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Housing with a small garden in front of the building.
Community-led housing: how to deliver housing for people and the planet
… as a commodity and the persistence and often expansion of informal settlements is restricting people's access to adequate housing. Across … of the importance of safe and secure housing as a foundation for human development. All of them are asking how to deliver it. Yet few … in the first session of the Inter-governmental open-ended working group on adequate housing for all to call for developing a roadmap to …
Project, 09 May 2024
The Cantagalo favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Many informal settlements are built on steep slopes, exposing them to landslides (Photo: Outdoor Life, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Can one billion people in informal settlements be protected from climate change?
… It is crucial the one billion people who live in informal settlements around the world are not forgotten as cities develop climate … ([email protected]) is senior fellow in IIED's Human Settlements research group . This blog originally appeared on the Climate Home website , and … Can one billion people in informal settlements be protected from climate change? …
Insight, 06 March 2018
Closely built shacks. In the background, trees. In the foreground, a river and, on the other side of it, smoke.
Introduction to urban health equity: addressing risks, promoting gender equality and fostering wellbeing in informal settings
… Globally, there are two billion informal labourers , while informal settlements provide hazardous, low-quality shelter to more than one … concerns. This work builds on the longstanding experience of IIED's Human Settlements research group .  Related work has explored urban food insecurity : we have …
Article, 09 June 2022
The slogan on a woman T-shirt in Kitwe, Zambia - emblazoned with 'Addressing water and sanitation challenges through city-wide partnerships' - highlights the community-led approach (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
Local funds allow informal-settlement residents to shape development
… There are 900 million informal settlements residents now – and an anticipated 2 billion by 2030, just … so we cannot afford it. So we come together to save our money as a group. That way we can have a better rate of interest. It also brings … Diana Mitlin ([email protected]) is principal researcher in the Human Settlements research group at IIED. The 'Show me the money! …
Insight, 01 November 2016
Clothes hang on lines outside small poorly maintained houses
Introduction to building transformative urban resilience for all
… and stresses. Responding to these risks is central to the work of the Human Settlements research group as it seeks to achieve sustainable, inclusive, equitable, healthy, …
Article, 01 April 2022
Raipur in Central India is developing into a major urban centre, but the infrastructure in the city's expanding informal settlements is poor (Photo: India Water Portal, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Addressing the needs of vulnerable groups in urban areas
… the risks of premature death and ill health. There is no "vulnerable group" if the risk that they are vulnerable to is removed.  In informal settlements that are vulnerable to serious flood risks every year, those … ( [email protected] ) is a senior fellow in IIED's Human Settlements research group and visiting professor at the …
Insight, 26 April 2017
Group of people standing in a circle, talking and laughing.
Brazilian philanthropies’ vision to tackle social and climate injustices
… and regenerative community funds to collaborating with and protecting human and environmental rights defenders in Indigenous communities, favelas and quilombolas (Afro-Brazilian settlements established by escaped slaves) and other local communities. …
Insight, 22 May 2025
A toilet block in Mumbai, India, where people living in different informal settlements experience distinct forms of inadequate sanitation (Photo: Renu Desai)
Sanitation in informal settlements: a networked problem
… we demonstrated that not only did people living in different informal settlements experience distinct forms of inadequate sanitation, the … , Renu and I look at the everyday life of sanitation in informal settlements and develop the idea of 'sites of entitlement' as a basis … infrastructure and services are perceived and experienced in informal settlements. By 'sites of entitlement' we don't just have in mind the …
Insight, 26 August 2015
Four men siting on a wall looking at a landscape
Mental health, wellbeing and sense of hope among vulnerable Afghans plummeted in wake of Taliban takeover
News, 28 November 2022
A house on stilts above a body of water.
Introduction to housing justice
… futures. This work builds on the longstanding experience of IIED's Human Settlements research group in promoting housing approaches that are produced in partnership …
Article, 05 October 2021