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Exploring the nexus between humanitarian and development goals in Aleppo
… war in Syria has created one of the world’s greatest humanitarian crises. This paper aims to present possible entry points for links … humanitarian and development efforts in Aleppo, especially in the urban context. It explores the grey areas of early-recovery and … Urban …
Publication, 01 December 2017
A close-up of the virus that causes COVID-19
Coronavirus threat looms large for low-income cities
… to pandemics (spreading cross-continent, or globally). Densely packed urban environments where humans live alongside bats, rodents, birds, … trade, not wet trade Wet markets can provide valuable nutrition to urban communities. Recognising their role in urban food security, China … work and the coronovirus Coronavirus and climate change are two crises that need humanity to unite , blog by Andrew Norton Dealing with …
Insight, 26 February 2020
A map showing the neighbourhoods around Port-au-Prince, Haiti
IIED publishes archive on post-quake planning in Haiti
… to the disaster. The Haiti Community Planning Archive will provide urban planners, students and those working in disaster response with … actors who are increasingly finding themselves responding to complex urban disasters.” An extraordinary collective effort The 2010 earthquake … from the public domain.  As a contribution to the DFID-funded Urban Crises programme , IIED has supported researchers to retrieve and …
News, 09 January 2020
Lebanon is hosting one million Syrian refugees, and around half of them are children. Most families live in makeshift shelters; some rent half-built apartments, sharing with two or three families (Photo: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development, Creative Commons via Wikipedia)
Coping with forced displacement: lessons from cities
… Conversations around urban resilience often focus on making cities better able to withstand … people fleeing conflict, disaster or other threats.  An increasingly urban challenge There are 65.3 million forcibly displaced people around … and distributing water .  On the other hand, when displacement crises are successfully managed, the influx can bring economic, social …
Insight, 11 May 2017
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 … of the pandemic, infection statistics led some people to demonise urban density, a more nuanced analysis suggests that it is inequality, … housing insecurity and COVID-19. The combined shelter and health crises have drawn attention to the need to listen and support urban poor …
Article, 22 October 2020
Indigeonous communities join government officials, NGOs and academics to participate in a ridge-to-reef mapping workshop in Cagayan de Oro City to identify threats to the forest and environment ecosystem (Photo: Horacio Marcos C. Mordeno, MindaNews, Creative Commons via Flickr)
International Disaster and Risk Conference 2016: key resources
… risk management – towards resilient cities', with a focus on urban areas and promoting resilience in cities. IIED's disaster and risk … with climate change impacts, risks, and adaptation, particularly in urban areas. And while IIED's researchers didn't attend the conference, … and learning is possible - Diane Archer IIED led the three-year Urban Crises Learning Fund , and the programme of research, documentation of …
Article, 28 August 2016
About 1.5 million Syrians are currently in Lebanon. The influx has added complexity to an already fragile system of water provision (Photo: Loan Diep)
Water in MENA: ripple effects in times of conflict
… worsened the picture, causing violent damage and further complex crises. Aleppo, Mosul and Sana'a are some of the region's emblematic … programme  by IIED, UNICEF MENA  and Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP)  has investigated how those involved in water … conflicts in MENA was a joint initiative between IIED, through the Urban Crises Learning Fund , WSUP and UNICEF . Results of the study can …
Insight, 12 December 2017
a goup of community workers
New series: Beyond COVID-19: grassroots visions of change
… and gender.  The first analysis looks at community responses in urban areas . As well as discussions synthesising lessons to learned, … for example, toolkits for response and recovery (building on IIED’s Urban Crises work ), multimedia outputs, research findings, and relevant news … Urban …
News, 26 June 2020
Hundreds of densely packed houses climb into the mountains
Dealing with COVID-19 in the towns and cities of the global South
… poses particular risks for the one billion people living in informal urban settlements in the global South. A range of factors make … the dwelling or even the plot. In sub-Saharan Africa, access in urban areas to piped water on the premises declined between 1990 and … work and the coronovirus Coronavirus and climate change are two crises that need humanity to unite , blog by Andrew Norton Coronavirus …
Insight, 27 March 2020
A man walking in a flooded street
Transitioning to a better global ‘new normal’
… wreaking havoc on the communities where we and our partners work. The urban poor in towns and cities across the world are hit particularly … that we need to abandon the old, normal way of dealing with global crises. In the immediate term, we need to adopt a new (and better) … And across other parts of India, federations of slum dwellers and urban poor groups, including the National Slum Dwellers Federation and …
Insight, 22 April 2020