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… Jockin Arputham founded the National Slum Dwellers Federation in India and is president of Slum/Shack Dwellers International (SDI). This … and improving the economic status of members. Deep democracy: urban governmentality and the horizon of politics: Arjun Appadurai … and support the formation of other savings groups. Building an urban poor people's movement in Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Asian Coalition …
Project, 18 August 2014
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Methodologies for urban climate resilience: A review of ACCCRN approaches to Indian cities
… India is a country of over 7,000 towns and cities, each of which faces differing climate-related risks and vulnerabilities. However, urban local bodies lack the legal mandate and financial revenues to … Urban … Methodologies for urban climate resilience: A review of ACCCRN approaches to Indian cities …
Publication, 01 February 2014
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The benefits and constraints of urbanization for gender equality
… Among the key issues explored in this Brief are: ~• where and when urban women enjoy advantages over their rural counterparts;~• community … transport planning fails to respond to women’s travel needs;~• how urban contexts can both reduce and increase gender-based violence;~• how … a project working with girls and boys with disabilities in Mumbai, India; and ~• the particular roles of women in seeking to get better …
Publication, 01 May 2013
Ongoing monitoring of communal toilets has helped to improve design: here, smaller toilets for children are included in adult toilet blocks. Previously children's facilities were in separate buildings and were frequently left uncleaned (Photo: SPARC)
How India's slum and pavement dwellers made sanitation affordable
… that the 2015 target for sanitation will not be achieved in many urban areas. Yet in many cities, locally-driven initiatives, involving … can be made. Today, hundreds of thousands of slum dwellers in India have community toilets and washing facilities, designed and … International , a network of community-based organisations of the urban poor in 33 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Further …
Insight, 05 April 2015
World Urban Forum 2008
… challenge is to minimise burgeoning poverty in cities, improve the urban poor's access to basic facilities such as shelter, clean water and sanitation and achieve environment-friendly, sustainable urban growth and development." ACHR Networking Event: Communities as Key … Presentations from a range of ACHR members included: Pakistan, India, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Srilanka, Indonesia and Burma. …
Event, 30 October 2008
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Ecological Urbanization
… are free to download (see below) This issue has an editorial on Urban ecologies by Graham Haughton and Gordon McGranahan that discusses both the debates and disagreements concerning urban environmental and ecological issues and the topics on which some … congestion and transport-related air pollution in Saharanpur, India The Feedback section has papers on: HIV/Aids and urban futures in …
Publication, 01 April 2006
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Addressing poverty and inequality – new forms of urban governance in Asia
… initiatives in 165 cities in 19 Asian nations and has set up Urban Poor Funds in more than 100 cities to help continue such support. … health and social implications of living in a non-notified slum in India; financing urban agriculture; and mapping and enumerating informal Roma settlements … Urban … Addressing poverty and inequality – new forms of urban governance in Asia …
Publication, 01 October 2012
Women work in an Agarbatti (incense stick) factory (Photo: Urban Health Resource Centre)
Unsmart, unsafe cities for informal workers: effective policy change will need better data
Insight, 05 April 2019
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Urban Climate Resilience: A review of the methodologies adopted under the ACCCRN initiative in Indian cities
… Cities across the world have started recognising the need to address urban climate vulnerabilities. In Asia, the role of the Asian Cities … the years, ACCCRN has worked in ten cities in four Asian countries (India, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam) on developing and demonstrating effective processes and practices for addressing urban climate vulnerabilities. This Working Paper aims to document and …
Publication, 01 December 2013
Brazilian favelas, such as this one in Rio De Janeiro, reflect a more passive resistance to urbanisation, involving a heavy legacy of social inequality and conflict (Photo: dany13, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Learning about urbanisation from the BRICS
… The urban transitions accompanying urbanisation have been central to the … economies. Even for the widely-heralded BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – these urban transitions have been far from painless. It is important that … Urban … Urbanisation and rural-urban linkages …
Project, 18 June 2015