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Makeshift camps for internally displaced people sprang up in Kathmandu after the severe earthquake in Nepal in April 2015. Relief workers are struggling to help displaced people find durable shelter as the country braces for the monsoon season (Photo: SIM Central and South East Asia, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Urban Crises Learning Fund

Archived Project

Preview of 16643IIED.pdf

Bearing the climate burden: how households in Bangladesh are spending too much

Publication, 01 September 2019

People serving food

Podcast: Improving climate budgeting during COVID-19

News, 05 June 2020

People walk past ruined buildings

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

Insight, 12 January 2020

Two men huddle over a map and make annotations.

10 years on: What Haiti taught us about urban crises and community planning

Event on 23 January 2020

When infrastructure is not provided, or not affordable, the urban poor find their own way around the problem, as in Delhi, India, where electricity is tapped

Urban crisis response needs a humanitarian sector shake-up

Insight, 15 December 2017

A resettlement site in Guiuan, in the Philippines, almost three years after super typhoon Haiyan with 'temporary' shelters that have been adapted by residents (Photo: Elizabeth Parker)

Post-crisis urban planning: lessons from Southeast Asia

Insight, 06 December 2017

A street in Beirut.

Stronger Cities Initiative

Article

At least 339 people were killed and more than 1 million left homeless across Bangladesh and India after Severe Cyclonic Storm Aila in 2009. This photo shows flooded houses and a burst embankment in Sundarbans, in West Bengal, India (Photo: William Lee-Wright, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Denying denial: climate facts and impacts

Insight, 14 February 2017

Indigeonous communities join government officials, NGOs and academics to participate in a ridge-to-reef mapping workshop in Cagayan de Oro City to identify threats to the forest and environment ecosystem (Photo: Horacio Marcos C. Mordeno, MindaNews, Creative Commons via Flickr)

International Disaster and Risk Conference 2016: key resources

Article, 28 August 2016

An image of television footage of a man standing instead a destroyed house after Cyclone Roanu hit Bangaldesh (Photo: Google licence)

Cyclone Roanu hits Bangladesh: a story of loss and damage avoided

Insight, 27 May 2016

The earthquake that hit Nepal and areas of Bangladesh, India and Tibet on has had devastating consequences, with loss of life and destruction (Photo: Udayan Mishra, Creative Commons via Flickr)

IIED responds to Nepal earthquake

News, 27 April 2015

Disasters, such as this flooding in Old Bagamoyo Road, Mikocheni, Dar es Salaam, were the subject of discussion in Sendai (Photo: Matthew Wood-Hill, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Keep it simple: helping local governments reduce the risk from the next disaster

Insight, 25 March 2015

An image taken by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center shows Tropical Storm Hagupit weakening as it nears Manila, but it has already claimed 21 lives while COP20 proceeds in Lima (Photo: NASA/NOAA via NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory)

Philippines to lead global forum of vulnerable countries

News, 09 December 2014

Flooding in a Manila slum particularly affects street and slum children (Photo: Jörg Dietze/SuSanA Secretariat via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

Poorest urban children failed in disasters, says report

News, 03 March 2014

Pedicabs on the flooded streets of Manila, Philippines.

How does a changing climate impact on urban poverty?

Insight, 28 March 2013

Why survivors should lead responses to disasters

Insight, 20 October 2011

Adapting to climate change in Bangladesh

Insight, 30 March 2011

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