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A builder labours in the sun in India. Outdoor workers lose weeks of work every year due to extreme heat

Extreme heat costing Indian workers billions in lost wages

Press release, 20 July 2026

Older man standing in a middle of a busy street in Dhaka, looking straight at the camera. He is wearing a grey t-shirt and a red scarf on his head, and holding his motorcycle.

Too hot to work, too poor to rest

Event on 20 July 2026

A group of five women look at mobile phone the middle woman is holding out in front of her.

How rural communities are rewriting the story of AI

Long read, 17 February 2026

Group of community members gathered and sitting on the group, while one person is standing at the front, talking.

Living heritage approach leads to owner-driven, post-earthquake reconstruction in Gujarat, India

Insight, 02 February 2026

A horizon photo of a city, showing slums in the foreground conflicting with skyscrapers behind in the distance.

Urban living labs for resilience: scaling impact through the SECURe framework

Active Project

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Strengthening urban resilience in informal settlements: the SECURe framework in practice

Publication, 23 June 2025

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Making crop insurance work for small-scale farmers: a review of recent evidence

Publication, 03 April 2025

Image showing the fishing community slum of Sai Baba Sahi after the construction, with a main street paved with stones, houses and shops.

It takes two (for a disaster) to tango

Insight, 13 December 2024

Bales of ginned cotton

Research shows gap in climate protections for India's small-scale cotton farmers

Press release, 30 September 2024

Truck piled up high with cotton in India

Improving cotton farmers’ resilience to climate change in India

Active Project

Washing blocks in informal settlements with clothes hang to dry outside.

Global campaign for a ‘Roof Over Our Heads’

Insight, 14 August 2024

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Building resilience for cotton farmers in India: evidence from Gujarat and Maharashtra

Publication, 30 September 2024

Cotton farmers in a field.

Building climate resilience for India’s cotton farmers: insurance's role?

Event on 27 June 2024

Two people stand in an outside area, surrounded by seated youngsters in a semi-circle.

Neighbourhoods fit for diverse young people: civic media practices and urban claims-making in Nepal and India

Active Project

Woman walks next to sugar cane fields, carrying pots of water on her head.

Climate change link to hysterectomy crisis among Indian sugar workers

Press release, 07 March 2024

Collage of 3 photos of women farmers accessing the CRISP-M tool

India scales up climate resilience tools

Impact story, 22 February 2024

Man walking through a paddy field, carrying a bucket.

Boosting mental health support for Indian farmers

Impact story, 22 February 2024

A diverse crowd of individuals congregated in a park, engaging in various activities.

Abandoned no more: Mumbai's new park on previously disused land

Insight, 18 December 2023

Map with overlaid photos

COVID Relief Archive for Lessons on urban Social Protection (CORALS)

Article

A line of people wearing masks, spaced apart, wait for a man dressed in full protective clothing pointing a temperature gun to test for COVID-19.

How far can non-state relief reach?

Article

A group of people sit around a table talking animatedly.

The Rajasthan Mahila Kaamgar Union: providing relief during COVID-19

Article

People put out washing on a line on top of a house

Rent as social protection: thinking through housing insecurities experienced by domestic workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

Article

Informal housing block with children playing in front

Precarities of informal rental housing during the pandemic: interview with a domestic workers’ union in India

Article

A man sits before a book case being interviewed. The words "I think things happened quickly at that point" appear as a subtitle.

The Delhi Coordinated Relief network: lessons from COVID-19

Article

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