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Housing in informal settlement.
Getting housing back onto the development agenda in the time of COVID-19
… No one wants to live in a tiny illegal shack with no piped water, no sanitation, no public services and at high risk of eviction. … quiet space and homework but also for inclusion. Inclusion in piped water sanitation, household waste collection and electricity systems. …
Insight, 02 October 2020
A busy side street in the settlement of Dharavi
Invisiblising cities: the obsession with national statistics and international comparisons
… them to see, for instance, the quality of housing or of provision for water and sanitation in each street or ward/district. Censuses are … precision where the worst quality housing or the worst provision for water and sanitation are located. At a meeting I attended in Sao Paulo … conducted at national level. The same national approach applies for water and sanitation data used to monitor progress on the Sustainable …
Insight, 25 February 2020
Cover for G00408.pdf
Action-learning to develop and test upstream-downstream transactions for watershed protection services: a diagnostic report from Segara River basin, Indonesia
… markets for watershed protection services and improved livelihoods. Water resources in Indonesia face increasingly complex management problems, associated with deterioration in water availability, quantity and quality. Policy to date has emphasized … understanding of the need for, or means of, watershed protection. In general there are no direct links between the water charges paid by …
Publication, 01 January 2003
Group of people posing for a photo
Making strides to improve health and climate resilience in Zimbabwe’s cities
… face multiple health challenges. These are often linked to inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene (collectively known as WASH), air … facing acute challenges. As one urban farmer explained, accessing water can be extremely time consuming and highly inequitable: “We travel … Masvingo is a milestone achievement,” according to ZCIEA’s Secretary General Wisborn Malaya. “Our advocacy and research are beginning to be …
Insight, 24 August 2021
Cover for G01836.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 12 Sparkling ideas in Campoalegre, Colombia: managing the watershed to sustain the water supply
… ideas in Campoalegre, Colombia: managing the watershed to sustain the water supply Cecilia Gomez B. and Alfonso Rojas P. Introduction … when the existing process for the development of public property water system was built, there were 120 users as `it has an educational … and makes the years, the user population has almost tripled, ideas of general interest, more understandable but there have not been any …
Publication, 01 January 1999
A seated man cleaning a crutch.
Disability, inclusion and cities: can COVID-19 trigger change?
… living in informal settlements have been not only affected by the general consequences of the pandemic, including decreasing support from … impairments in Indonesia). Lower income decreases access to food and water. Reduced educational opportunities: in Indonesia, parents of … organisations are well placed to act: FEDURP and Kaki Kota delivered water, food parcels and face masks (transparent masks for sign language …
Insight, 01 October 2020
A view over a large township
Internal and international influences on urban change
… housing options available to low income groups, and the provision of water, sanitation, drainage, solid waste collection and other public … arising when governments do not meet their responsibilities – for water, sanitation, drainage, all-weather roads, health care, schools, … hospitals and wider health-care systems, police, emergency services, water supply, sanitation, solid waste collection and management.  When …
Insight, 27 May 2020
A toilet block in Mumbai, India, where people living in different informal settlements experience distinct forms of inadequate sanitation (Photo: Renu Desai)
Sanitation in informal settlements: a networked problem
… and dignity, contaminated domestic environments and the pollution of water supplies within slums and beyond into downstream rural areas. My … need to be flexible enough to operate across places and sectors from water and sanitation to food and nutrition, housing, land, education and … Understanding sites of entitlement is important if we are to develop general standards that are flexible enough to meet what people need and …
Insight, 26 August 2015
Hundreds of densely packed houses climb into the mountains
Dealing with COVID-19 in the towns and cities of the global South
… by 4 metres. Shacks are often adjacent to each other, with a single water tap and pit latrine shared between 5-10 families. There is very … (PDF) . This makes it likely that the virus will spread rapidly. Water supplies may be limited both because of the cost and because there is no access to piped water within the dwelling or even the plot. In sub-Saharan Africa, …
Insight, 27 March 2020
People gathering branches
Nature-based solutions to climate change: stories from Chile
Insight, 12 December 2019