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Cover for 10514IIED.pdf
Building better cities with children and youth
… Half the world’s children now live in urban areas - and the most pervasive violations of their rights are … living conditions. Children and youth have a right to a voice in matters that concern them. They are also experts on their own … of precedents that include: * Evaluations by children of their own urban neighbourhoods and how they could be improved; these also show how …
Publication, 01 October 2002
'Population Dynamics and Climate Change' book
… Growth and Urbanization for Climate Change . David Satterthwaite 4. Urban Form, Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Vulnerability . David Dodman 5. Mapping Urban Settlements adn the Risk of Climate Change in Africa, Asia and … Urban …
Article, 01 June 2010
Publications covers collage
IIED's best of 2019: publications
… sustainable investments in commercial agriculture. 4 Money where it matters: designing funds for the frontier Issue paper  With only US$1 in … the climate crisis, the assault on the natural world, increasing urban risk, and unsustainable markets. It outlines IIED's work … français ). 10 Climate crisis planning: a toolkit for building local urban resilience  Briefing Thailand’s cities are highly vulnerable to …
Article, 23 December 2019
The 2011 monsoon season brought unusually heavy rains and severe floods to many south-east Asian countries. Thailand was worst affected, with large parts of the Thai capital Bangkok under water (Photo: Chrisgel Ryan Cruz, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Thailand's floods: complex political and geographical factors behind the crisis
… Community-led responses to the flooding In response to this disaster, urban and rural community networks have linked together to organize  … stage, which is meant to be  a community-driven process  in both urban and rural areas, has also begun. With major flooding in Cambodia … Urban …
Insight, 02 November 2011
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Assessing progress – putting IIED’s gender research ambitions into practice
… The research worked with women in informal settlements to define urban food insecurity, considering how gender, caste, migration status … in how to integrate gender perspectives into research. And money matters. Data collection that is sensitive to gender and …
Insight, 23 April 2021
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 … International , a network of community-based organisations of the urban poor in 33 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Further … Urban …
Insight, 05 April 2015
Some of the publications published by IIED during 2016 (Image: Annette McGill/IIED)
IIED's best of 2016: publications
… role as an international development actor . Urbanisation, rural-urban migration and urban poverty Rural-urban migration continues to attract much interest, … related to urbanisation and rural-urban migration . The Urban Matters blog focuses on urban poverty, climate change in cities and …
Article, 02 January 2017
Screenshots from IIED best videos
IIED's best of 2020: videos
… experts from the Potato Park in Peru. 4 Protracted displacement in an urban world [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-N9RhACfuI] In … hosted the premiere of a 40-minute documentary telling the stories of urban refugees in Kenya. It showed the experiences of refugee households … in the video above that provides an overview of IIED’s Money Where it Matters framework , or over a series of sessions over several months …
Insight, 30 December 2020
Protesters march and carry climate-related placards
IIED and partner events at the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit
Event, 23 September 2019
The experiences of mountain communities in Kyrgyzstan were shared at a learning exchange (Photo: Alan Zulch)
Mountain communities stress the importance of biocultural heritage for global food security
… and natural resource rights are infringed and young people migrate to urban areas. Climate change is expected to put an added strain on food … is the only permanent forum for governments to discuss and negotiate matters specifically relevant to biological diversity for food and …
News, 15 February 2019