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Hundreds of homes are crammed together up the side of a hill
Q&A: Achieving housing rights for all: issues and recommendations
… needed to support the abused. Q: What are the links among densities, informal settlements and the COVID-19 pandemic? While during early … in dense areas, wealthy urban residents are less exposed to the risks of overcrowded housing and poor living conditions. They can enjoy … for the urban poor. More positively, we have seen overlaps in addressing housing insecurity and COVID-19. The combined shelter and …
Article, 22 October 2020
A 'peace wall' in Mukuru, one of the largest slums in Nairobi, Kenya (Photo: Urban ARK)
A special approach to slum upgrading: the Special Planning Area in Mukuru, Nairobi
… More than 100,000 families live in Mukuru, a densely packed informal settlement squeezed between factories to the south-east of … demonstrated the use of community-centred methodologies to identify risks, prioritise these, and develop action plans to address them. It … the different needs and concerns of business owners and informal workers, of house owners and tenants, and of women, men, boys and girls. …
Insight, 18 October 2017
Group of people in discussion seated at a table
Tricky questions and frank discussions: a participatory forum on protracted displacement in Afghanistan
… such as town planning. 2. “We want to expand the city – but new informal settlements block our plans” Urban plans for Jalalabad have … she said. A business owner, who employees 300 locals and displaced workers in Jalalabad, believes that the urban environment provides an … depend on collaboration – and in a context like Afghanistan, facing so many challenges in the months and years ahead, these …
Insight, 10 June 2021
Women pulling fishing nets through shallow water
Steering gender to the centre of the blue economy
… entrepreneurs ('fish mammies') who may also own boats and provide informal credit.  Barriers  While women play a pivotal role in … fish processing factories. While these provide opportunities for wage workers, women in the informal and small-scale processing sector cannot … the views and needs of both women and men will not be captured. This risks exacerbating existing inequalities.  An inclusive blue economy …
Insight, 06 June 2019
Closing sacks of sorted plastic for recycling at the Banvari Compound at Dharavi.Credit Meena Kadri. Creative Commons. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en_GB
Work and shelter – two struggles, one reality
… a billion people – one in seven of the world’s population – live in informal settlements in the towns and cities of the global South, where … SEWA) explained how cooperatives in Ahmedabad offered a way of all workers coming together to ensure that they had more regular work. All … at home or at work), they will not be aware of the many others facing comparable struggles, nor will politicians or civil servants pay …
Insight, 09 December 2013
A group of people standing outside
Event highlights: CBA15 – 15th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change
… action at the global level, and we have a particular focus on work in informal settlements. And at the same time, we're also trying to respond … named KoBoToolbox which allowed to test the mapping of the climate risks and vulnerability of a locality in some regions of the world. I … CBA15 from Panama and is particularly interested in the sessions addressing nature-based solutions (NbS). Projects such as community …
Article, 14 June 2021
CBA13 networking: IIED senior fellow and director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) Saleemul Huq in conversation with Susan Nanduddu, director of the Uganda-based African Centre for Trade and Development
CBA13: event highlights
… called "Trash to Cash". The project works on waste management in the informal settlement of Mukuru in Kenya. Moseti's organisation, Muungano … to learn about the potential of modern technology to mitigate risks faced by slum dweller communities, particularly in relation to … living environments. Founded in 1994 by poor self-employed women workers in the Indian state of Gujarat, MHT now works in 17 cities …
Article, 04 April 2019
Discussing climate resilience in Kinna, northern Kenya.
How do we tell whether climate change adaptation is making headway?
… But how do we check we’re making progress along the right channel? IIED and partners hope to provide an answer by developing the Tracking … in climate adaptation when it says that focusing on outputs risks “emphasizing spending over results”. The report recommended development workers “pilot approaches to better assess the costs, benefits, …
Insight, 06 December 2012