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‘Building back better’ means ‘building back fairer’ after COVID-19
… has aggravated multiple pre-existing inequalities for marginalised groups and individuals. The webinar focused on people living in informal settlements, rural grassroots women and informal workers. Leaders from … to strategically redress structural power imbalances. It also places human dignity and agency at the centre of the action. Swayam Shikshan …
Blog, 31 July 2020
New IIED discussion series focuses on gender at international events
… from 7-13 February 2018. This event is convened by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) and is the world's premier conference … Speakers: Chair:   Liz Carlile , director, IIED Communications Group Panellists: Caroline Moser , emeritus professor, urban social …
News, 31 January 2018
Dealing with COVID-19 in the towns and cities of the global South
… particular risks for the one billion people living in informal urban settlements in the global South. A range of factors make transition of … Africa. Governance and the social contract are key At the heart of a humane progressive response will be a new relationship between citizens, … coronovirus Coronavirus and climate change are two crises that need humanity to unite , blog by Andrew Norton Coronavirus threat looms large …
Blog, 27 March 2020
Introduction to urban crises and forced displacement
… in towns and cities builds on the long-standing work of the Human Settlements research group on urban poverty , governance, risk and resilience. It takes our …
Article, 23 October 2020
From Paris to pandemic: charting the changing landscape for sustainable development
Blog, 01 September 2022
Internal and international influences on urban change
… by the standard and range of housing options available to low income groups, and the provision of water, sanitation, drainage, solid waste … complaining to me about all the unemployed people living in informal settlements and how they should go back to what he assumed was their … do.   We do not know how and when it will be under control and what human and economic costs are still to come, although we already see huge …
Blog, 27 May 2020
Applying the lessons of COVID-19 to the climate crisis
… Roy wrote in April 2020 “Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is … women shouldered the burden of caring; people living in informal settlements had little opportunity for self-protection; and migrant … will have a net negative environmental impact in 16 of the G20 group of the world's largest economies . IIED is proposing using new …
Blog, 23 February 2022
IIED publishes archive on post-quake planning in Haiti
… devastating earthquake. Lucy Earle , principal researcher in IIED’s  Human Settlements research group , says the data will be of critical importance for planners and …
News, 09 January 2020
Towards more inclusive urban health systems for refugee wellbeing
… and other services, and the barriers they face. In Kampala, IIED’s Human Settlements research group worked, for the first time, with a small civil society …
Project, 05 December 2019
Q&A: blog series explores the transition to a predominantly urban world
… work goes back to 1986 when Jorge E. Hardoy (then-director of IIED’s Human Settlements research group ) and I wrote a paper on current and recent global urban trends. …
Article, 16 January 2020