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Washing in Kolkata. Urban poor groups must engage with city government and utility companies in order to become drivers for change (Photo: Wolfgang Sterneck, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Can global funds be accountable at the local level?
Insight, 09 August 2016
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Urbanisation and Development in South Africa: Economic Imperatives, Spatial Distortions and Strategic Responses
… new initiatives are emerging that may facilitate more coherent urban development in the future, including a more flexible housing … Urban …
Publication, 01 October 2012
Women harvesting brinjal near the Indian city of Gorakhpur. Peri-urban agriculture helps to ensure local food supplies, especially of fruit and vegetables (Photo: Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group)
Farming on the city's periphery to enhance resilience
Insight, 09 June 2015
Analysing the cost of adapting to climate change
Insight, 08 May 2012
Women are sat at tables selling food a distance apart
Uganda’s hungry food vendors: counting the cost of COVID-19
… often nutritious, food? This food is a lifeline for thousands of the urban poor. Tasty business  A normal evening in Fort-Portal town – …
Insight, 11 June 2020
Happy birthday! IIED is forty years old
… By forging alliances with individuals and organisations ranging from urban slum dwellers to global institutions, IIED ensures that national …
News, 21 October 2011
Esilalei, Tanzania: Teresia Olotai uses a refrigerator plugged into a solar powered micro-grid. Delivering energy access in rural Tanzania could help transform local economies (Photo: Morgana Wingard, USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
How energy can generate growth in Tanzania's rural economy
…   A major factor underpinning this disparity is Tanzania's huge rural-urban energy divide. According to the Tanzanian government's Energy Access Situation Report (PDF) almost two in three urban households in mainland Tanzania have access to electricity … in five in rural areas. Of households with connectivity, almost all urban households are grid-connected compared with just over a third of …
Insight, 21 September 2017
An association of farmers in northeast Myanmar carries out value chain analysis of elephant foot yam (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Strengthening producer organisations is key to making finance inclusive and effective
… can subsidise such costs, their reach is unlikely to extend beyond urban centers. A more innovative solution is to develop business … organisation alongside asset investments in production; and peri-urban and urban forest product-processing businesses to increase productivity. …
Article, 12 March 2019
An image of a man faking injury being treated by a Bangladesh firefighter as part of a training exercise on collaborative search and rescue operations, helping the city to respond more effectively to disasters (Photo: Oregon National Guard, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: Making the SDG agenda work for LDCs
Article, 25 May 2016
Has agriculture been a winner in the economic downturn?
… in 2007. The resulting food price crisis was felt particularly by the urban poor, as well as the rural poor who do not produce enough food for …
Insight, 14 June 2010