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A Coca-Cola sign outside a small town in Benin. Bloomberg’s new health initiative will support cities to reduce the consumption of sugary drinks, but this isn't the biggest health challenge facing low-income urban residents (Photo: Lorena Pajares, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Bloomberg and public health: did he get it right?
… of public health : piped water and good quality toilets in each home, functioning drains, paved roads and paths and household waste …
Insight, 07 June 2017
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Heat stress and adaptive capacity of low-income outdoor workers and their families in the city of Da Nang, Vietnam
Publication, 01 October 2013
David Satterthwaite speaking at TEDxHamburg
TEDx Talk: A small change to aid, a big impact on urban poverty
News, 15 July 2013
From left, musicians Wesa Kawesa, Drake and Myko Ouma learn about issues in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Photo: Wesa Kawesa)
Composing songs for conservation - our journey to Bwindi the Impenetrable
… beds for the night were in tents pitched on the edge of the forest, home to the mountain gorillas we wanted to protect. The trip had been … the poorest parts of the world, as is the case in Uganda. Bwindi is home to an estimated 400 endangered mountain gorillas. Located in the … with 23 members of the Batwa tribe and visited their former forest home, where the hunter-gatherers lived in caves and trees alongside the …
Insight, 05 January 2015
Junior climate negotiators participate in a mock negotiation session in a training workshop in Senegal in June (Photo: Enda Energie)
Asian and Pacific officials to build their climate negotiation skills
News, 04 September 2017
Four people sit on the floor to look at a map on the ground.
In her name: securing land tenure for women in Zambia
… on her three-acre farm to deliver a deadly threat: she must leave her home and farm, or he would kill her and her children. “He came with an … International Development (USAID) funded Integrated Land and Resource Governance (ILRG) programme is helping to resolve long-standing tensions … one.Over the past six years, USAID’s Integrated Land and Resource Governance programme and the two local partners have documented the land …
Insight, 14 October 2021
Care workers in Guinea put on protective clothing (Photo: EC/ECHO)
Ebola – what must we learn?
… as these. This means good capacity at the local level in terms of governance, connection and communication. IIED's work with slum dweller … due to be spent on health delivery systems had been stolen. So poor governance is partly to blame for the weak health systems and … heightens the risks of infection spreading. It's a hard choice – stay home and safe, or set off to earn money, making contact with thousands …
Insight, 30 October 2014
Hội An, Vietnam: in many towns in the developing world, street vendors constitute a significant share of total employment in the informal economy (Photo: Khánh Hmoong, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Green economy must work for street vendors as well as Wall Street
… role in climate change mitigation. In India, street traders and home-based workers – representing 11 per cent and 18 per cent …
News, 24 February 2016
Bangladesh: mangrove island reflects people's creativitiy
Insight, 28 March 2011
Shack dwellers from the eThekwini municipality protesting in Durban (Photo: Slum/Shack Dwellers International)
2008 Barbara Ward Lecture: Lindiwe Sisulu on managing relationships between the state and the urban poor
… of Intelligence and Security. She was appointed deputy minister of home affairs in 1996. She has since held a variety of ministerial posts. …
Event, 15 July 2008