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Around a billion urban dwellers live in informal settlements such as these. Without far more effective policies, their population could rise to 2 billion by 2030 (Photo: Mark Edwards)
Ten essentials for the New Urban Agenda in one page
… citizen-based monitoring and community-driven upgrading in informal settlements. Importantly, these encourage voice and engagement by groups … and mapping to generate data needed for upgrading informal settlements   Urban centres need infrastructure and services that reach …  ( [email protected] ) is a senior fellow in IIED's Human Settlements research group ;  Cassidy Johnson ( …
Insight, 19 July 2016
City without limits: keeping pace with the urban poor
Article, 18 November 2008
Top: Sohel Ahmed and colleague prepare to release the balloon; bottom: Some of the photographs taken from the air (Photos: Sohel Ahmed)
Up in the air: Citizen scientists map food dangers in Nairobi
… "We were intimidated," says Sohel Ahmed, a researcher at University College London who has just returned from work … rely on government department to take initiative and improve informal settlements," says Anthony Waweru, one of the community mappers. "I … structures on their toes." Cecilia Tacoli is co-head of the human settlements group at the International Institute for Environment …
Insight, 31 March 2014
Demonstrating the use of alternative building materials at the Jinja Building Materials Training Centre, Uganda. (Photo: David Dodman)
Reducing risks to urban health and building climate resilience
… Why are the health prospects for residents in informal urban settlements so poor, and what future issues will contribute to making … days. But perhaps the more significant effects of climate change on human health will be on the ways that gradual changes in the physical … individuals and communities in the future. David Dodman is a senior researcher in IIED's human settlements group ( [email protected] ). …
Insight, 17 March 2014
IIED founder Barbara Ward, who would have been 100 on 23 May, set out the case for a fairer, more just world system
A vision of our world that is sustainable, fairer and realisable: memories of Barbara Ward
… 10 years. This book also documented the growth of informal cities and settlements and how they can be dramatically improved by working with … what should be done to maintain the earth as a place suitable for human life not only now, but also for future generations. The birth of … of curiosity, surely one of the defining characteristics of a good researcher but unusual in someone so eminent. Presidents, popes and …
Insight, 27 May 2014
Asian Coalition for Community Action
Critical theme: Introducing the Asian Coalition for Community Action
… for two years and has a long history of working closely with the  Human Settlements Group . Previous Critical Themes at IIED  have discussed …
Event, 02 July 2014
Construction of Hyderabad’s new metro. The first phase, covering 30km and 24 stations, opened in November 2017 (Photo: banjaxx, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Financing sustainable infrastructure: a tale of two cities
… bill to pay in a city where one in four people lives in informal settlements without clean drinking water, reliable toilets or decent … .  Sarah Colenbrander ( [email protected] ) is a senior researcher with IIED's Human Settlements research group and senior economist with the Coalition …
Insight, 09 January 2018
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 risk that they are vulnerable to is removed.  In informal settlements that are vulnerable to serious flood risks every year, those … electricity, healthcare and waste collection).  Upgrading informal settlements should reduce or remove many life- and health-threatening … ( [email protected] ) is a senior fellow in IIED's Human Settlements research group and visiting professor at the …
Insight, 26 April 2017
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Celebrating 25 years
… years of IIED, from its origins around the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm and the formative influence of Barbara … working at the intersection of environment, development and human needs. It highlights IIED’s work across sustainable agriculture, forests and land use, human settlements, drylands, climate change, environmental economics and …
Publication, 01 July 1997
Debra Roberts will become the latest 'outstanding woman in development' to deliver the Barbara Ward Lecture
Champion of urban climate action to deliver IIED's 2016 Barbara Ward Lecture
… and urban studies journals. She has worked as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Natal, South Africa and has written … has been engaging with urban issues since the 1970s. Our  Human Settlements research group  works on urban environmental issues at all …
News, 19 July 2016