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Families living within the 'No Dwelling Zone' in Guiuan in the Philippines one year after super Typhoon Haiyan (Photo: Victoria Maynard)
Urban planning after crisis: lessons from Southeast Asia
… scale. These include approaches targeting: Areas, neighbourhoods or settlements  – which supports specific areas of the city with a high …
Insight, 10 November 2016
Group of people sitting on the floor, discussing research in Kibera
Habitat III and the New Urban Agenda – Lessons on Understanding Risk and Building Resilience
… (Habitat III) that aims to set the narrative for development in human settlements for the next 10-20 years. The New Urban Agenda, following on … in the developing world; in the expanding cities and informal settlements of Africa and Asia. A significant proportion of this urban …
Insight, 20 October 2016
An ecosan toilet in Mtandire settlement (Photo: Slum/Shack Dwellers International)
Achieving universal sanitation: Sharing the experience of the SDI affiliate in Blantyre, Malawi
Insight, 27 October 2014
Lebanon is hosting one million Syrian refugees, and around half of them are children. Most families live in makeshift shelters; some rent half-built apartments, sharing with two or three families (Photo: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development, Creative Commons via Wikipedia)
Coping with forced displacement: lessons from cities
… their actions. Diane Archer ( [email protected] ) is a senior researcher in IIED's  Human Settlements research group,  and leads IIED’s work on cities and climate …
Insight, 11 May 2017
The flag of the United Nations raised above the headquarters of the Habitat III Conference, held in Quito in Ecuador (Photo: Cancillería del Ecuador)
Sustainable cities: the nexus between resilience and resource efficiency
… Sustainable Development Goal explicitly commits to making cities and human settlements more resilient and sustainable, while the 'New Urban Agenda' … to miss. Sarah Colenbrander ( [email protected] ) is a researcher in IIED's Human Settlements research group . Sharon …
Insight, 05 May 2017
Jakarta: migrants from rural villages sleeping in an area that they rent for Rp 1.000,- (10 cents Euro) per night per person. There can be more than 50 people living and sleeping in this area at one time (Photo: Henry Ismail, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Stopping rural people going to cities only makes poverty less visible, and stripping migrants of rights makes it worse
… urban centres is also generally cheaper than in isolated rural settlements.  Given these advantages, restricting migration is not the … range of environmental hazards because most low-income and informal settlements lack basic infrastructure and are located in dangerous areas … of many low-income groups.  Cecilia Tacoli is co-head of IIED's Human Settlements Group and team leader for rural-urban research. …
Insight, 18 March 2015
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
… local or central government) would not supply water to informal settlements for fear of legitimising residents' land claims and rights. … able to go to school.   Anna Walnycki ([email protected]) is a researcher in IIED's Human Settlements Group . …
Insight, 22 March 2016
Malawi's statistics mask struggle to meet UN goal for water and sanitation in urban areas
… water and sanitation remain woefully inadequate in the informal settlements that are home to around 60 percent of Malawi’s urban … Lilongwe, Malawi, in nine of the country’s low-income informal urban settlements. Mtafu Manda also teaches at Mzuzu University in Malawi. It … be met in Africa,” says David Satterthwaite, senior fellow in IIED’s Human Settlements Programme. “ Download the report  “Water and …
News, 13 August 2009
Lake Bogoria is home to one of the world's largest populations of Flamingos. It has been a protected reserve since 1973. The lake area was the traditional home of the Endorois people, who were forced to leave the area in the 1970s (Photo: Geoffroy Mauvais/IUCN)
It's time to end conservation injustice
… in 1973. The community took its case to the African Commission on Human People's Rights, which found the Kenyan government guilty of … rulings and action on the ground in the locations where human rights abuses are occurring in the name of conservation. Could a … be established and managed in ways that breach agreed international human rights standards for indigenous peoples and local communities. One …
Insight, 17 November 2014
Ejura Market in Ghana is an important centre for farmers selling their yam crops (Photo: IITA)
Rural urban linkages
… as 'urban' (such as manufacturing and services) taking place in rural settlements. Our work seeks to: Improve our understanding of how … of low-income and vulnerable groups in both urban and rural settlements Support the capacity of local institutions and governments … citizens. This topic is explored in several working papers in our Human Settlements series and especially in two papers: The urban part of …
Project, 29 August 2014