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Temporary settlements in Kirtipur, Nepal, which was devastated by earthquakes in 2015 (Photo: Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed)
Cash transfers in urban crises: do they work for women?
… out in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015), the Sustainable Development Goals (2015), and a host of UN Security Council … increase their influence in the wider community? Why focus on cash in urban contexts? Cash-based urban economies have a very distinctive … support households when crises hit, providing basic services such as water, sanitation and healthcare.  What's still unclear, and what our …
Insight, 08 March 2017
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Participatory democracy and sustainable development: integrated urban environmental management in Porto Alegre, Brazil
… of any Brazilian metropolitan centre. Virtually all its people have water piped to their homes and most have good-quality sanitation and … and environmental education. The paper ends by discussing how sustainable development is impossible without good urban environmental management and how this, in turn, has to be built on …
Publication, 01 October 2002
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Ecological Urbanization II
… of how to achieve less ecologically damaging patterns of urban development, despite the many powerful vested interests that … this. It includes: two papers on transport issues; four papers on water and sanitation; the collaborative river basin management by 10 … promote better natural resource management; Making more ecologically sustainable mixed residential developments in Cape Town; Combining …
Publication, 01 October 2006
Diagram showing the traditional channels for delivering aid (Image: IIED)
Money where it matters: local finance to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement
Article, 25 January 2017
Geographic patterns are seen out the window of an airplane traveling between Mwanza and Dar Es Salam, Tanzania on March 20, 2015 (Photo: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)
Connecting cities to basins
… of the city's inhabitants live in informal settlements. Delivering sustainable development in this environment is a significant challenge. … Development Goals aim to promote the "availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all" by 2030. … Urban … Water … Urban poverty …
Long read, 06 February 2017
A busy side street in the settlement of Dharavi
Invisiblising cities: the obsession with national statistics and international comparisons
… landmark 2007 working paper, ' The Transition to a Predominantly Urban World and its Underpinnings '. The updated edition will be … them to see, for instance, the quality of housing or of provision for water and sanitation in each street or ward/district. Censuses are … applies for water and sanitation data used to monitor progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Monitoring progress on the SDGs …
Insight, 25 February 2020
Women using the Changu Changu Moto Fuel-Efficient Clean Cookstove, Malawi, Africa (Photo: Ripple Africa)
Technologies for sustainable development: mind the gender gap
Insight, 30 April 2018
A community sanitation facility in Jinja, Uganda (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
World Toilet Day: People need equality and dignity when they 'have to go'
… Inequality of toilet access The quality of toilets in low-income urban areas varies, as does the type of organisation providing them. In … 7c, to "halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation". Even if the target were claimed to be met, …
Insight, 18 November 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
Insight, 17 March 2014
Hundreds of homes are crammed together up the side of a hill
Q&A: Achieving housing rights for all: issues and recommendations
… Support Group for Shelter ; and Higor Rafael de Souza Carvalho, an urban planner and PhD candidate at the University of São Paulo , debated … basic services and healthcare as well. For instance, insufficient water supply and sanitation makes it challenging to observe recommended … by governments. Q: To what extent are housing rights and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) changing government approaches? The …
Article, 22 October 2020