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IIED's best of 2019: blogs
… sanitation facilities.  ...these concrete jungles present a critical urban governance challenge. 6 Mali’s new mining law: an improvement, but … means making them more walkable June:  Most people living in India's cities get around by walking, cycling or using public transport, but as India's cities expand and car use rises, the urban environment becomes more challenging.  Archita Suryanarayanan and  …
Article, 27 December 2019
There is no government-provided water connection in the Shivaji Nagar slum area of Raipur. Under UN definitions, a household has "improved provision" for water even if it only has access to a public tap or standpipe. (Photo: indiawaterportal.org, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Setting the bar too low: is there really progress on UN development goals?
… access to improved sources of drinking water. The proportion of urban slum dwellers declined significantly." But much of the supporting … statistics or heroic guesses where there is no data. I focus on urban areas since this is where I work. It may be that many of the … evidence for this?  Or for the massive drop in the proportion of India’s urban population living in 'slums' – which the report claims …
Insight, 03 December 2013
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Shack/Slum Dwellers International: One experience of the contribution of membership organizations to pro-poor urban development
… of the contribution of membership organizations to pro-poor urban development Celine d'Cruz1 (SPARC and SDI) and Diana Mitlin2 (IIED … Dwellers International (SDI),3 an international network of national urban poor Federations and their support NGOs. Each federation is made … network has grown to be active in ten countries (Asia: Cambodia, India, Nepal, the Philippines, Sri Lanka; Africa: Kenya, Namibia, South …
Publication, 01 January 1970
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RRA Notes 21: Participatory Tools and Methods in Urban Areas
… issue discusses the ‘problem’ of applying participatory approaches in urban communities. The second section describes the complex characteristics of urban settings and how they differ from the type of rural contexts in … PALM in slum improvement projects: a training experience from India Sheelu Francis Showing what you mean (not just talking about It) …
Article, 01 November 1994
In 1992 the United Nations called Mexico City "the most polluted city on the planet". City authorities took radical steps to cut pollution, but Mexico City still has smog and is increasingly vulnerable to climate change (Photo: Fidel Gonzalez, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)
Should cities invest in climate mitigation?
Insight, 21 September 2015
A man carries buckets filled with water from a water tanker in Retiro, a shanty town in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Basic service provision shouldn’t just be a money maker
… piped to their homes. However, in many nations, attitudes to informal urban settlements have begun to change. Water utilities and municipal … in his recent book Rebel Cities: from the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution . However as people are drawn into paying for services, … by residents who once lived in Sanjay Ghandi National Park in Mumbai, India for basic services were recently quantified; they are paying more …
Insight, 08 October 2012
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 6 PALM in slum improvement projects: a training experience from India
… 6 PALM in slum improvement projects: a training experience from India Sheelu Francis Background · Failing to involve slum residents in … planning and design; Slum Improvement Projects (SIPs) are integrated urban development projects which · The existence of a government culture … 6 PALM in slum improvement projects: a training experience from India …
Publication, 01 January 1994
Street in Karachi, Pakistan with overflowing sewage.
The real issue is universal access to affordable basic services
… million people living in slums – only around 10% of those living in urban areas in need of assistance – by 2020 would mean that this MDG … the deficiencies in provision for water and sanitation in rural and urban areas is astonishing. In most sub-Saharan African nations and many … these only serve 5-20% of their population. For example, in Mumbai, India’s financial capital, approximately 60% of the 20 million …
Insight, 14 August 2012
Women are gathered around a paper with squares on it talking.
Why enumeration counts: documenting by the undocumented
… participatory work is described in case studies from Ghana, Kenya, India, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda and Zimbabwe in … of women’s savings groups from the city of Cuttack, Orissa state, India has surveyed and mapped all 331 of the cities’ informal … groundwork is being laid for further community-led documentation of urban informal settlements in the future. This was written by guest …
Insight, 10 May 2012
In Mexico City, the Metrobus BRT system carries roughly 250,000 people daily. It cuts workers' travel times and also helps to reduce carbon emissions (Photo: City Clock Magazine, Creative Commons via Flickr)
How Bus Rapid Transit can make housing affordable to low-income households
… public transport in cities usually pushes up house prices. But one of India’s best known civil engineers, Shirish Patel, along with two … live. Getting the land The first task is identifying potential peri-urban, mostly greenfield, sites that can be connected to the city’s existing urban transit. For Mumbai, this means identifying railway stations on …
Insight, 06 June 2018