Urban

Cities that work for people and planet: we focus on urban poverty and urban environmental issues, including rural-urban linkages, urban risk and urban crises, health, water and sanitation, inclusion, gender and disability, and shelter and basic services. We work with in-country partners to promote equitable, inclusive, sustainable and resilient urban development.

Housing justice

Producing knowledge and methodologies for housing policy and programmes that promote wellbeing and sustainability in cities of the global South More in this collection

A house on stilts above a body of water.
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Table with coloured papers and someone writing on a notebook
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View over the Mukuru informal settlement in Nairobi, showing corrugated roofs
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Urban crises and forced displacement

How IIED is bringing together diverse perspectives on humanitarian emergencies and forced displacement, to inform new directions in urban crisis response More in this collection

A number of informal tents forming a village
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A woman sitting on steps, with colourful handkerchiefs arranged in front of her
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People looking at a map
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Urban poverty

How IIED is working to reduce urban poverty and to change misleading views about urbanisation. More in this collection

Langrug informal settlement, South Africa, May 2014 (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
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Aerial view of Villa 20, Buenos Aires
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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)
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