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Prema Gopalan stands centre stage in an orange sari. Two men present her with a certificate; two others stand behind and applaud.
Prema Gopalan remembered
… Patel in 1984. One of the largest NGOs in India, it works with the urban poor on issues such as housing and sanitation. In 1993 she started … Prema was a co-founder of SPARC and began working with poor urban women. She explored the potential for networking with women’s …
News, 23 May 2022
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Towards resilience and transformation for cities within a finite planet
… and little possibility of managing land use, new construction and urban expansion in ways that support resilience. Meanwhile, achieving … Urban …
Publication, 01 October 2013
A street in Beirut.
Stronger Cities Initiative
… The Urban Crises Learning Fund  built the capacity of local and international humanitarian actors to implement effective urban humanitarian responses. This part of the project brought together … but they may be adapted for a variety of responses to urban crises or disasters.  Urban context analysis toolkit This paper provides guidance …
Article, 31 May 2017
IIED will be participating in a range of event at Habitat III, the global UN summit on urban issues
IIED at Habitat III: event listing
… conference was held 20 years ago, and Habitat III adopted the 'New Urban Agenda'. This 'action-oriented document' aims to set global standards of achievement in sustainable urban development, and secure cooperation from global stakeholders to … objectives were: Secure renewed political commitment for sustainable urban development Assessing accomplishments to date Addressing poverty, …
Event, 20 October 2016
Lebanon is hosting one million Syrian refugees, and around half of them are children. Most families live in makeshift shelters; some rent half-built apartments, sharing with two or three families (Photo: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development, Creative Commons via Wikipedia)
Coping with forced displacement: lessons from cities
… Conversations around urban resilience often focus on making cities better able to withstand … people fleeing conflict, disaster or other threats.  An increasingly urban challenge There are 65.3 million forcibly displaced people around … Syrian refugees was led by people's hearts, it soon became clear that planning was required to coordinate everyone involved in the response. …
Insight, 11 May 2017
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Reducing risks to cities from disasters and climate change
… change ~-Stakeholder-based strategies for risk reduction for the urban poor ~-A Municipal Adaptation Plan (MAP) for climate change for … Urban … Reducing risks to cities from disasters and climate change …
Publication, 01 April 2007
Mogadishu attracts people from all over the country, making it the second-fastest growing city in the world, with a 4% annual rate of urbanisation growth (Photo: Baron Reznik, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The challenge of finding money to build shelter in Mogadishu’s informal settlements
… capital, Mogadishu, is the starkest example of the country’s urban housing problem. The city attracts people from all over the … they lose their income source when fleeing conflicts or environmental disasters. Thus, the influx of people arriving daily into Mogadishu is … institutions, real estate developers, notaries, architects, urban planning experts, and so on.  Notably, while the diaspora, banks and …
Insight, 28 January 2019
Smog over Kathamandu. Air pollution in Nepal's capital regularly breaches the World Health Organisation's safety guidelines (Kashish Das Shrestha)
Clearing the air in Kathmandu
… is also one of the fastest urbanising. Kathmandu is Nepal's largest urban centre with an annual growth rate of five per cent. How the valley … liveability and manages its continued growth can help shape Nepal's urban future.  The crisis "Air pollution in Nepal's urban centres, and … incentive.  Solar power also reduces Kathmandu's vulnerability to disasters: when the quake struck last April, the grid shut down, and the …
Insight, 07 June 2016
Adaptation to climate change faces major constraints in urban areas
… urges governments and international agencies to take adaptation in urban areas much more seriously. It says that if action is taken now, … death, injury and property loss. As climate change intensifies, urban centres will face growing risks from storms, floods, heat waves … (David Satterthwaite, IIED). The death toll and other costs from disasters have grown rapidly over the past few decades, and 95 per cent …
News, 13 November 2007
People stand on a sea-wall with a road and look out at the ocean.
8 points on financing climate change adaptation in urban areas
… the funds so other community initiatives could be supported. 2:  Urban dwellers as local risk analysts, managers and reducers The billion urban dwellers who live in informal settlements are among those most at … built homes and constructed 2,500 eco-friendly toilets in different urban centres. 3:  Partnerships between slum dweller groups and city …
Insight, 20 June 2013