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Bangladesh: schoolchildren attend lessons at a school located on a boat (Photo: G.M.B. Akash/PANOS)
Ten lessons on community-based adaptation
… poorest) households and communities to tackle the adverse impacts of human-induced climate change. These conferences, organised jointly with …
Insight, 16 March 2016
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?
… ([email protected]) is a senior fellow in IIED's Human Settlements Group. …
Insight, 09 March 2016
Pre-emptive controlled burning in Belize is preventing severe uncontrolled wild fires during the driest months (Photo: Toledo Institute for Development and Environment)
Flaming parrots and palmetto palms
… to land rights. Back in 2014 the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) lit a slow burning fuse. They published a report …
Insight, 08 February 2016
Representatives of Indonesia communities discussed ways to improve urban conditions at the third Urban Social Forum (Photo: Fabrizio Salvatori)
Indonesian civil society discusses its urban future
… non-motorised transportation, youth and cities, advocating for human rights in cities, and protecting urban green spaces. The forum …
Insight, 21 January 2016
A new President: what does this mean for Bulgaria’s energy sector?
… this mean for this country of 7.3 million that is ranked 58th in the Human Development Index (the lowest ranking for a European country), …
Insight, 17 January 2012
A map shows new walking trails at the edge of the park that have been developed to encourage tourists to explore more of Bwindi and spend money on local products (Photo: Peter Nizette)
If you go down to the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise…
… other people live around the edge of the forest in a region of high human population density and high poverty. Research conducted between …
Insight, 27 October 2017
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 …
News, 21 October 2007
Mumbai's Dharavi settlement has a thriving informal economy. The government's redevelopment schemes have been hit by controversy and stalled for more than a decade (Photo: Jon Hurd, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The SDGs don't adequately spell out cities' role in implementation
… key part of this). The global common good is not served if the sum of human activities globally is driving us toward increasingly dangerous …
Insight, 12 October 2015
Community reblocking to improve settlement design and the quality of the neighbourhood in Namibia (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
Namibia shows how to support low cost housing
… Mitlin ([email protected]) is a principal researcher with IIED's Human Settlements Group . …
Insight, 13 June 2014
Bimbo Osobe and Samuel Akinrolabu, members of the Nigerian Slum/Informal Settlement Federation, lead a march of residents of Lagos waterfront communities threatened with eviction, to Governor Akinwunmi Ambode's office to demand open dialogue with the government on alternatives to evictions of the urban poor (Photo: Andrew Maki)
Is this too easy?
… Mitlin ([email protected]) is principal researcher in IIED's Human Settlements research group. …
Insight, 26 October 2016