Baseline Needs Assessment
Kaula Bandar Baseline Needs Assessment (2008)
In this initial study (funded by the Ford Foundation), PUKAR researchers engaged in an extensive Baseline Needs Assessment of health problems in the community by implementing a 92 question survey on nearly 1000 households.The survey documented livelihood, assets, income, access to key government documents, access to schools, access to water supply, access to sanitation, hygiene practices, the prevalence of common diseases, and mortality, among other issues. Small snapshots of data from this study are presented in the two tables below.
Table 1: Basic statistics on Kaula Bandar
(from PUKAR’s 2008 Baseline Needs Assessment)
| 20 years or more in Kaula Bandar | 47% |
| 10 years or more in Kaula Bandar | 69% |
| 1 year or less in the Kaula Bandar | 0.42% |
| No ration card | 33% |
| % of those with ration card who get wheat, rice, sugar, or oil | 1.7-2.3% |
| >500 rupees per month spend on health | 46% |
| Number of health providers in the community | 11 |
| Number of health providers with an MBBS | 1 |
Table 2: Sanitation and water statistics in Kaula Bandar
(from PUKAR’s 2008 Baseline Needs Assessment)
| Kaula Bandar | Mumbai slums(NFHS-3)6 | |
| Households with piped water | 0.1% | 99.7% |
| % of households spending more than 150 rupees per month on water | 90% | – |
| Access to a non-shared toilet | 3% | 21% |
| No toilet access at all(use of the open sea) | 14% | 1.6% |
| Homes that flood during the monsoon | 31% | – |