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Urban migration and social exclusion: study from Indore slums and informal settlements
… Much of India’s future urbanisation will be the result of migration from rural areas and small cities and towns. These urban migrants are often invisible, voiceless and powerless. This … presented aim to integrate the different needs of migrants into India’s urbanisation agenda in the broader pursuit of the United Nations …
Publication, 01 March 2016
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Towards more effective humanitarian response in urban areas
… Urbanization explores the growing field of humanitarian activity in urban areas of the global South. The papers showcase current and emerging thinking around urban humanitarian methods, from working in consortia (as in Eastern India) to area-based approaches. While certain methods are proving more … Urban …
Publication, 01 October 2017
Clearing up after the 2015 Nepal earthquake. Women and children, the elderly and people living in informal settlements may be especially vulnerable in an urban crisis (Photo: anjetika, Creative Commons via Flickr)
New research funded on protecting the vulnerable in urban humanitarian crises
… improve our understanding of how best to protect vulnerable people in urban crisis situations. Funding for the research projects is provided by the Urban Crises Learning Fund , a three-year project that aims to build an … between gender-based violence and occupation violence, and In India, the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) will look at …
News, 23 June 2016
Home workers making bouquets (Photo: Siddharth Agarwal/UHRC)
Addressing risks facing informal workers
Project, 01 October 2018
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Learning from urbanization in the BRICS
… South, and most famously those of the ‘BRICS’: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The BRICS provide some inspiring examples … into their cities, or steered people or enterprises to inappropriate urban locations. Several of the BRICS bear heavy burdens from past failures to accommodate urban population growth equitably and efficiently. To avoid such …
Publication, 01 December 2012
A fishing settlement in Bandar Lampung city, Indonesia
Strengthening knowledge on urban climate resilience
Project, 29 July 2014
Village councils or panchayats have not been involved in India's approach to the SDGs so far (Photo: UN Women Asia and the Pacific)
Are citizens being left behind by India's approach to the SDGs?
… One year on, what progress has been made in India to implement the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? We have … year, what it has not done, and where there is room for improvement. India's growing economy gives it the potential to show real leadership … of the Environment, Forest and Climate Change, the Ministry of Urban Development, civil society organisations (Oxfam, RIS) and …
Insight, 26 September 2016
There is often very little data available about people living in informal settlements such as these along the riverfront in Ahmedabad in India (Photo: Emmanuel Dyan, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Is urban development too complicated for us?
… are seen in informal settlements that now house around a billion urban dwellers. Within each settlement, there are differences in what … action. I remember the education I got from a group of women in Pune, India who lived in informal settlements and were savings group managers. … Another large international NGO asked my advice for developing an urban programme. Again I recommended making contact with these savings …
Insight, 17 May 2018
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From protector to evictor of slum residents – reversal of roles for the judiciary
… After partition from India, with huge numbers of migrants arriving in Karachi, the judiciary … fellow David Satterthwaite , examining different aspects of global urban change. That was then… In 1947 Karachi, with a population of 450,000, was subject to an influx of over 600,000 refugees from India. They settled in the open spaces within the city and in informal …
Insight, 24 February 2022
A family living in a cemetery in Cebu City, the Philippines. A lack of affordable housing has led some 100 families to set up home among the mausoleums (Photo: Karl Fluch, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Who can we trust to measure urban poverty?
… rates of urbanisation: the United Nations expects Africa's urban population to triple by mid-century (PDF) . Only Asia is experiencing faster rates of urban growth. By mid-century, towns and cities on these two continents … might live in a city. Measuring income poverty Cities are booming. India is projected to add 404 million urban residents by 2050; Nigeria …
Insight, 13 June 2017