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World Urban Forum (WUF)

20 entries

Image of the flame towers in downtown Baku, Azerbaijan.

IIED at WUF13

Event on 17 May 2026

A corridor in Kisenyi, with a semi-permanent hostel and a permanent structure.

Driving change for Kampala’s urban refugee population

Insight, 31 October 2024

Image of the Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro.

IIED at WUF12

Event on 04 November 2024

An illustration showing people and flowers in front of tall buildings.

Building better cities: responding to the twin challenge of inequality and climate change

Article, 23 June 2022

Water pours from two pipes set into stone, surrounded by photos, alongside a pile of clothes.

Embracing disruptive resilience

Article, 23 June 2022

People building informal houses on stilts behind rising water.

IIED at WUF11

Event on 26 June 2022

Preview of 10541IIED

A decade of change: shelter finance at the World Urban Forum

Publication, 01 June 2006

Preview of 17740IIED

Narrowing the data gap to the achieve the New Urban Agenda

Publication, 01 February 2020

A vegetable seller with a food truck peels a cucumber

Urban poor community voices take to the stage at the World Urban Forum

Insight, 19 February 2020

A road full of congested traffic.

IIED and partner events at the World Urban Forum (WUF10)

Event on 08 February 2020

A cityscape

IIED podcast explores opportunities for urban change

News, 04 February 2020

Three people sat around a table speaking into microphones

Seizing opportunities for urban change: Make Change Happen podcast episode 3

Article, 04 February 2020

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 9th session of the World Urban Forum, the world's premier conference on urban issues, took place in Malaysia in February. Like many international events, there were questions about how it addressed gender (Photo: National Housing Development Authority, via Google licence)

Moving past the token 'woman' word

Insight, 07 March 2018

More than 80 representatives of slum-dwellers federations attended the 9th World Urban Forum in Kuala Lumpur (Photo: United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), Creative Commons via Flickr)

Q&A: the World Urban Forum brought together governments and grassroots – what next?

Article, 14 February 2018

Women in developing countries are particularly vulnerable, but are their voices sufficiently heard at major international events? (Photo: Victoria Hickman)

New IIED discussion series focuses on gender at international events

News, 31 January 2018

IIED Senior Researcher David Dodman presents his report to the World Urban Forum

Presenting the case for environment and urban integration

News, 11 April 2014

Cebu, Phillipines

6th World Urban Forum: will the agenda of slum and shack dwellers ever get considered?

Insight, 07 September 2012

City without limits: keeping pace with the urban poor

Article, 18 November 2008

World Urban Forum 2008

Event on 17 June 2026

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