Policy and planning

Pages tagged with

Informal settlements (slums)

Projects, publications, news, events, insights and articles about work on the governance, policy and action needed to address the growing challenges faced by 1.1 billion people living in informal settlements.

In-depth reading

Urbanisation and rural-urban linkages

A programme of work on urbanisation and the links between rural and urban areas

183 entries

Several people bending town and pointing at a piece of flipchart paper on the floor, with a lot of writing on it.

Slum upgrading is climate action

Insight, 21 May 2025

Preview of 22632G.PDF

Community-led climate adaptation in informal settlements: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Publication, 28 April 2025

Aerial view on Sao Paulo showing different types of housing like sky scrappers and slums.

SECURe: Strengthening and Enhancing Contextual Urban Resilience

Archived Project

Preview of 22614iied.pdf

Analysing value chains in informal settlements: a how-to guide for community-led approaches – the case of building materials

Publication, 12 May 2025

Preview of 22613iied.pdf

Better cities are possible: transforming informal settlements on a warming planet

Publication, 23 April 2025

Group of community members recording via interviews via their phones.

Community-led innovations leading to transformative change

Insight, 27 February 2025

Image showing the fishing community slum of Sai Baba Sahi after the construction, with a main street paved with stones, houses and shops.

It takes two (for a disaster) to tango

Insight, 13 December 2024

Two people holding plants and discussing.

Cities are vulnerable to climate change and central to its solutions

Insight, 20 November 2024

People queueing.

I hate queueing: is it ever a good thing?

Insight, 30 October 2024

Aerial view of a cities with packed informal settlements in the foreground and skyscrapers in the background.

Climate resilience and informal settlements: the urgent need to focus on how power and knowledge interact

Article, 30 October 2024

Preview of 22590IIED.pdf

Climate justice in informal settlements in Buenos Aires

Publication, 05 November 2024

Preview of Cover of publication.

Displaced people: the need for an ‘urban first’ approach

Publication, 25 September 2024

Washing blocks in informal settlements with clothes hang to dry outside.

Global campaign for a ‘Roof Over Our Heads’

Insight, 14 August 2024

Open air laundry place in Mumbai, clothes and pieces of material hanging on strings and air drying.

Principles of community organisation according to Jockin Arputham – and why they are relevant today

Insight, 10 July 2024

Rows of grey bricks on the ground outside a house. In the background, washing is hanging on a line.

Building resilient homes in informal settlements

Long read, 25 June 2024

Preview of 22441iied.pdf

Climate action for equitable cities: working with informal communities to develop low-carbon, resilient futures

Publication, 07 June 2024

A bearded man stands at a podium with a screen behind him.

Urban legend: one man, 50 years, countless seeds of hope

Long read, 13 May 2024

A tall metal water tower with several small brick buildings around it.

Community-led climate action: building equitable, resilient cities from the bottom up

Insight, 02 May 2024

David Satterthwaite

Urban resilience past, present and future: celebrating David Satterthwaite

Event on 14 May 2024

People building a wall out of disused tyres.

Tegucigalpa: From climate change adaptation to mitigation strategies in informal urban settlements

Article, 14 February 2024

Preview of 22206IIED.pdf

Defending housing rights in Lagos. A historical perspective on state-citizen contestations and emerging opportunities for housing policy reform

Publication, 12 December 2023

A street in a village with a house and a blue window and clothes hanging from a wire.

Further data tales: decoding land ownership and other challenges

Insight, 25 October 2023

Overview of the Nawalane neighbourhood, street with buildings on one side.

Case studies on urban density from Karachi, Bangkok and Kathmandu

Article, 25 August 2023

A boat on a river next to a pile of garbage with buildings in the background.

Climate chasm: the yawning gap between policy and reality

Insight, 24 July 2023

Related tags

Urban Matters blog

Slum Dwellers International (SDI)

Urban development