Poverty

Our research on poverty highlights effective ways of addressing its root causes and practical steps for improving access to basic needs

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Informal settlements (slums)

A man standing next to a group of women.

Grant-making for locally-led action: views from the national champions

20 March 2024

People standing and walking on a street with informal stalls

COVID-19’s web of impact: rising inequality and intersectional vulnerabilities

Tracy C. Kajumba and Andrew Norton
30 May 2023

Mountain Gorilla in Bwindi National Park, Uganda

PCLG: a history of the learning group

Two women wearing face masks are sitting at a table covered in boxes and bags of vegetables. Together they are preparing food.

Reframing the pandemic: COVID-19 relief by community networks tackles roots of poverty

Thomas Kerr and Cecilia Tacoli
30 May 2022

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Urban poverty, food security and climate change

01 March 2013

A young woman sits working at a sewing machine in a corner of a room.

Stitching with determination: stories of women garment workers in Indore, India

07 June 2022

Urban poverty

A programme of work showing how IIED is working to reduce urban poverty and to change misleading views about urbanisation.

Publications

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From risks to resilience

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Scaling up community-led COVID-19 responses: five key lessons

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Climate change, migration and vulnerability to trafficking

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Education and learning for inclusive development

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Poverty-centred local adaptation in Mozambique

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Acquiring housing – understanding outcomes, improving choices and “leaving no one behind”

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Engaging with the urban poor and their organizations for poverty reduction and urban governance

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Time to redress the globally unjust cost of climate change

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Scale and Nature of Urban Change in the South, The

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Muungano nguvu yetu (unity is strength): 20 years of the Kenyan federation of slum dwellers

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A mountain gorilla

Local economic development through gorilla tourism

Archived Project

Seeds collected from a farm in Chiapas, Mexico, for replanting and use in traditional medicine. (Photo: Ina Porras)

Conditional transfers for poverty reduction and ecosystem management

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Tom Pye helped redesign the Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG) newsletter, a monthly bulletin for people working on biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation (Image: PCLG)

A valuable learning experience

Insight, 19 April 2016

A farmer in Bangladesh (Photo: ranakmartin/CIMMYT, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Poverty Environment Partnership meeting focuses on Sustainable Development Goals

News, 26 February 2016

The mountain gorilla is among the endangered species at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, which was the focus of a a recent radio show series on conservation efforts (Photo: Dilys Roe/IIED)

Broadcasting to Bwindi

Insight, 28 July 2015

The Retiro district of Buenos Aires features affluent shopping and business areas close to a large shanty town where many homes don't have running water (Photo: Mark Edwards/IIED)

Urbanisation and the environment

Archived Project

About the architecture of aid

About the architecture of aid

Article, 08 July 2015

In urban and rural communities across the world, low income families lack the shelter and services they need to live with dignity, security, health and prosperity (Photo: IIED)

References: how can decentralised finance drive sustainable development?

Article, 08 July 2015

Delegates at the 20th Poverty Environment Partnership (PEP) meeting integrate poverty and environmental issues into the global agenda in Edinburgh in late May (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)

Putting ourselves out of business – forward planning for the PEP

Insight, 29 June 2015

Ladeh Panjang Wetlands. Photo: Luke Mackin

Building evidence on how biodiversity affects poverty

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