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A community planning workshop in Cambodia (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
Improving housing in Asia – and turning traditional top-down funding on its head
… in 2011 to support community-driven improvements to informal settlements in ways that are relevant at the city scale. It enables the … it has been. Diana Mitlin ( [email protected] ) is principal researcher in IIED's Human Settlements Group . More resources: Full details of the ACCA …
Insight, 11 March 2015
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 shared … Russia, India, China and South Africa – that featured IIED principal researcher Gordon McGranahan explaining what users could see as he …
Insight, 12 January 2015
A partially obstructed drain in Gangtok city, Sikkim (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
Fieldnotes from two cities in India: learning about social learning and climate uncertainty
… future. Susannah Fisher  ( [email protected] ) is a senior researcher in IIED's  Climate Change research group ;  David Dodman  ( [email protected] ) is director of IIED's  Human Settlements research group .  This visit was part of a broader IIED …
Insight, 21 July 2016
An image of the outside of a Malawi bank, showing a ramp installed for wheelchair users. Generally the country is lagging behind in terms of provisions for people with disabilities (Photo: Steve Sharra)
People with disabilities struggle in Malawi's cities
… Goal 11 is specifically to do with cities and calls for cities and human settlements to be made inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. … that they suffer "indignities" associated with poor urban settlements. The study recommended better management of urban growth for …
Insight, 06 June 2016
How can decentralised finance drive sustainable development? A new interactive story produced by IIED's Human Settlements Group highlights successful examples from the global South (Image: Kiln/IIED)
It's the thought that counts: how can Addis deliver for the world’s poorest?
… merely recipients of aid. Anna Walnycki ([email protected]) is a researcher in IIED's Human Settlements Group . …
Insight, 08 July 2015
A new map produced by IIED shows seven types of innovative governance. Click on the image to see the map (Image: IIED)
Driving change by supporting action at the local level
… written with contributions from David Dodman , acting head of IIED's Human Settlements Group , and Mike Day , visiting researcher at IIED.  …
Insight, 24 November 2015
Urban climate action champion Debra Roberts gave the 2016 Barbara Ward Lecture (Image: IIED)
2016 Barbara Ward Lecture: Debra Roberts says global urbanisation strategy needs greater focus on practical implementation
… and IIED has been engaging with urban issues since the 1970s. Our Human Settlements research group works on urban environmental issues at all …
Article, 11 October 2016
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 no … Worldwide, a billion people live in low-quality tenements or squatter settlements with inadequate water and sanitation. Economic growth is the …
News, 21 October 2007
World Urban Forum 2008
… and one third, almost 1 billion, are desperately poor and live in settlements without access to adequate water and sanitation. This event …
Event, 30 October 2008
A street in Freetown, Sierra Leone: involving growing low-income urban populations in urbanising countries will help result in more inclusive urbanisation (Photo: bobthemagicdragon, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
In the world's poorest countries, cities could be the Sustainable Development Goals test
… economic goals.   Constructive engagement with informality: Informal settlements and informal economies have their problems, but formalising … many cities and towns a majority of the population lives in informal settlements, and the majority of workers are in the informal economy . … be critical, but should not be viewed as a goal in itself. Improving human wellbeing, now and into the future, needs to become a more central …
Insight, 07 June 2016