Items tagged:
Refugees
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Introduction to urban health equity: addressing risks, promoting gender equality and fostering wellbeing in informal settings
With low-quality housing, deficient infrastructure, food insecurity and precarious livelihoods, people living and working in informal settings face multiple health risks.
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Research with refugees: taking care not to cut a long story short
Protocols for ethical research are essential for upholding key principles. But the practicalities of applying these protocols raised questions and challenges during a research project with refugees in a Nairobi trade hub.
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Film exploring the lives of urban refugees wins best documentary at Kenyan film festival
A hard-hitting film telling the stories of Nairobi’s urban refugees in their own words has won best documentary at the Eldoret Film Festival. Made by young Kenyans in an informal settlement, IIED premiered the film in September 2020, timed to coincide with the opening of the UN General Assembly
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Climate-induced migration illustrates loss and damage already being felt by communities
As global warming bites, vulnerable communities are being pushed from their homes by disasters and longer-term pressures, and desperately require financial help
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New website for research into refugee wellbeing and livelihoods
IIED and partners have launched a website that focuses on the wellbeing, self-reliance and livelihoods of displaced people in urban areas and camps in four countries
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Tricky questions and frank discussions: a participatory forum on protracted displacement in Afghanistan
Guest blogger Nassim Majidi draws together three key points emerging from a recent multi-stakeholder forum aimed at developing innovative and inclusive solutions to manage forced displacement in Afghanistan
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Rethinking humanitarian aid for refugees as investment in urban water and sanitation
This research looks at the issue of forced displacement through a new lens. It will model what could be achieved for refugees and their hosts if resources spent on camp populations were invested instead in services and infrastructure in towns and cities hosting refugees
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Researching displacement: how do we know we are asking the right questions?
Inclusivity and co-design were key in creating a survey to examine the wellbeing, self-reliance and livelihoods of displaced people in urban areas and camps across four countries
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City residents and urban refugees: from shared living to shared futures
Tools used to document the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in one of Nairobi's largest informal settlements are also being used to chart how the lockdowns disproportionately affected displaced people
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Introduction to urban crises and forced displacement
IIED’s programme of work brings together diverse perspectives on humanitarian emergencies and forced displacement, to inform new directions in urban crisis response
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Calibrating cooking to affect deforestation and violence against women in displaced settings
Cooking activities, deforestation and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) are dynamics that closely interact in displacement settings across the globe. Commissioned by Irish Aid, IIED’s study on cookstoves and fuels examined options for displaced communities in Kigoma, Tanzania, and considered lessons from other countries
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Film launch: Protracted displacement and urban crises
On Monday, 28 September 2020, IIED premiered a film telling the stories of urban refugees in Kenya. This event was held to coincide with the opening of the UN General Assembly and featured a Q&A with the documentary makers and other urban experts
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Displacement and the pandemic
In our fifth report on emerging lessons from COVID-19, we look at how the pandemic is affecting displaced people
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Bringing urban refugees into local planning
Can we move from emergency to developmental response to the large and growing numbers of refugees living in urban areas by bringing them into local planning processes?
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Reimagining refugee futures: cities, not camps? Make Change Happen podcast episode 6
For World Refugee Day, we discuss new IIED research comparing refugees’ experiences of life in urban areas to that in camps, and hear about an energy access project that captures some of the complexity of working with displaced people
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IIED and partners call for cities to develop a proactive response to urban displacement
IIED and partners’ submission to UN High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement calls for a complete rethinking of how government and other actors respond to internal displacement in urban areas
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A world without refugee camps? IIED launches research on urban refugees
Most refugees and displaced people live in towns and cities – not camps. New research from IIED will build understanding of how urban areas could be the best place to meet the needs and aspirations of these groups
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Towards more inclusive urban health systems for refugee wellbeing
The British Academy’s Cities and Infrastructure programme funded IIED to work with partners in Kampala, Uganda and Nairobi, Kenya to undertake research on access to healthcare and other basic services for urban refugees
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Responding to protracted displacement in an urban world
IIED is leading a study that will compare the experiences of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in cities and camps in four countries – Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Jordan and Kenya
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Kampala sets example for how cities can help refugees
On World Refugee Day Diane Archer looks at how one city in Africa is exploring ways to support its refugee and migrant population
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Getting Lebanon’s water flowing: using new SDG data in an urban crisis
Anna Walnycki explains how reliable, disaggregated data on water access – supported by the framework of the SDGs – could help tackle the challenges facing Lebanon's water sector
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Coping with forced displacement: lessons from cities
People forced to leave their homes are often displaced for many years, and most end up in urban areas. So how can host cities become more resilient while managing such crises? A meeting last week shared learning from Africa, Asia and the Middle East, reports Diane Archer
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Refugee livelihoods in Ugandan cities: mind the gap between policy and practice
Uganda has one of the most open-door refugee policies in the world. But improving the lives of urban refugees on the ground requires government and community organisations to work together to put these policies into practice
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Critical theme: Conflict, climate and migration in Syria – did the media get it right?
Our October Critical Theme seminar was about how the media have been reporting on the connections between migration, climate change and the conflict in Syria. Keynote speaker Alex Randall, the programme manager at the Climate and Migration Coalition, an alliance of refugee, human rights, and migration rights organisations, argued that the story presented about the connection between climate change and the Syrian conflict has not always been accurate
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Responding to transit refugees in Croatia
How do local authorities and humanitarian agencies collaborate when refugees are in transit? An IIED-supported research project is looking at the transit refugee response in Croatia
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Revealing the hidden refugees in African cities
A growing number of refugees and displaced people are living in cities in East Africa and the Horn of Africa – but governments are slow to recognise and meet their needs
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Why urbanisation matters in responding to humanitarian crises
While the plight of Syrian refugees trying to get to Europe is grabbing attention, far more are living in cities and towns in the region. IIED hosted a recent workshop to look at how their needs can be best met
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In this war of words, no one is the victor
The Syrian crisis has been described as the worst humanitarian emergency since the Second World War. It is time to put aside the semantics of migrants versus refugees, and face up to the human suffering as a global community
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Climate refugees of the future
Bangladesh is calling for the rights of environmental refugees to be recognised as the country battles rising sea levels and chronic poverty
