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A group of miners who are working the Kawa Ijen volcano in Java, Indonesia. The miners carry sulfur down the volcano and to the processing centre where the sulfur is weighed and the miner is paid (Photo: Adam Cohn, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Time to tell a new story about artisanal and small-scale mining: time for a new "indaba"
… in solutions for systemic sector change. Dialogue is a mature and human approach to big challenges. In South African cultures, …
Insight, 11 February 2015
An image of an open sewer in the Kibera informal settlement, in Nairobi, Kenya, Refugees in such informal settlements face even more challenges than existing habitatants to access to services, such as language barriers (Photo: Eoghan Rice/Trócaire)
Revealing the hidden refugees in African cities
… societies. David Dodman ([email protected]) is director of IIED's Human Settlements Group …
Insight, 06 May 2016
This barrio in Guatemala has no running water or sewers. The country receives abundant rainfall, but lacks infrastructure to deliver water to households (Photo: David Amsler, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Can natural capital accounting increase water access?
… political discontent.  Water is a valuable asset Water is a basic human right, used by people for drinking and sanitation within their …
Insight, 05 April 2016
Small-scale gold miners in Madagascar. Photo: Global Environment Facility
IIED shines a light on small-scale mining
… challenges, such as child labour, health hazards, informality, human rights, pollution, and transparency in supply chains. And it will …
News, 05 March 2013
Water kiosks in Zambia provide safe drinking water for poor households in peri urban areas of Chipata. Careful consideration of the affordability of water services for the urban poor is vital to provide universal and equitable access to safe and affordable water for everyone by 2030 (Photo: SuSanA Secretariat, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Improved water access unaffordable for urban poor
…   Anna Walnycki ([email protected]) is a researcher in IIED's Human Settlements Group . …
Insight, 22 March 2016
Northern Ghana: a village chief learns forestry skills. Rural communities need investment to build up forest and farm enterprises and link them to markets and support networks (Photo: Treeaid, via Creative Commons)
It's time for revolution in forest business
… is significant: natural capital in the form of secure forest rights; human capital in the form of business skills; physical capital in terms …
Insight, 17 November 2014
Study reveals immense importance of ‘invisible’ water to urban poor
… depend on local wells,” says Dr Gordon McGranahan, head of IIED’s Human Settlements Group. “Far more needs to be done to support the …
News, 12 November 2010
With water shortages in Lebanon, many households have water storage facilities
Getting Lebanon’s water flowing: using new SDG data in an urban crisis
… Anna Walnycki ([email protected]) is a researcher in IIED's Human Settlements research group . This blog was originally posted by …
Insight, 19 February 2018
An interactive data visual that illustrates the scale and speed of urban transformation that research by IIED has sought to document and describe
IIED's best of 2014: multimedia
… as giving predictions for future growth up to 2030. Produced by our Human Settlements Group in conjunction with Kiln , this was widely … a time Hot on the heels of our interactive data visual on cities, our Human Settlements Group produced a further data visual examining the …
Insight, 12 January 2015
Freedom or a free for all? Creating an open but safe cyberspace
… of speech: “cultural differences are not an excuse to water down human rights, nor can the exploitation of digital networks by a minority …
Insight, 01 November 2011