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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?
… you might expect United Nations promises that everyone has a decent home to be met – but is this realistic for India? Ambitions must be … government commitments made at Habitat I (the first UN Conference on Human Settlements) in Vancouver in 1976; then at Habitat II in Istanbul in …
Insight, 05 October 2015
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
Insight, 14 February 2017
An image of crouching community members in a village in Champasak province, Laos identify areas where open defecation is taking place ahead of implementing sanitation measures (Photo: Viengsompasong Inthavong/World Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
An urban approach to 'leaving no one behind'
… and their needs, and The politics of implementation – how decisions about priorities for investment in urban services and infrastructure are … and opportunities for all" and "ecological and resilient cities and human settlements": the current debate appears to position leaving no one …
Insight, 02 June 2016
Informal settlements such as this one in Durban, South Africa, are adversely affected by climate-related impacts (Photo: David Dodman)
Climate-related 'loss and damage' in cities: exploring a new urban frontier
Insight, 23 October 2014
A family living in a cemetery in Cebu City, the Philippines. A lack of affordable housing has led some 100 families to set up home among the mausoleums (Photo: Karl Fluch, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Who can we trust to measure urban poverty?
… Most can answer easily: not being able to afford enough food, a safe home, clean drinking water, health care and other basic needs. The … poor are collecting extraordinarily detailed data on life in informal settlements. These community-led enumerations record how many people … Colenbrander ([email protected]) is a researcher in IIED's Human Settlements research group . This blog originally appeared on the …
Insight, 13 June 2017
Head and shoulders images
Remembering Nigel Cross and Brian Walker, leading lights of IIED
… second wife Josephine Namusisi. His latter years were spent at her home in Uganda, with occasional stretches of time among his books in … ‘Our Common Future’ and developed world class research programmes on human settlements, energy, forestry and environmental economics.    A former …
Insight, 16 October 2019
A block of unfinished buildings, open to the elements
A world without refugee camps? IIED launches research on urban refugees
… their difficult situation in an orderly way, until they can return home. Their use is also a way of fundraising for the much-needed … impact the lives of refugees and IDPs differently; little is known about how the urban displaced interact with local people, institutions … communities – are able to meet their basic needs and exercise their human rights in a sustainable way, without reliance on humanitarian …
Insight, 06 April 2020
Informal settlements lining the railway tracks in Mumbai (Photo: gloogun, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Ward diaries: crucial evidence for planning in Mumbai's slums
… helps change the negative attitudes of city governments towards these settlements and their inhabitants. Mobilising local action But getting … have good access to shared taps and most have toilets in their home; their top priorities are health services and education facilities … was drawn from conversations with David Satterthwaite from IIED's Human Settlements research group in September 2016. …
Insight, 28 November 2016
Covers of top publications of 2020.
IIED's best of 2020: publications
… be integrated into national monitoring and evaluation systems. More about this work: This guide published by IIED, EVALSDGs, the Ministry … Issue paper  Tackling biodiversity loss is a growing priority for human survival. Introducing incentives for positive actions could play a … urgent policy change Research report The Asia and Pacific region is home to more than half the world’s undernourished children, but also has …
Article, 23 December 2020
City without limits: keeping pace with the urban poor
… often wake up thinking this is the day you might be evicted from the home and the neighbourhood you have painstakingly built. This is reality … living in the world’s slums, shantytowns and other informal urban settlements. But what is less publicized about the ‘bottom billion’, as … How have you collaborated with IIED? I was a resident fellow with the Human Settlements group at IIED in 2004 for six months. This helped me …
Article, 18 November 2008