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Construction of new homes designed with community inputs in Gorakhpur, India (Photo: Nivedita Mani and team)
Urban communities are devising their own solutions to build resilience
… Anne Tadgell ( [email protected] ) is a visiting fellow in IIED's Human Settlements Group . …
Insight, 24 February 2015
India's urban poor threaten to cripple Mumbai's air and rail links
… development plans too." David Satterthwaite, senior fellow in the Human Settlements Group at the International Institute for Environment and Development, …
News, 29 May 2007
Some of the publications produced by IIED during 2015 (Image: IIED)
IIED's best of 2015: publications
… and, perhaps most importantly, political will.  Read more: IIED's Human Settlements Group is working with partners around the world to identify the …
Article, 31 December 2015
Big changes in distribution of world's urban population
… the paper's author David Satterthwaite, a senior fellow in IIED’s human settlements group. "Most of Europe's great centres of industry are no longer among …
News, 21 October 2007
Closing sacks of sorted plastic for recycling at the Banvari Compound at Dharavi.Credit Meena Kadri. Creative Commons. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en_GB
Work and shelter – two struggles, one reality
… people – one in seven of the world’s population – live in informal settlements in the towns and cities of the global South, where they lack … they are stronger. Diana Mitlin is a Principal Researcher in IIED's Human Settlements Group ([email protected]). …
Insight, 09 December 2013
Syria refugees in Lebanon learn how to make fishing nets, a skill which will help them find work along the northern coast (Photo: DFID, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Why urbanisation matters in responding to humanitarian crises
…   David Dodman ([email protected]) is acting head of IIED's Human Settlements Group and team leader for cities and climate change.  Note: this blog …
Insight, 15 September 2015
Jockin Arputham, who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2014, gives HRH Prince Charles an insight into urban development issues and a tour of Dharavi (Photo: SPARC)
Slum dwellers nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
… world is dramatic. Slum populations, according to the United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN Habitat), are currently growing by a … Davis and military agencies like the Pentagon? How can they add human development perspectives to a military analysis that seems weak on …
News, 13 February 2014
Our new interactive visualisation plots countries’ incomes per capita against their levels of urbanisation
Let's see what the BRICS teach us about urbanisation and economic growth
… rural-urban migration. Brazil's favelas (low-income unplanned settlements) and related inequalities have been a legacy of this. On the … is the second of two recent cities-focused data visuals from IIED's Human Settlements Group . The previous one illustrated the scale and speed of urban …
Insight, 16 September 2014
Annual report 2007/08
… and partners shaping futures all around the globe: in short, the human face of sustainable development. Featured project highlights … scheme, explored by FIELD in a widely disseminated guidebook. Human settlements Supporting slum dwellers’ savings plans:  community savings … between global issues:  IIED’s Poverty and Conservation Learning Group, which includes over 100 organisations, used their annual …
Page, 23 December 2008
An image of the outside of a Malawi bank, showing a ramp installed for wheelchair users. Generally the country is lagging behind in terms of provisions for people with disabilities (Photo: Steve Sharra)
People with disabilities struggle in Malawi's cities
… Goal 11 is specifically to do with cities and calls for cities and human settlements to be made inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. … earn a living as person with disabilities, Kalima decided to start a group to help children with disabilities in her community. …
Insight, 06 June 2016