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Watch the Karachi Rising film
The houses that Karachi's poor want
… the benefits are clear, is the political will there to provide the governance and land needed to build the housing? Given the power of …
Insight, 23 April 2014
Cover for G03488.pdf
The Redesigning of Saiban City, Lahore
Publication, 01 December 2012
Home workers making bouquets (Photo: Siddharth Agarwal/UHRC)
Addressing risks facing informal workers
Project, 01 October 2018
Cover for G00430.pdf
167 Case Study5 Scaling-up Success in the Baimaxuseshan Nature Reserve, China
… Governance …
Publication, 01 January 1970
People gathering branches
Nature-based solutions to climate change: stories from Chile
Insight, 12 December 2019
The slogan on a woman T-shirt in Kitwe, Zambia - emblazoned with 'Addressing water and sanitation challenges through city-wide partnerships' - highlights the community-led approach (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
Local funds allow informal-settlement residents to shape development
Insight, 01 November 2016
A view over a large township
Internal and international influences on urban change
… and how they should go back to what he assumed was their village home. So I asked him: "Do you have a maid?" Yes. "Do you have a cook?" …
Insight, 27 May 2020
Community leaders in the Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia planning with staff from the Namibia Housing Action Group (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
Financial inequalities; defining our age
Insight, 22 August 2017
Women cross a river
Time to move unseen foresters into the limelight
… Globally, forests are home to 1.3 billion indigenous peoples and other local communities … have the right rights and incentives.  Their local models of governance can help protect forests better than many other forms of … that defend IPLC rights. Next come approaches that improve landscape governance: the rights and responsibilities of land and resource use and …
Insight, 14 July 2020
Community reblocking to improve settlement design and the quality of the neighbourhood in Namibia (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
Namibia shows how to support low cost housing
Insight, 13 June 2014