Urban

With a focus on urban poverty, climate change in cities and rural-urban linkages, we work with partners to promote equitable, inclusive, sustainable and resilient urban development.

Urbanisation and rural-urban linkages

Projects and articles about urbanisation and the links between rural and urban areas

Myanmar is undergoing rapid economic change and urbanisation. Many new settlements like this one in Lashio lack basic services (Photo: Alex Drainville)
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Ejura Market in Ghana is an important centre for farmers selling their yam crops (Photo: IITA)
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Informal food vendors in Mathare, Nairobi. Understanding food consumption and how food systems work is essential to support food security (Photo: Cecilia Tacoli/IIED)
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Cities and climate change

How IIED is working to understand and reduce climate change vulnerability in urban areas.

Niamey, the capital of Niger, is growing rapidly. Urban ARK is exploring the varied vulnerabilities of boys and girls from conflict-displaced and host communities (Photo: Jean Rebiffé, Creative Commons via Flickr)
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Makeshift camps for internally displaced people sprang up in Kathmandu after the severe earthquake in Nepal in April 2015. Relief workers are struggling to help displaced people find durable shelter as the country braces for the monsoon season (Photo: SIM Central and South East Asia, Creative Commons via Flickr)
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Semarang, Indonesia: One of the ten initial cities in the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network, Semarang has been a pioneer in integrating climate change resilience into city planning and management. (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
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Urban poverty

How IIED is working to reduce urban poverty and to change misleading views about urbanisation

About the architecture of aid
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Langrug informal settlement, South Africa, May 2014 (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
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A tanker delivers water to residents in Retiro, a shanty town in Buenos Aires (Photo: Mark Edwards)
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