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Women work in an Agarbatti (incense stick) factory (Photo: Urban Health Resource Centre)
Unsmart, unsafe cities for informal workers: effective policy change will need better data
… with informal workers: from surviving to thriving Activities are under way to examine OHS for urban informal workers in India – and the …
Insight, 05 April 2019
Cover for 9002IIED.pdf
Land Management in Ghana: Building on Tradition and Modernity
… the authors show that the mechanisms for customary management are under increasing pressure, particularly in areas of high population …
Publication, 01 January 2001
Cover for 9031IIED.pdf
El Mezquital: A community's struggle for development
… their incapacity to respond to the needs of the community, their under-estimation of community capacity, and the attempts at political …
Publication, 01 January 2001
Cover for 9072IIED.pdf
Negotiating Access to Land in West Africa: A synthesis of findings from research on derived rights to land
… In some areas such delegated rights cover more than half of the area under cultivation. These flexible and dynamic arrangements allow the …
Publication, 01 January 2001
The Nairobi Declaration will be taken to this year's UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP21) by Fatima Mohamed Hussein, on behalf of the Kenyan government, the conference hosts (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Global leaders must not neglect the world's poor and vulnerable
News, 30 April 2015
Cover for 9156IIED.pdf
Making a Killing or Making a Living: Wildlife trade, trade controls, and rural livelihoods
… of conservation-motivated trade controls such as those required under CITES. This study is intended to be a first step to address that …
Publication, 01 January 2002
Cover for 9232IIED.pdf
Engendering Eden Volume 2: Women, Gender and ICDPs in Africa - Lessons learnt and experiences shared
… and capacity building. However components still remain fragmented and under resourced. There is much room for improvement. …
Publication, 01 January 2003
An overhead view of people outside
City residents and urban refugees: from shared living to shared futures
… their communities, making sure they had the basics in lockdown. Under-resourced but with a clear understanding of local needs and …
Insight, 07 December 2020
Flooding in a Manila slum particularly affects street and slum children (Photo: Jörg Dietze/SuSanA Secretariat via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Poorest urban children failed in disasters, says report
… in the world – with a large proportion of the population under 18. Tens of millions of street children are estimated to live in …
News, 03 March 2014
Settlement in Solomon Islands.
How climate change losses could open the Solomon Islands’ old wounds
… lineage that has been passed down from generation to generation under customary ownership. This is sparking fresh tensions between …
Insight, 25 November 2020