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Closing sacks of sorted plastic for recycling at the Banvari Compound at Dharavi.Credit Meena Kadri. Creative Commons. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en_GB
Work and shelter – two struggles, one reality
… incomes, and secure housing with adequate basic services. Yet urban development programmes tend to serve these people poorly, in part … together when they faced threats of eviction or relocations in India. Yamini Parikh (from SEWA) explained how cooperatives in Ahmedabad … than the self-interest of leaders). Visibility is key : When the urban poor are invisible (whether at home or at work), they will not be …
Insight, 09 December 2013
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RRA Notes 21: Special Issue on Participatory Tools and Methods in Urban Areas
… research and project implementation in cities and towns, from both urban and rural perspectives. The issue includes: An overview … the papers address. A paper looking how RRA can be transferred to the urban context and used in training programmes for government officials. … network of informal settlements in South Africa and organisations in India. An paper on participatory research into women's health in a …
Publication, 01 November 1994
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Chronic Poverty
… an editorial that discusses what it means to be chronically poor in urban areas and the inadequacies of government responses. There are also … discussions of chronic poverty in particular locations (Cape Town, urban areas in Ethiopia, garrison communities in Jamaica); a review of … and the effectiveness of an urban services programme in Cuttack (India). …
Publication, 01 October 2005
Community leaders in the Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia planning with staff from the Namibia Housing Action Group (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
Financial inequalities; defining our age
… In Kenya , the Akiba Mashinani Trust (AMT) is working with an urban social movement, Muungano wa Wanavijiji, to address the needs of … innovations are couched within a broader community effort to upgrade urban informal settlements and markets.  In India , the National Slum Dwellers Federation and Mahila Milan (a …
Insight, 22 August 2017
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Editorial: Towards a real-world understanding of less ecologically damaging patterns of urban development
… a real-world understanding of less ecologically damaging patterns of urban development Most of the growth in the world's population ecological goals for each urban centre. Without over the next 20 years will be in and around this, … Zoning and development controls are now as large as Europe's, and India and Africa so often used to protect environmental quality both …
Publication, 01 January 1970
Women from near Rangoon, Myanmar are seated around a map with paper houses and trees talking and laughing.
What happens when slum dwellers put themselves on the map
… The papers show that the urban poor are often better able than government departments to produce … home are a vital part of the solutions to today’s challenges in urban environments,” says Satterthwaite, who is a senior fellow at the … to improve conditions there.” The journal includes papers from Ghana, India, Mexico, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, and …
News, 01 May 2012
Jockin Arputham, who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2014, gives HRH Prince Charles an insight into urban development issues and a tour of Dharavi (Photo: SPARC)
Slum dwellers nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
… Mumbai to global prominence as the beacon of people-led approaches to urban development. The bid was put forth by Swedish Minister for Public … generate "the greatest social risk": civil war." The struggle against urban inequality and associated civil strife has been waged by SDI for … such as linking with Mother Theresa for Bangladeshi refugees in India in 1972. SDI has been promoting an international alliance …
News, 13 February 2014
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Meeting the Millennium Development Goals in Urban Areas
… in Central America; The framework for slum upgrading in Mumbai, India; Housing and citizenship in Sao Paulo, Brazil; A Church’s … Urban … Meeting the Millennium Development Goals in Urban Areas …
Publication, 01 April 2005
The capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, is one of the world's largest cities. It is surrounded by rivers and lies only a few metres above sea level. The urban poor living in flood-prone areas are most threatened by climate change (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
The IPCC and an urbanising planet
Insight, 06 November 2014
Two community leaders prepare service contracts for a novel container-based sanitation service before installing toilets in users' homes in Cap Haitien, Haiti (Photo: Felipe Jacome)
Learning from the MDGs: improved sanitation and drainage in cities
… Mozambique, Ghana, China, Zambia, Tanzania, and several cities in India.  Topics include:  Different technical models (container-based … in Maputo) Differential impacts of sanitation on certain groups (urban poor adolescent girls in Bengaluru, women and girls affected by … to market-based services in East Africa, user willingness to pay in urban Haiti, public toilets in Ghana) Contextual factors for …
News, 07 October 2015