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A world without refugee camps? IIED launches research on urban refugees
… the living conditions of refugees in Africa or the Middle East, what do you see? An image in your mind’s eye of rows and rows of white … Or a nondescript apartment block? A shack in an informal settlement?  For most people it’s the former – and there’s a reason why the image of … a shack or an apartment, or living in temporary structures on empty land. Camps limit people’s movements and curtail their economic …
Insight, 06 April 2020
A villager gathers medicinal bark in Mozambique
Investing in sustainable productivity could secure REDD+ schemes long term
Insight, 13 December 2012
The cracked mud of a dried-up reservoir bed, with a dead river-mussel shell in the foreground and an abandoned boat in the background
Strengthening development in the face of the climate crisis and environmental destruction
Insight, 31 October 2019
Garment workers in Bangladesh - increasing automation threatens low-cost manufacturing jobs in developing countries (Photo: NYU Stern BHR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Automation, the changing world of work, and sustainable development
… to the literature on technological change and its implications for what we humans are going to be doing for a job in the … structured incentives to those who manage agricultural and forest land, is worth considering. I was recently on a panel dealing with the …
Insight, 17 August 2017
A toilet block in Mumbai, India, where people living in different informal settlements experience distinct forms of inadequate sanitation (Photo: Renu Desai)
Sanitation in informal settlements: a networked problem
… only diverse, they are also changing, and vary from place to place (for an overview of existing knowledge and debates, see the April and … others the question of who delivers sanitation is a distant second to land and security of tenure. In some places the biggest challenge is a … right to sanitation and water. Moral economies are understandings of what should and should not be provided to people by the state or other …
Insight, 26 August 2015
‘Act on nature’, demand hundreds of organisations, in unprecedented call to world leaders
… have today (18 September) issued unprecedented coordinated calls for urgent action on nature to protect human and planetary health. … WWF International; IIED; Capitals Coalition; International Land Coalition; and Conservation International. BirdLife International … to halt the loss of biodiversity and start the process of restoring what we have lost. How this is done must respect the rights of the …
News, 18 September 2020
"Paz" (peace) graffiti in Medellín, Colombia. The text to the right translates as "Mural in tribute to our victims of conflict" (Photo: Cathy McIlwaine)
New approach paves way to manage violence in cities in the global South
… the complex relationship between gangs, their identities and what motivates them. Understanding how these groups are structured … in conflict in urban areas, with many cities now being primary sites for warfare. Although conflict has always been present in some form, it … violence in post-invasion Kabul, Afghanistan Rethinking access to land and violence in post-war cities: reflections from Juba, Southern …
News, 15 October 2014
West African farmers heard at UK Houses of Parliament
… in turn, much of rural Africa, would be the first to be consulted on what agricultural research would benefit them. But a series of citizen … problem that a video linking up West African Farmers and the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) , a major funder of agricultural … One of them spoke of the need for women to be able to own their land because they were often the ones carrying much of the agricultural …
Insight, 04 February 2012
Covers of top publications of 2020.
IIED's best of 2020: publications
… about this work: This guide published by IIED, EVALSDGs, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and UNICEF, is built on lived experiences … destructive activities in other areas,” says IIED’s Paul Steele . 5 What is effective climate adaptation? Case studies from the least … on natural resources. People who have a strong connection with land, water and other resources are feeling the squeeze – including …
Article, 23 December 2020
The slogan on a woman T-shirt in Kitwe, Zambia - emblazoned with 'Addressing water and sanitation challenges through city-wide partnerships' - highlights the community-led approach (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
Local funds allow informal-settlement residents to shape development
… by 2030, just 14 years away. This means there is an urgent need for investment finance – both to address long-standing deficiencies in … with partners. Part of the answer could lie in community finance. What is community finance? Across towns and cities in the global South, … our dirty water everywhere, and it is not safe.  "When the government works with us to fix these problems, they know that the communities will …
Insight, 01 November 2016