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The journey to fetch fresh water for a resident of the Dharavi slum in Mumbai, India (Photo: Meena Kadri, Creative Commons via Flickr)
World Water Week 2016: key resources
… Development Goals (SDGs). IIED's water work focuses on sanitation in urban areas and, as part of the Global Water Initiative – West Africa , … asking ' Why is water still unaffordable for sub-Saharan Africa's urban poor? ' that also discusses the SDGs' target (6.1) to provide … of IIED, is building the capacity of stakeholders in cities in India, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh and the Philippines to …
Article, 24 August 2016
Two people pour liquid on a plate of potatoes.
Indigenous food systems prove highly resilient during COVID-19
… crops – such as potato in Peru, cowpea in Kenya or aromatic rice in India – thT form the basis of biocultural food systems that have … more and more industrialised. Reviving traditional practices As urban populations around the world suffered the parallel disasters of … of a few while individuals (and even states) scrape by, failed these urban migrants the world over. The pandemic exposed their …
Insight, 26 August 2021
Our new interactive visualisation plots countries’ incomes per capita against their levels of urbanisation
Let's see what the BRICS teach us about urbanisation and economic growth
… often been socially destructive. What can the BRICS ( Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa),  the economic darlings of the early … done to enhance this contribution and put it to good use. Examples of urban growth in the visualisation Cities as engines of economic growth … back in the late 1990s. Of course, Russia was starting out far more urban, unable to use urbanisation as a tool of economic transformation, …
Insight, 16 September 2014
Prolonged flooding in Vietnam in 2011 left thousands homeless and exposed to health risks. The research projects will focus on building resilience to climate change (Photo: EU/ECHO)
Ten projects receive funding for research into climate change resilience
… open to individuals and research institutions based in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. IIED was … on either health and climate change in cities, or sanitation and urban services in the context of climate change. A total of US$200,000 … for water and sanitation sector to contribute to positive impact on urban climate resilience in Bangladesh – Habitat for Humanity, …
News, 03 October 2014
Jockin Arputham, right, signs documents with Stellenbosch Mayor Sidego in South Africa
IIED remembers Jockin Arputham
… which he lived. He founded the National Slum Dwellers Federation in India to further this – and had to endure constant harassment (including … Who perhaps more than anyone else has shaped and informed our work in urban areas . Who also gave us so generously his time. Working with IIED … Urban …
News, 15 October 2018
Nairobi in Kenya is one of many fast-growing cities across Africa (Photo: Stuart Price/Make it Kenya, Creative Commons via Flickr)
African cities can raise more money. Kenya and South Africa offer useful lessons
… It’s cheaper to provide all kinds of services to people living in urban areas, from paved roads to health care. Urban growth can turbocharge economic development, since people working … to around 400,000 Kenyans. Pooled funds have been used in Colombia, India, Mexico and the Philippines, but have rarely achieved scale in …
Insight, 31 October 2018
Three women sit on the floor for a meeting
Responding to COVID-19 in a high-density low-income district in Mumbai
… families. The bottom of the tenements at Indian Oil Nagar, Mumbai, India (Photo: copyright SPARC ) Shutting the local market was a … Urban … The transition to a predominantly urban world …
Insight, 13 May 2020
Dharavi slum, Mumbai, India (Photo: Akshay Mahajan, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Data that supports local development
… by national statistics. Some national statistics are available for urban and rural areas but rarely for individual cities, let alone for … can be used to try to motivate action – for instance the 880 million urban dwellers recorded as without water piped to their premises in 2015 … settlements often struggle to get the documentation to get these). In India, the National Slum Dwellers Federation and Mahila Milan (the …
Insight, 22 September 2016
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Delivering change: IIED annual review 2019
… in Kenya; to documenting health and climate risks for informal urban workers in India and Zimbabwe; to working to grow networks to support green, social …
Publication, 01 February 2020
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Small and Intermediate Urban Centers, Their Role in Regional and National Development Within the Third World
… Most of the Third World's urban population either lives in or depends on small and intermediate sized urban centres for access to goods, services and markets. Yet most urban … in regions in Argentina, the Sudan, Nigeria and North and South India. There are also chapters reviewing the literature on this subject …
Publication, 01 January 1986