As citizens, we all wish to ask a range of questions on issues of urban planning and governance. What are the patterns of migration and settlement in the city? What is the urban housing scenario for all sections? Can the present water supply meet the needs of a growing population? What is causing all the pollution in yamuna? What are the efforts being put in to clean it? Has CNG conversion of buses brought down pollution in the city? What has been the ‘success’ of the metro in being a mass transport system? What does the Delhi Masterplan 2021 have to say about availability and distribution of basic services in the city? How can RTI be best used to improve administrative response? What are the ‘development’ plans for the city in the coming years?

It is such and more concerns that we at Hazards Centre seek to provide answers to, using various techniques of research, such as baseline surveys, sample surveys, secondary data analysis etc. We emphasize on participatory processes while gaining information from communities on their issues. Many of these researches are undertaken on requests from specific groups. Using research data, we produce in-depth reports, policy documents, papers and pamphlets. These are disseminated widely to organisations and alliances of the urban poor, through verbal, printed, visual, and electronic means, a process that leads to collective advocacy efforts towards framing of alternate policy framework.

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