Items tagged:
Water and sanitation
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An unexpected cooperative project to lighten women's pandemic clothes-washing burden
Our guest bloggers describe how limited funds, made available during the pandemic, led to a cooperative business start-up which eases the domestic burden on women, benefits the local community and improves public health by reducing infection risk
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Climate, health and urban informal economies – stories of need and change
‘Informal’ workers’ precarious and risky labour underpins many urban economies. Overlooked by policymakers, their health suffers with climate change. Lived experience from Indore, India and Harare and Masvingo in Zimbabwe illuminates three areas where urgent action is needed
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Definitions matter – part two
How is it possible to monitor progress, or otherwise, towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for water and sanitation without clear definitions?
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Definitions matter – part one
Why is it that many of the key statistics used to measure progress in development have no agreed definition – ‘city population’, ‘water availability’, ‘slum’ and ‘poverty line’ to name but a few
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Do urban populations benefit from urban bias?
Conventional wisdom suggests that most poverty is in rural areas. But as there is so little research, how can we know if this is true?
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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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How small changes can make a big impact in achieving sustainable sanitation
Facebook guest blogger Laia Gemma García describes how the traditional pit latrine got an upgrade as part of a project in rural Tanzania
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Grassroots insights into urban risk and resilience
This IIED research project forges interdisciplinary pathways to resilience with communities in Dar es Salaam
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Working with informality for more resilient, equitable responses to COVID-19
In this second report in our series setting out key lessons from the coronavirus pandemic, we highlight the need for COVID-19 responses that work with the informal sector
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Transforming aid for urban areas
There is a new way to finance community-driven development, working with local funds set up and managed by grassroots organisations. This can work well at scale with local governments to meet basic needs and reduce urban poverty. David Satterthwaite explains why it’s time external agencies took note of this
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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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Water in MENA: ripple effects in times of conflict
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has been hit by a wave of conflicts and crisis. A new study looks at how to improve resilience of water services in the region
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Connecting settlements, cities and basins: realising SDG 6 at scale
World Water Week is an important opportunity to tackle the gap between global ambitions to achieve fair access to water and sanitation – and realities on the ground
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World Water Week 2016: key resources
With this year's World Water Week running from 28 August to 2 September in Stockholm, Sweden, IIED has collected a range of resources detailing its work on water issues
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An urban approach to 'leaving no one behind'
Taking an urban approach can help identify who is at risk of 'being left behind' and how this can be avoided
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Improved water access unaffordable for urban poor
On World Water Day, a new briefing shows that the urban poor are missing out on the benefits of 'improved' water services because the costs are too high
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Seizing the day without falling off the bandwagon
Whether you're marking World Toilet Day or World Philosophy Day, IIED's web content manager has a list of dos and don'ts to help get your message across
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Sanitation in informal settlements: a networked problem
Can understanding how people perceive sanitation help achieve sustainable access to sanitation in cities?
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How India's slum and pavement dwellers made sanitation affordable
In India, slum and pavement dwellers' organisations have designed and managed a programme of community toilets and washing facilities that are used by hundreds of thousands of households. Guest blogger Sheela Patel describes how this was achieved
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Why sanitation, spearhead of urban improvement in the 19th century, has become the laggard of the 21st
Drawing on a recently published paper in 'World Development', Gordon McGranahan considers why, given we seem to have the know-how, there are still so many people in cities without decent sanitation
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World Toilet Day: People need equality and dignity when they 'have to go'
On World Toilet Day on 19 November, our photoblog details the work of IIED and its partners to tackle the fact that 2.5 billion people lack access to basic sanitation
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Achieving universal sanitation: Sharing the experience of the SDI affiliate in Blantyre, Malawi
Achieving universal sanitation is a major challenge. A joint delegation from Malawi came to World Water Week in Stockholm to share their work on sanitation in the city of Blantyre
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Ten projects receive funding for research into climate change resilience
Ten organisations have been selected to receive IIED funding for research into helping Asian cities adapt to climate change
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Urban water and sanitation
With water and sanitation recognised as human rights, IIED has been working with local partners to identify how sanitation can be improved in deprived urban locations
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The real issue is universal access to affordable basic services
Why have global leaders endorsed partial Millennium Development Goal targets, asks Diana Mitlin, leaving millions without water, sanitation or healthcare?
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Thailand's floods: complex political and geographical factors behind the crisis
The scale of Thailand's floods are unprecedented. In the midst of the crisis, water management has become a politically sensitive matter
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PLA 61: Tales of shit: Community-Led Total Sanitation in Africa
Keep up to date with the latest participation news from Participatory Learning and Action – a leading informal journal on participatory methods and approaches that strengthen rights, voice and governance and promote social justice. The series is published in English, with some issues translated into other languages, and some issues available in multimedia formats.
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