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Woman using a public water tap in Kliptown, Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. Johannesburg uses 32 different indicators to assess progress towards its strategic goals. Indicators need to reflect the needs of marginalised and vulnerable groups (Photo: Ray Muzyka, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The value and limits of urban sustainability indicators
Insight, 21 April 2015
Street in Karachi, Pakistan with overflowing sewage.
The real issue is universal access to affordable basic services
… approximately 60% of the 20 million inhabitants live in informal settlements (“slums”); three-quarters of these people do not have access … In a low-density rural settlement, the local eco-system can process human waste, just as it would the wastes from animals in the vicinity, … for all.   Find out more about the work of the Human Settlements group …
Insight, 14 August 2012
Women in Dhaka, Bangladesh queue to get access to a raised tube well; local indicators about access to water are essential for the SDGs (Photo: Development Planning Unit, UCL, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Where are the local indicators for the SDGs?
… are actually needed and at what level of government.   Every interest group has their own recommendations for indicators needed and most … These are statistics needed for each locality. So we know the settlements (and streets) where conditions are particularly poor and … ([email protected]) is a senior fellow in IIED's Human Settlements Group. …
Insight, 09 March 2016
At least 339 people were killed and more than 1 million left homeless across Bangladesh and India after Severe Cyclonic Storm Aila in 2009. This photo shows flooded houses and a burst embankment in Sundarbans, in West Bengal, India (Photo: William Lee-Wright, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Denying denial: climate facts and impacts
… to climate change. Such heavy rainfall causes flooding and much human and physical damage Sea levels are rising , with oceans getting … What does this mean for the future? The Least Developed Countries Group , with support from others, ensured the Paris Agreement on climate … ([email protected]) is director of IIED's Climate Change research group . …
Insight, 14 February 2017
Demonstrating the use of alternative building materials at the Jinja Building Materials Training Centre, Uganda. (Photo: David Dodman)
Reducing risks to urban health and building climate resilience
… Why are the health prospects for residents in informal urban settlements so poor, and what future issues will contribute to making … on Urban Health held recently in Manchester. As part of this event, a group of participants grappled with the ways in which climate change … days. But perhaps the more significant effects of climate change on human health will be on the ways that gradual changes in the physical …
Insight, 17 March 2014
A Congolese vendor sells handkerchiefs on the pavement in central Kampala. Congolese refugees dispersed throughout the city often lack the social and economic support networks necessary to find work or to start a business (Photo: William Monteith/IIED)
Refugee livelihoods in Ugandan cities: mind the gap between policy and practice
… But a nation 5,000 kilometres from the Middle East has now joined the group. Uganda – a country with approximately 60 per cent of the … Monteith ([email protected]) is a researcher with IIED's Human Settlements research group. …
Insight, 22 March 2017
Addressing the needs of urban children and adolescents
… The Human Settlements research group’s work in this field was developed by Roger … Hart and Sheridan Bartlett of the Children’s Environments Research Group (New York University). Dr Bartlett worked part-time in IIED and …
Project, 05 January 2009
Community participation, with a strong focus on women, such as this women's savings group in Southern India, is vital to develop slum-friendly cities (Photo: Maria Andersson/Individuell Människohjälp, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
What might slum dwellers want from the SDGs?
… government commitments made at Habitat I (the first UN Conference on Human Settlements) in Vancouver in 1976; then at Habitat II in Istanbul in … by  David Satterthwaite , a senior fellow in IIED's Human Settlements Group . …
Insight, 05 October 2015
Urban societies can adapt to resource shortage and climate change
News, 26 May 2011
It is estimated that Mumbai has the largest slum population of any city in the world, with more than half of its 12 million people living in informal settlements (Photo: Jon Baldock, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Why we do 'slum' profiles
… blog was drawn from an interview with David Satterthwaite from IIED's Human Settlements Group .  …
Insight, 22 February 2016