DSK is working with the bottom 10% of extreme poor in urban slum out of 24% total extreme poor in country. DSK selected the working area under Dhaka City Corporation one is near by Gulshan and another is closed to Keranigonj. Within two areas DSK started work maintaining following process aligning with its defined 12 criteria for finally selecting the Beneficiary Households. Transect walk: DSK staff started transect walk for locating the concentration of extreme poor in the said project area. As they come from different regions of Bangladesh and they are involved with different types of income generating activities though it is very hard to identify the person who lives in under poverty line and the bottom 10% of extreme poor out of total 24%. Staff firstly identified the extreme poor concentrate location among the working area physical observing and initial discussion considering occupation, house rent and the external environment of those. Rapport Building: As a second step of this process DSK started for building rapport with the community people, social leader, other NGOs, service providing agencies, local government institutions and representatives, Landlords and poor community as well. They tried to get a glimpse about the people, their socioeconomic status, and timing to get them at home, problems of the poor community, cultural practices, and services available and so on. Through this process DSK have made a nice relationship with the community people and other supporting agents for this project. Exercise of PRA tools: DSK selected three of its PRA tools for identifying and selecting the extreme poor households. Those are Social mapping, Wealth ranking and Venn diagram Social mapping: In both working areas of DSK conducted social mapping considering the number of extreme poor people living within the slum. Doing social map DSK wanted to see the other resources (road, bazaar, school, health centres, samity office etc.) in that community and exact location of household of poor people. And find out the total number of specific location. Finally they prepared an initial list based on the social mapping findings for poor people. And within the lists they segregated landlord and rentees to be focused on extreme poor. Wealth Ranking: After getting the initial list of extreme poor HHs (all rentees) then DSK arranged another sitting with those people for identifying the extreme poor. The three categories of economic status (Rich, poor & extreme poor) they fit and arranged people by name considering their practical situation one by one. Though this step another list have got of extreme poor. Physical verification: After finishing the wealth ranking DSK started door to door for physically verifying the real situation of each and every HHs who is listed. During this physical verification a detail interview has been conducted with the respective HH member available at home aligning with the set 12 criterion of DSK for beneficiary selection. Through this step validity of information was also checked of which got from the community people during wealth ranking. And it is also happened that some BHHs have to drop due to its authenticity. Cross checking: There was a cross checking method have been also used for having ascertain about the BHHs through the discussion with neighbours, close relatives of the HHs and others. Through this process validity of information has been ensured. Venn diagram: A good number of venn diagram also been conducted for finding out the sources of service providers, MFIs, and other necessary institutions. This venn diagram helps us to produce a concrete report on the working area’s scenarios. 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