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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
Article, 28 August 2016
Cover for 10785IIED.pdf
Scaling up of climate resilient housing in Gorakhpur
… as their capacities to recover. More often than not, housing for the urban poor is not only an asset, but also a place for income generation. … with key stakeholder groups in Gorakhpur city in eastern India, this paper examines the housing vulnerability challenges faced by the urban poor. The paper analyses the existing constraints within the …
Publication, 01 May 2016
The lives of Vasanthi and Gopal have been transformed by the low-cost toilet provided as part of the Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project (Photo: Asian Development Bank, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Why sanitation, spearhead of urban improvement in the 19th century, has become the laggard of the 21st
… reform put protecting people from other people's shit at the heart of urban governance. Cholera epidemics hit unsanitary cities hardest, and … (MDG) targets that is seriously off course. The share of the world's urban population without 'improved' sanitation facilities only fell … Mahila Milan, SPARC and the National Slum Dwellers Federation of India (the Alliance) (PDF)  grew out of local organising, through …
Insight, 04 March 2015
Prema Gopalan stands centre stage in an orange sari. Two men present her with a certificate; two others stand behind and applaud.
Prema Gopalan remembered
News, 23 May 2022
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Trends and Processes of Urbanisation in India- DRAFT (not for citation)
… Urban … Trends and Processes of Urbanisation in India- DRAFT (not for citation) …
Publication, 01 September 2009
Street scene of small shops and a rickshaw in a city in South India.
BRICS urbanisation provides lessons for economic growth and social equity
… still poorly served despite sustained economic growth. Today, rising urban land prices prevent action to improve infrastructure and services. … governance systems or land use patterns that it can reshape. India has not yet come to terms with its urbanisation, and there are … a place in India’s cities. But India is at the earliest stage of its urban transition, and will hopefully learn from the experiences of the …
News, 05 December 2012
Cover for 10817IIED.pdf
Resilience planning in Asian cities: lessons from the ICLEI–ACCCRN process
… in the world are located in Asia, where two-thirds of the world’s urban population reside (McGranahan et al., 2007). A number of Asian … to improve their capacity to plan, finance and take action to promote urban resilience, using city resilience strategies (CRS). Based on a sample of 15 city resilience strategies from India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and the Philippines, this briefing presents …
Publication, 01 April 2017
Cover for 10816IIED.pdf
Developing city resilience strategies: lessons from ICLEI and ACCCRN
Publication, 01 April 2017
A man walking in a flooded street
Transitioning to a better global ‘new normal’
Insight, 22 April 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 … way that local government thinks about informal neighbourhoods. In India, SDI’s Indian Alliance transformed urban programming in some …
Insight, 27 March 2020