Monitoring, evaluation and learning

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Water and sanitation

123 entries

Preview of 9160IIED.pdf

Demand-Side Water Strategies and the Urban Poor

Publication, 01 January 2002

Preview of G02797.pdf

Editorial, glossary and abstracts (PLA 61)

Publication, 01 November 2010

Preview of 10779IIED.pdf

Building Climate Resilience to Noapara Town: A Coastal Urban Centre of Bangladesh

Publication, 01 May 2016

Preview of 10584IIED.pdf

Groundwater, self-supply and poor urban dwellers: A review with case studies of Bangalore and Lusaka

Publication, 01 November 2010

Preview of G02808.pdf

A note for trainers, facilitators and those commissioning CLTS training (PLA 61)

Publication, 01 November 2010

Woman washing dishes in a bowl outside.

Grassroots insights into urban risk and resilience

Active Project

People sit on wall facing a woman distributing water

Working with informality for more resilient, equitable responses to COVID-19

Article, 10 July 2020

A daily savings book: local savings groups collect small payments from slum dwellers which can be leveraged to support slum upgrading projects (Photo: SDI, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Transforming aid for urban areas

Insight, 04 September 2018

With water shortages in Lebanon, many households have water storage facilities

Getting Lebanon’s water flowing: using new SDG data in an urban crisis

Insight, 19 February 2018

About 1.5 million Syrians are currently in Lebanon. The influx has added complexity to an already fragile system of water provision (Photo: Loan Diep)

Water in MENA: ripple effects in times of conflict

Insight, 12 December 2017

Geographic patterns are seen out the window of an airplane traveling between Mwanza and Dar Es Salam, Tanzania on March 20, 2015 (Photo: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)

Connecting cities to basins

Long read, 06 February 2017

Nearly 80 per cent of Dar es Salaam's residents live in informal settlements, and less than 10 per cent of the city has sewer access (Photo: Anna Walnycki/IIED)

Connecting settlements, cities and basins: realising SDG 6 at scale

Insight, 25 August 2016

The journey to fetch fresh water for a resident of the Dharavi slum in Mumbai, India (Photo: Meena Kadri, Creative Commons via Flickr)

World Water Week 2016: key resources

Article, 24 August 2016

An image of crouching community members in a village in Champasak province, Laos identify areas where open defecation is taking place ahead of implementing sanitation measures (Photo: Viengsompasong Inthavong/World Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

An urban approach to 'leaving no one behind'

Insight, 02 June 2016

Water kiosks in Zambia provide safe drinking water for poor households in peri urban areas of Chipata. Careful consideration of the affordability of water services for the urban poor is vital to provide universal and equitable access to safe and affordable water for everyone by 2030 (Photo: SuSanA Secretariat, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Improved water access unaffordable for urban poor

Insight, 22 March 2016

International days are used to promote awareness and action on important topics. But how does IIED engage with them? (Image: IIED)

Seizing the day without falling off the bandwagon

Insight, 19 November 2015

A toilet block in Mumbai, India, where people living in different informal settlements experience distinct forms of inadequate sanitation (Photo: Renu Desai)

Sanitation in informal settlements: a networked problem

Insight, 26 August 2015

Ongoing monitoring of communal toilets has helped to improve design: here, smaller toilets for children are included in adult toilet blocks. Previously children's facilities were in separate buildings and were frequently left uncleaned (Photo: SPARC)

How India's slum and pavement dwellers made sanitation affordable

Insight, 05 April 2015

The lives of Vasanthi and Gopal have been transformed by the low-cost toilet provided as part of the Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project (Photo: Asian Development Bank, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Why sanitation, spearhead of urban improvement in the 19th century, has become the laggard of the 21st

Insight, 04 March 2015

A community sanitation facility in Jinja, Uganda (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)

World Toilet Day: People need equality and dignity when they 'have to go'

Insight, 18 November 2014

An ecosan toilet in Mtandire settlement (Photo: Slum/Shack Dwellers International)

Achieving universal sanitation: Sharing the experience of the SDI affiliate in Blantyre, Malawi

Insight, 27 October 2014

Prolonged flooding in Vietnam in 2011 left thousands homeless and exposed to health risks. The research projects will focus on building resilience to climate change (Photo: EU/ECHO)

Ten projects receive funding for research into climate change resilience

News, 03 October 2014

A tanker delivers water to residents in Retiro, a shanty town in Buenos Aires (Photo: Mark Edwards)

Urban water and sanitation

Active Project

Street in Karachi, Pakistan with overflowing sewage.

The real issue is universal access to affordable basic services

Insight, 14 August 2012

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