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A city-led strategy for sustainable development
… This backgrounder gives an overview of IIED's city-led strategy for sustainable development - a global programme of research, learning, training and … A city-led strategy for sustainable development …
Publication, 01 April 2014
A block of unfinished buildings, open to the elements
A world without refugee camps? IIED launches research on urban refugees
… able to meet their basic needs and exercise their human rights in a sustainable way, without reliance on humanitarian assistance. The …
Insight, 06 April 2020
Aerial view of Accra, Ghana.
African Cities Research Consortium
… Consortium (ACRC) aims to generate evidence to tackle complex urbanisation problems in some of Africa’s fastest growing city areas … localised activity. Led by professor Diana Mitlin, from the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester  and also a … objective is to produce new knowledge that can catalyse integrated, sustainable and inclusive approaches to address development challenges …
Project, 16 October 2020
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A new urban agenda?
… national governments at Habitat III, the UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development in October 2016. But it does not need to develop a … list of goals and commitments because these are already in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement. So the New …
Publication, 01 August 2016
People building informal houses on stilts behind rising water.
IIED at WUF11
Event, 26 June 2022
Jack fruit vendor spreads out their wares on the ground.
Putting informal food systems at the centre of sustainable diets
… and climate change, so that they can "deliver affordable and sustainable healthy diets for all, and decent livelihoods for food … systems less destructive of our natural environment. The concept of sustainable healthy diets (PDF) captures the goals and ambitions of this … food systems of lower-income countries. Rethinking the meaning of sustainable diets The toolbox for achieving sustainable diets has mainly …
Insight, 16 October 2020
A city view of Kolkata
City resilience bonds: an idea whose time has come?
… and past experiences are with structuring and issuing city bonds for sustainable development What potential and pitfalls of city resilience bonds are as …
Event, 29 June 2023
Langrug informal settlement, South Africa, May 2014 (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
Introduction to urban poverty
… working to reduce urban poverty, and to change misleading views about urbanisation and rural change. Drawing on the knowledge and practical … over the next five years we will: Help to ensure that the post-2015 sustainable development agenda  (replacing the Millennium Development Goals) pays …
Project, 09 September 2014
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Urbanization
… between rural and urban are increasingly blurred.  Nevertheless, urbanisation provides critical opportunities and challenges for sustainable development. Urbanisation and economic growth have combined to create …
Publication, 01 April 2015
A man lines up six bright water bottles under a series of outside taps
Definitions matter – part two
… monitor progress towards WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)   – adding hygiene and menstrual health to its …
Insight, 08 December 2021