Course Overview

The aim of this course is to introduce students with different municipal services, their delivery mechanisms and better ways to improve the service provision.

Course Objectives

The course will help students to gain understanding and knowledge in:

·       Nature and scope of municipal services

·       Legal arrangement of municipal services in context of Bangladesh

·       Level of service standard, service hierarchy and techniques of demand assessment

·       Models associated with designing municipal services

·       Service provision, inequality and measures of inequality of services

·       Understand the nature of conflicts and ways to mitigate the conflicts

·       Political economy of municipal services 

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

At the end of the course the students will be able to:

·       Comprehend the municipal services and their delivery mechanisms;

·       Understand the actors involved in service delivery and mechanisms for effective engagement strategy;

·       Identify how political process led to the decision making and how that can effect a certain group of people e.g. poor communities;

·       Apply theoretical knowledge to estimate service demand;