Baan Mankong STATS
Progress Update -

January 2003 to September 2007

WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED TO DATE

The tables below describe the progress achieved by the Baan Mankong upgrading program up to September 2007. 
Initiatives are underway in 226 cities and Bangkok districts, in 68 provinces.

 

Table 1:  Progress for Baan Mankong; January 2003 to September 27, 2007


Total number of projects approved

495 projects (some cover several communities, in differing circumstances - we can say there are 957 community projects - some in community collborations)

Number of districts and cities where the programme is underway

226 cities in 68 provinces (out of 76 total provinces in Thailand)

Number of communities involved

957 communities

Number of families covered

52,776 families

Total budget approved :

  • Upgrading Subsidy
  • Housing and land purchase loans

 

1. US$ 45 million
2. US$ 46.9 million

 

Table 2 shows the different kinds of projects supported – with nearly two thirds of them involving upgrading in situ .

Table 2:  Types of upgrading project supported by Baan Mankong 

Number of projects

Number of families

Percentage

On the same site  (includes in-situ upgrading, in-situ reblocking or reconstruction, and land sharing)

427

33,634

64%

Nearby relocation

213

6,979

13%

Relocation  (farther away than 5 kms)

315

11,840

22%

Shelter house for homeless

2

310

1%

TOTAL

957 projects

52,776
Households


100%

 

Table 3 shows the kinds of land tenure that the projects achieved. Overall, long-term land tenure security was provided to 10,794 families (83 per cent of the total).

Status of land tenure after project

Number of projects

Number of families

Percentage

Co-operative land ownership

587

22,898

43%

Long-term lease to community co-operative

219

20,687

39%

Short-term lease to community co-operative (less than 5 years)

54

4,195

8%

Permission to use land

97

4,994

9%

TOTAL

957

52,776

100%

 

Projects Organised by Nature of Housing Problem

Number of projects

Number of families

Percentage

Solving eviction problems, or housing after fires, floods or debt crises

256

12,936

25%

Resettling Scattered Squatters

409

25,985

49%

Securing Tenure in Existing Slums

252

12,381

23%

Developing New Communities in New Sites

40

1,474

3%

TOTAL

957

52,776

100%

 

Some Significant breakthroughs to Consider

Of the 52,776 households

 
     
     

 

This shows cleartly that a city-wide process can detect and deal effectively with eviction problems in a very effective ways, on a city-wide scale and in collaboration with all the key local actors.

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