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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.

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Urbanisation and rural-urban linkages

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

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Closely built shacks. In the background, trees. In the foreground, a river and, on the other side of it, smoke.

Introduction to urban health equity: addressing risks, promoting gender equality and fostering wellbeing in informal settings

Article, 09 June 2022

A group of women gather round the entrance to a building.

The health, wellbeing and climate benefits of slum upgrading

Article, 09 June 2022

A busy African street scene, with industrial buildings in the background.

Tackling air pollution in informal settlements in Kenya

Active Project

A woman sits in the courtyard of a building, washing clothes in a small bowl.

Risks to health in informal settlements

Article, 09 June 2022

A woman in a yellow sari and wearing a facemask is standing in a field of crops. She is putting the plants into a bag tied around her waist.

Resilience through flexibility – the story of peri-urban agricultural workers in India

Article, 06 June 2022

Three women holding a sack of rice between them.

Seeking cheaper, better quality rice: the cooperative rice distribution project in Jakarta

Insight, 25 May 2022

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Climate change, health and informal workers – highlighting urban challenges and responses from India and Zimbabwe

Event on 08 June 2022

An aerial view of dozens of shack housing in close proximity, with colourful roofs

Bridging the urban adaptation finance gap

Insight, 25 April 2022

Clothes hang on lines outside small poorly maintained houses

Introduction to building transformative urban resilience for all

Article

Aerial view of informal housing.

Data to drive informal settlement upgrading. Who generates it – and who owns it?

Insight, 03 March 2022

View of a busy street with clothes stalls and shops and people walking.

Research with refugees: taking care not to cut a long story short

Insight, 28 February 2022

An aerial view of Nairobi, with slums in the foreground alongside green space

Tomorrow’s cities: reducing disaster risk for the poor

Active Project

Building split in half

From protector to evictor of slum residents – reversal of roles for the judiciary

Insight, 24 February 2022

A group of people stand around a map on a table.

Kota Kita: facilitating citizen-led urban development

Article, 22 February 2022

People sit on the floor in group under cover facing a standing man making a presentation/speech

Building resilience to climate change through slum upgrading – the case of Jaga Mission in Odisha, India

Insight, 07 February 2022

Aerial view of an informal settlement and an urban centre in the background

Rethinking household surveys reveals true picture of health inequality

Insight, 18 January 2022

A woman crouches on the flor next to a stove to make a meal

Multiple housing and climate-related vulnerabilities of informal workers in Indore, India

Insight, 16 December 2021

Busy road with people and motorbikes.

Film exploring the lives of urban refugees wins best documentary at Kenyan film festival

News, 14 December 2021

Skyline view of a city with houses and short buildings in the front and skyscrapers in the background.

Q&A: Citizen participation in planning − from the neighbourhood to the city

Article, 10 December 2021

A small brick building with two steps leading to a corrugated iron door houses a pit latrine.

The case for sewers

Insight, 19 November 2021

Screengrab of a videocall with eight people in a meeting room and five more online participants

Digital tools amplify the voice of women in Peruvian communities

Insight, 11 November 2021

Informal housing and tall buildings behind.

Definitions matter – part one

Insight, 10 November 2021

Informal housing by the river.

Upgrading informal settlements in the global South: transforming relations with government, transforming lives

Insight, 05 October 2021

A house on stilts above a body of water.

Introduction to housing justice

Article

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