Ara, JinnatHossain, Nusrat ZaitunDas, Narayan ChandraBayes, Abdul2022-02-232022-02-2320172016-08-091099-1328http://hdl.handle.net/10361/16320This article was published in The Journal of International Development [Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.] and the definite version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3241 The Article's website is at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jid.3241We use cross-sectional data to assess the impact of the programme on livelihood where propensity score matching technique has been adopted in analysing the data. Results show that programme participants' self-employment, income, food consumption, saving, health seeking behaviour, empowerment and social awareness have been increased significantly. However, we find that addressing sanitation and hygiene practices remains the key challenge. So to bring a sustainable solution to the issue, a collective effort of slum owners, dwellers and slum community people along with program is needed. These findings are potentially important for expansion and replication of this type of programme.en-USBangladeshFood consumptionHealth-seeking behaviourHygieneSanitationJournal Articlehttps://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3241