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Cover for G01230.pdf
Understanding market-based livelihoods in a globalising world: combining approaches and methods
… and cashew nut production and trade: examples from Mozambique and India 4.2.2 Combining cluster and commodity chain approaches to … a value chain, and the opportunities for policy: an example from peri-urban horticulture in Mali 5. Conclusions. …
Publication, 01 November 2005
It is estimated that Mumbai has the largest slum population of any city in the world, with more than half of its 12 million people living in informal settlements (Photo: Jon Baldock, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Why we do 'slum' profiles
… of the land their homes occupy. Two federations of 'slum' dwellers in India have developed a new strategy for getting more secure tenure and … 50 years. He founded the first national slum dweller federation in India in 1976 and spent over 20 years supporting slum and shack dwellers … Urban …
Insight, 22 February 2016
Informal settlements lining the railway tracks in Mumbai (Photo: gloogun, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Ward diaries: crucial evidence for planning in Mumbai's slums
… Arputham founded the first national slum dweller federation (in India) and he has spent the last 20 years supporting slum and shack dwellers federations to form and grow in India and in over 30 other countries. He is president of Slum/Shack … Urban …
Insight, 28 November 2016
A seated man gives a speech to a camera directly in front of him, next to the Bhutan national flag
CBA14 opens with LDC chair call for greater ambition on climate change
News, 21 September 2020
Group of seated women looking in the same direction
‘Building back better’ means ‘building back fairer’ after COVID-19
… agency at the centre of the action. Swayam Shikshan Prayog , based in India, works to empower rural grassroots women’s networks and … by the maxim “Nothing about us, without us” (central to WIEGO’s New Urban Agenda ) involves securing inclusive, participatory …
Insight, 31 July 2020
Diagram showing the traditional channels for delivering aid (Image: IIED)
Money where it matters: local finance to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement
Article, 25 January 2017
Old woman in profile in front of thatched hut and mud house. Niger.
Making gender and generation matter
Project, 26 April 2011
Cover for 9532IIED.pdf
PLA 51: Civil society and poverty reduction
… in Vietnam. A report on working with municipalities to develop urban health systems in Bangladesh. A paper on using actor-oriented … up the use of PLA in a pilot health and nutrition programme in India. A paper on a people's initiative to solve water-logging in river …
Publication, 01 April 2005
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PLA 66 - Tools for supporting sustainable natural resource management and livelihoods
… famine was averted in Southern Africa. How community-led action in India is improving animal health and work practices. How digital mapping … The issue also includes a selection of other articles, including how urban community groups in Chile have opposed two urban redevelopment projects; the use of participatory impact assessment …
Article, 31 August 2013
Cover for G01544.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 7 Showing what you mean (not just talking about it)
… on trial in parts of north-east, where I have been working: Africa, India, South-East Asia and Latin America. The tools and techniques have … "I was born and bred on this estate. As a used in rural as well as urban areas, but I shall young child in the sixties, there was a great … in cities and on came out into the streets and played with urban fringe estates. In particular, those pla ces the children, and …
Publication, 01 January 1994