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An empty street in Barikab, Kabul, Afghanistan
Researching displacement: how do we know we are asking the right questions?
… displaced persons (IDPs) now live in towns and cities, with urban environments increasingly the preference over camps. Research, … and local action has been slow to catch up, and the experiences of urban refugees and their host communities are understudied. Little is … to the survey. Bridge building between those working on similar matters in different functions (and across countries) was an additional …
Insight, 19 April 2021
Cover for 10626IIED.pdf
A future that low-income urban dwellers want, and can help secure
… Urban development decision-makers rarely bring the urban poor themselves into their legislative, policy and programming … made a substantive contribution to poverty reduction. ~Context matters and it is clear that simple replication does not provide … Urban … A future that low-income urban dwellers want, and can help secure …
Publication, 01 March 2013
An open sewer runs in front of homes
City leaders need to rise to the climate change challenge
Insight, 08 February 2020
Woman using a public water tap in Kliptown, Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. Johannesburg uses 32 different indicators to assess progress towards its strategic goals. Indicators need to reflect the needs of marginalised and vulnerable groups (Photo: Ray Muzyka, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The value and limits of urban sustainability indicators
Insight, 21 April 2015
This week in Myanmar, pictured, the Forest Farm Facility is funding a national exchange between forest and farm producer groups and many other producer groups (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Forest and Farm Facility: Getting resources to those who matter
… in pressing their needs when in competition with connected urban elites and well-funded single-issue agendas that so many outsiders …
Insight, 24 March 2014
Shack dwellers from the eThekwini municipality protesting in Durban (Photo: Slum/Shack Dwellers International)
2008 Barbara Ward Lecture: Lindiwe Sisulu on managing relationships between the state and the urban poor
… Sisulu said the increasing number of people living in urban poverty was one of the biggest threats facing the developing … and governments in the developing world ignored populations living in urban slums at their own risk. She said the UN estimated that 1.4 billion people would be living in urban slums by 2020. Recent violence in Kenya and South Africa had shown …
Event, 15 July 2008
A row of houses called Garden Road Colony, Karachi, Pakistan.
Study reveals roots of urban land issues that limit development
… irrelevant. "The development orthodoxy is to seek solutions to urban development challenges in either better government policies or … and other federal land owning agencies also interfere in land-related matters within the city. These sorts of messy politics make social and … "The current status of development in Karachi and many other urban centres is rooted in struggles that cannot be addressed without …
News, 26 March 2013
Cover for G02647.pdf
Does population matter for climate change?
… Urban …
Publication, 01 January 2009
Cover for 17422IIED.pdf
Refugees in urban Egypt: it’s time to reassess UNHCR’s 2009 Policy on refugee protection and solutions in urban areas
… how a country that relies almost solely on UNHCR for refugee-related matters can cope with the increasing influxes, it is essential that … Urban … Refugees in urban Egypt: it’s time to reassess UNHCR’s 2009 Policy on refugee protection and solutions in urban areas …
Publication, 01 June 2017
Pedicabs on the flooded streets of Manila, Philippines.
How does a changing climate impact on urban poverty?
… in seven of the world’s population lives in informal settlements in urban areas. When storms or floods hit cities, it is generally … infrastructure. But city governments can take measures to reduce urban poverty that also contribute to reducing disaster risk and to … Urban … How does a changing climate impact on urban poverty? …
Insight, 28 March 2013