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Housing with a small garden in front of the building.
Community-led housing: how to deliver housing for people and the planet
… as a commodity and the persistence and often expansion of informal settlements is restricting people's access to adequate housing. Across … of the importance of safe and secure housing as a foundation for human development. All of them are asking how to deliver it. Yet few …
Project, 09 May 2024
Closely built shacks. In the background, trees. In the foreground, a river and, on the other side of it, smoke.
Introduction to urban health equity: addressing risks, promoting gender equality and fostering wellbeing in informal settings
Article, 09 June 2022
The Cantagalo favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Many informal settlements are built on steep slopes, exposing them to landslides (Photo: Outdoor Life, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Can one billion people in informal settlements be protected from climate change?
… It is crucial the one billion people who live in informal settlements around the world are not forgotten as cities develop climate … build resilience for the billion urban dwellers who live in informal settlements. In cities in middle- and low-income countries there is … ([email protected]) is senior fellow in IIED's Human Settlements research group . This blog originally appeared on …
Insight, 06 March 2018
Clearing up after the 2015 Nepal earthquake. Women and children, the elderly and people living in informal settlements may be especially vulnerable in an urban crisis (Photo: anjetika, Creative Commons via Flickr)
New research funded on protecting the vulnerable in urban humanitarian crises
… and the elderly, recent migrants, and those living in informal settlements. Large refugee influxes to urban areas also generate a … and occupation violence, and In India, the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) will look at the implications of humanitarian … on the city of Chennai. Huge response Diane Archer, of IIED's Human Settlements research grou p, said: "We received 148 submissions, …
News, 23 June 2016
People walking down a street with mountains in the background
Foreign investment, knowledge and international arbitration: inside a research trip
… one spoke for international investment law, another for international human rights, and so on. The same happens with science. The … take into account some dimensions of international environmental and human rights law.  Eventually, this dispute between EcoOro and Colombia …
Insight, 22 June 2020
Four men siting on a wall looking at a landscape
Mental health, wellbeing and sense of hope among vulnerable Afghans plummeted in wake of Taliban takeover
… for secondary education.  Lucy Earle, acting director of research on human settlements at IIED, said: “It’s easy to think that if people who have …
News, 28 November 2022
Cover for G00528.pdf
STAND 1215 | Human Settlements at the World Urban Forum 2
… Document begins: STAND 1215 | Human Settlements at the World Urban Forum 2 In the environmental field, … STAND 1215 | Human Settlements at the World Urban Forum 2 …
Publication, 01 June 2001
A block of unfinished buildings, open to the elements
A world without refugee camps? IIED launches research on urban refugees
… 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
Man in black jacket walking among temporary tents and shelters.
How can we achieve a world without long-term refugee camps?
… crisis has become protracted. Speakers Lucy Earle  is director of the Human Settlements research group at IIED and lead for the 'protracted …
Event, 27 September 2023
Clothes hang on lines outside small poorly maintained houses
Introduction to building transformative urban resilience for all
Article, 01 April 2022