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.

Urban health equity

Multifaceted partnerships to promote the social, environmental and political determinants of urban health More in this collection

Closely built shacks. In the background, trees. In the foreground, a river and, on the other side of it, smoke.
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A busy African street scene, with industrial buildings in the background.
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A woman sitting on steps, with colourful handkerchiefs arranged in front of her
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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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People sitting on round tables facing a panel and a whiteboard behind them.
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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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People looking at a map
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Mathare
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