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Boat on a lake and a waterfall in the background
Making natural capital accounting an institution in Uganda
… the National Environment Management Agency with the Ugandan Bureau of Statistics, National Planning Authority, other government ministries, … Interesting story or technical turn-off? Project team members shared data tables and charts, and rattled off figures: 10 national parks and … Masiga talk about the importance of ‘simplifying’ messages and using data to tell interesting stories. As he presented key findings from the …
Insight, 11 December 2020
Rwanda is planning to produce land, water and forest accounts to inform policy around managing its rich natural resources.(Photo: Catherine Nomura, Creative Commons via Flickr)
First steps in communication: raising awareness
… of what had happened so far. This could prepare the ground for when data had been collected – land accounts are the first accounts planned. … of natural capital accounting as a tool for collecting and organising data for inclusion in planning and policy processes; in fact, some … cautioned. Likewise, walking into the Rwanda National Institute of Statistics  we were presented with four banner-sized infographics …
Insight, 12 May 2015
Cover for 6052IIED.pdf
O.K, The Data's Lousy, But It's All We've Got (Being a Critique of Conventional Methods)
… recently speaking off the record. The implication that official statistics are the only means through which one can learn about the … What will be done instead is first to illustrate just how lousy the data actually are and, more importantly, what fundamental mistakes can … and is a primary reason for the pestiferous nature of the data it purports to generate. …
Publication, 01 January 1993
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Climate change and urban health vulnerability
Publication, 01 March 2016
Informal settlements lining the railway tracks in Mumbai (Photo: gloogun, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Ward diaries: crucial evidence for planning in Mumbai's slums
… government agencies need reliable, relevant and up-to-date data. This information must cover the different levels within a city – … International , formed in more than 30 nations, are collecting data on slums not only for hundreds of cities (as in the Know Your City … Municipal Corporation, you go to these meetings with city-level statistics. But when you talk to ward-level staff or ward politicians, …
Insight, 28 November 2016
A beach that has been washed away
Assessing climate adaptation in Mexico
Article, 30 October 2019
The Poverty-Forests Toolkit: showing what forests mean to the poor
… By developing analytical capacity, the project helped to inform data collection and enhance the profile of forestry in national policies … The Poverty-Forests Toolkit combines national-level analysis (current data and data collection practices) with local-level participatory … and explore options for reflecting these roles more effectively in statistics. …
Project, 11 June 2008
This map of the covered and open drains in Jamshed Town, Karachi illustrates how communities have led on installing sewers and drains (Image: Orangi Pilot Project–Research and Training Institute)
Reducing risks in urban centres: think 'local, local, local'
… are dangerous places to live and work. This can be seen in aggregate statistics for nations' urban populations that show (for instance) high … and piped water at home is lower today than it was in 1990 (PDF) . Data and local action Cities in high-income countries also have … censuses, vital registration systems, surveys, hospital records and data on air pollution. Reporting on road accidents, for example, has …
Insight, 08 May 2017
Busy commuter traffic
What drives the world’s changing urban geographies?
… had over a million inhabitants in 2020). But we have very little data on how cities function. Urban population statistics can show us where the largest cities are and which urban … 500,000 people. Track how this has changed since 1800 in our cities data visual (Image: IIED/Kiln) Urban population statistics and global …
Insight, 23 April 2020
Informal housing and tall buildings behind.
Definitions matter – part one
… also adjusted for family size. Rural or urban? You would think that statistics on rural and urban populations are not controversial. But if … city boundaries are used. Slum dwellers or not? How accurate are the statistics on slum populations? Previous blogs described the lack of data about what the UN defines as slum dwellers: “those lacking improved …
Insight, 10 November 2021