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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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A man walking in a flooded street

Transitioning to a better global ‘new normal’

Insight, 22 April 2020

Two women walking in a slum

COVID-19: on the front line where crisis meets normal

Insight, 16 April 2020

Hundreds of densely packed houses climb into the mountains

Dealing with COVID-19 in the towns and cities of the global South

Insight, 27 March 2020

An aerial view of people in an informal settlement

Alternative data sources for cities and communities

Insight, 12 March 2020

A close-up of the virus that causes COVID-19

Coronavirus threat looms large for low-income cities

Insight, 26 February 2020

An open sewer runs in front of homes

City leaders need to rise to the climate change challenge

Insight, 08 February 2020

A landscape of old houses

Q&A: blog series explores the transition to a predominantly urban world

Article, 16 January 2020

People walk past ruined buildings

Haiti earthquake 10 years on – a new chapter in disaster response

Insight, 12 January 2020

Water with open sewage is stagnant in a built up area

Planning for reality in one of Nairobi’s largest ‘slums’

Insight, 04 December 2019

A busy street

The rise of Nairobi’s concrete tenement jungle

Insight, 31 July 2019

A view of the migrant informal community of Marathahalli, Bengaluru

‘Participatory’ adaptation plans aren’t working for migrants in cities

Insight, 09 May 2019

Women work in an Agarbatti (incense stick) factory (Photo: Urban Health Resource Centre)

Unsmart, unsafe cities for informal workers: effective policy change will need better data

Insight, 05 April 2019

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

Insight, 28 January 2019

House under construction. In Harare, construction and infrastructure works were carried out by the community, while city authorities and Dialogue on Shelter provided technical support and some machinery. (Photo: Slum Dwellers International, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Delivering climate finance at the local level: the Gungano Urban Poor Fund

Article, 22 November 2018

Informal housing in Addis Ababa. Ethiopia's cities are struggling to meet demand for affordable housing and settlements are growing (Photo: Olli Pitkänen, Creative Commons via Flickr)

The Ethiopian informal settlement jigsaw puzzle: an opportunity to re-sort the pieces?

Insight, 25 October 2018

Women living in informal settlements in Harare (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)

Co-production in urban areas: evolving form, enduring presence

Insight, 24 October 2018

Home workers making bouquets (Photo: Siddharth Agarwal/UHRC)

Addressing risks facing informal workers

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There is often very little data available about people living in informal settlements such as these along the riverfront in Ahmedabad in India (Photo: Emmanuel Dyan, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Is urban development too complicated for us?

Insight, 17 May 2018

View over the Mukuru informal settlement in Nairobi, showing corrugated roofs

Shelter provision in East African cities: understanding transformative politics for inclusive cities

Archived Project

Esther Atieno prepares dinner for her family in Kisumu City, Kenya, using a jiko kisasa (firewood stove). Without city-wide data on electricity and fuel use available from utilities and companies, cities can survey a set of households on their energy use and extrapolate the results (Photo: Peter Kapuscinski/World Bank)

Global to local: supporting cities to meet the New Urban Agenda

Insight, 23 March 2018

The UN estimates that a million Somalis were displaced during 2017. Many move to informal settlements on the fringes of the capital, Mogadishu (Photo: AMISOM Public Information via Wikimedia Commons)

Providing shelter in East African cities: what works?

Insight, 22 February 2018

A 'peace wall' in Mukuru, one of the largest slums in Nairobi, Kenya (Photo: Urban ARK)

A special approach to slum upgrading: the Special Planning Area in Mukuru, Nairobi

Insight, 18 October 2017

Informal settlements like this one in Jakarta often lack clean water supplies, waste collection or decent housing. There is an urgent need for investment in basic services and infrastructure (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)

Are impact investors missing a trick by overlooking local communities?

Insight, 07 September 2017

Community leaders in the Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia planning with staff from the Namibia Housing Action Group (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)

Financial inequalities; defining our age

Insight, 22 August 2017

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