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Jockin Arputham, once an itinerant carpenter who slept outside, gives HRH Prince Charles an insight into urban development issues and a tour of Dharavi (Photo: SPARC)
From slum-dwelling carpenter to US$1.25 million prize winner
… It's Jockin Arputham, a grassroots leader from India who founded the first National Slum Dwellers Federation, who … loans. There is another US$2 million of community savings in national urban poor funds that support their initiatives. In over 100 urban centres, the federations have set up local funds that are …
Insight, 08 April 2014
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Mapping, enumerating and surveying informal settlements and cities
… settlements and cities. It includes case studies from Ghana, Kenya, India, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda of how the residents … planning and a paper reviewing the environmental effects of informal urban expansion in Xalapa. On climate change adaptation, there are … 10 years after the earthquake in Gujarat, the fragmentation of urban landscapes worldwide, socioeconomic characteristics of informal …
Publication, 01 March 2012
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Community-driven sanitation improvement in deprived neighbourhoods
… There is international consensus that urban sanitary conditions are in great need of improvement, but sharp … which then goes on to examine two community-driven approaches to urban sanitation improvement that have been expanding for more than two decades, one in Pakistan and the other in India. It is argued that a large part of their success lies in the …
Publication, 01 June 2013
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An Activist Approach to Biodiversity Planning: A handbook of participatory tools used to prepare India’s National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan
… remain invisible, is a universal challenge to policy processes today. India has been one of the first countries to undertake a National … settings - ranging from well resourced to poorly supported, from urban to inaccessibly rural, and from reluctant to enthusiastic. … Planning: A handbook of participatory tools used to prepare India’s National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan …
Publication, 01 January 2005
Community participation, with a strong focus on women, such as this women's savings group in Southern India, is vital to develop slum-friendly cities (Photo: Maria Andersson/Individuell Människohjälp, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
What might slum dwellers want from the SDGs?
… that everyone has a decent home to be met – but is this realistic for India? Ambitions must be achievable My ambition for the SDGs is limited … this bring more unrealistic commitments? Or will it truly be a "new urban agenda" with a clear strategy for achieving the goals with new … this is just a grand talk show.   Looking back – what was the world's urban population at the time of Habitat 1? Just 1.6 billion people. At …
Insight, 05 October 2015
Lagos in 2010. Under different scenarios, Lagos could have 61 million inhabitants in 2100, or over 100 million (Image: Ricardo Gomes, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Will Africa have the world's largest cities in 2100?
… The world's urban population is growing rapidly – and current projections suggest it … 3 billion by 2100. But where will this vast growth in the world's urban population live? A new paper by Daniel Hoornweg and Kevin Pope … falling population growth. Or that the long-established dominance of India's four largest cities (Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai) would …
Insight, 07 October 2016
Washing in Kolkata. Urban poor groups must engage with city government and utility companies in order to become drivers for change (Photo: Wolfgang Sterneck, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Can global funds be accountable at the local level?
… of SPARC, Mahila Milan and the National Slum Dwellers Federation in India. This alliance seeks to support the urban poor to define their priorities and execute plans based on their … of the poor. Part of this is helping to create organisations of the urban poor, investing in their development and asset creation culture. …
Insight, 09 August 2016
An expanse of water next to a bank of soil
Policymakers take note: climate displacement is driving millions into slavery
Insight, 05 July 2021
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Sustainable Cities Revisited III
… in Leicester (UK)~- The politics of sustainable cities in Mangalore (India)~- Changes in urban wateruse in East Africa over three decades~- Community toilets in Pune (India)~- Privatizing water and sanitation for the urban poor ~- Partnerships in Nakuru’s Local Agenda 21 (Kenya)~- Cities, … Urban …
Publication, 01 January 2000
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 … populations tend to have less access to improved sanitation than urban ones, but that's not always the case (as shown in the image). And … in the open. Most of them live in middle-income countries, notably India. Every day, diseases transmitted through faeces kill around 6,000 …
Insight, 18 November 2014