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Occupy London protestors outside St Paul's Cathedral.
Statistics: The middle tells you nothing about the extremes
Insight, 24 October 2012
A woman in a yellow sari and wearing a facemask is standing in a field of crops. She is putting the plants into a bag tied around her waist.
Resilience through flexibility – the story of peri-urban agricultural workers in India
Article, 06 June 2022
Aerial view of desert refugee camp with makeshift homes.
Silent battles, resounding strength: the lives of transgender refugees in Kenya
… often get lost when data, information and experiences are gathered about the wider LGBTQI+ community.  IIED, Amka Africa Justice Initiative …
Insight, 21 November 2023
A field of bare earth covered with rows of dried stalks.
Climate, health and urban informal economies – stories of need and change
Article, 07 June 2022
A pick up truck lies mostly submerged under a water in a flooded street.
Five moments from 2012 that could spell change for the planet
Insight, 07 January 2013
A young woman sits working at a sewing machine in a corner of a room.
Stitching with determination: stories of women garment workers in Indore, India
… working in India’s flourishing garment industry.  Women working from home account for about 14% of urban employment in India . In low- and middle-income … National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Global Health Research Group using UK aid from the UK government. The views expressed are those …
Article, 07 June 2022
Mogadishu attracts people from all over the country, making it the second-fastest growing city in the world, with a 4% annual rate of urbanisation growth (Photo: Baron Reznik, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The challenge of finding money to build shelter in Mogadishu’s informal settlements
… elements needed to support human life. Having a place to come home to, to put your belongings, to gather your family, to cook, … are to break out of the poverty cycle. Further reading Read more about Tana’s work with informal settlements in Mogadishu and Somalia: … Kismayo and Bossaso, 2018 Engaging the gatekeepers: using informal governance resources in Mogadishu, 2017 Informal settlement managers: …
Insight, 28 January 2019
The landscape of the Santurbán páramo.
Unpacking regulatory chill: the case of mining in the Santurbán páramo in Colombia
Insight, 21 December 2020
Floating boards on a lake, hiding the fish farming cages underneath
Lessons for building a natural capital legacy
… are declining, aquaculture harvests are increasing…’ – it’s not just about numbers and trends, it’s also about the implications for future development strategies, for … help technical people communicate the account findings so they hit home with civil servants, with decision-makers and with the general …
Insight, 16 August 2021
Power and politics in Nigeria
… distributed very unequally. To put this in perspective, that is about 90 times less than usage per capita in the United States, 17 times … the world average, similar to Bangladesh and triple that of Haiti. Home grown power But these figures, which are based on power generated … with an independent regulator. Yet for the average citizen or lobby group wanting to know, the implementation plans are shrouded in mystery. …
Insight, 24 February 2011