjacent areas where a sizable number of slum dwellers is residing.

In the implementation of the BUPSP project, Philanthropy will partner with 13 NGOs/ Civil Society Organizations to work in around 332 slums of Bangalore and reach out to an estimated 1.3 lakh households for ensuring access to schemes, entitlements, and public services; promoting land rights, housing rights and improving civic amenities in the slums; building CBOs and improving the participation of slum communities in urban governance processes for:

a. Ensuring access to schemes, entitlements, and public services

b. Promoting land rights, housing rights, and improving civic amenities in the slums

c. Building CBOs and improving the participation of slum communities in urban governance processes