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A family living in a cemetery in Cebu City, the Philippines. A lack of affordable housing has led some 100 families to set up home among the mausoleums (Photo: Karl Fluch, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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Who can we trust to measure urban poverty?

Old Indonesia coins. In Indonesia, like the UK, the income of the poorest 40 per cent has to grow at twice the rate of the national average if the income gap is to stay the same (Photo: Anis Eka, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

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How serious are the SDGs about tackling inequality?

About the architecture of aid

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About the architecture of aid

Urban poverty

How IIED is working to reduce urban poverty and to change misleading views about urbanisation More in this collection

Langrug informal settlement, South Africa, May 2014 (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)

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Introduction to urban poverty

Geographic patterns are seen out the window of an airplane traveling between Mwanza and Dar Es Salam, Tanzania on March 20, 2015 (Photo: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)

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Connecting cities to basins

Air balloon photograph of children while mapping Mathare informal settlement, Nairobi.

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Mapping for food safety

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Gorilla Friendly™ Manual

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Gutuura Neeza N'ingagi™

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Okukora N'okuguza Ebintu Omu Iziina Ry'okurinda Engagi™

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Building resilience to climate change through social protection: Lessons from MGNREGS, India

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Financing a climate-resilient MGNREGS

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Monitoring and evaluation for non-professionals

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Roadside stalls

For street vendors, finding water and toilets isn’t just a nuisance, it’s cutting into earnings

Blog, Aug 2019

People gather around a table at an outdoor meeting

Tackling widespread hunger in cities means listening to the urban poor

Blog, Aug 2019

A street of tenements

The rise of Nairobi’s concrete tenement jungle

Blog, Jul 2019

Front cover of a flyer

IIED's pro-poor gorilla tourism project shortlisted for major award

News, Oct 2018

In Mexico City, the Metrobus BRT system carries roughly 250,000 people daily. It cuts workers' travel times and also helps to reduce carbon emissions (Photo: City Clock Magazine, Creative Commons via Flickr)

How Bus Rapid Transit can make housing affordable to low-income households

Blog, Jun 2018

A map shows new walking trails at the edge of the park that have been developed to encourage tourists to explore more of Bwindi and spend money on local products (Photo: Peter Nizette)

If you go down to the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise…

Blog, Oct 2017

A family living in a cemetery in Cebu City, the Philippines. A lack of affordable housing has led some 100 families to set up home among the mausoleums (Photo: Karl Fluch, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Who can we trust to measure urban poverty?

Blog, Jun 2017

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Southwest Uganda (Photo: Mariel Harrison)Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in southwest Uganda (Photo: Mariel Harrison)

Taking a more rigorous approach to evaluation

Article, May 2017

New tools can measure the benefits of ecosystems such as coastal mangrove forests, such as this one in Mexico. Mangroves provide protection from coastal flooding and erosion, as well as nutrition for marine life (Photo: Peyri Herrera, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Action to protect nature and tackle poverty gathers momentum

Blog, Nov 2016

Old Indonesia coins. In Indonesia, like the UK, the income of the poorest 40 per cent has to grow at twice the rate of the national average if the income gap is to stay the same (Photo: Anis Eka, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

How serious are the SDGs about tackling inequality?

Blog, Oct 2016

Washing in Kolkata. Urban poor groups must engage with city government and utility companies in order to become drivers for change (Photo: Wolfgang Sterneck, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Can global funds be accountable at the local level?

Blog, Aug 2016

Black grouse fight in Vaala, Finland. The country is committed to protecting biodiversity under its implementation of the sustainable development goals (Photo: Markus Varesvuo/NPL/Barcroft)

Will the UK be left behind on sustainable development?

Blog, Jul 2016