Strengthening urban slum upgrading and urban governance in cities in Southeast Asia

1. 改进评估贫民窟改造对机构能力建设的影响的方法，从而对贫困社区减贫的长期连续性产生影响。这些经验可以适用于发达国家和发展中国家的贫困住区；

1. Improve the approach to evaluating the impact of slum upgrading in building institutional capacity, and thereby, on the longer-term continuity of poverty reduction for poor communities. These lessons can be applied in impoverished settlements in developed and developing countries; 2. Enhance best practice in planning upgrading projects and design of governance frameworks. These lessons can be applied throughout Asia - a region to which Australia is closely linked; 3. Make a substantial contribution to scholarly literature on urban upgrading and governance; 4. Strengthen international linkages between Australian researchers and key scholars in the USA, Canada, Philippines, Vietnam and Indonesia.