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Two new urban health projects to begin
IIED and partners are assessing the occupational, environmental and public health risks faced by workers in the informal economy. This project will explore responses to these risks with workers in India and Zimbabwe, while also helping to build their resilience to climate change. We will partner with the Training and Research Support Centre (TARSC), a non-profit organisation in Zimbabwe that conducts action-research and capacity-building activities on public health. In India, we are working with the Urban Health Resource Centre (UHRC), a non-profit organisation that works closely with residents of informal settlements to promote health and nutrition.
Our second project analyses urban refugees’ health vulnerabilities, health-seeking practices, barriers to care, and access to water, sanitation, and other vital infrastructure. We will be working with the Africa Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC) in Nairobi, and Young African Refugees for Integral Development (YARID) in Kampala.
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Remembering Jockin Arputham
It is with great sadness that we learnt of the death of Jockin Arputham. He more than anyone has fought for the rights of ‘slum’/shack dwellers – going back to the early 1970s as he tried to stop the bulldozing of the settlement in which he lived. More on his influential work can be found in our Environment & Urbanization paper.
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New flyer: Cities that work for people and the planet
IIED has worked on urban environmental and poverty issues since the 1970s, aiming to support more equitable and sustainable development in urban centres in low- and middle-income countries. Find out more about our work in a new flyer.
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Climate change, health and well-being for cities and informal settlements
On 9 July 2018, IIED hosted interdisciplinary urban health researchers from UCL, Imperial College, University of Warwick, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) to discuss ongoing projects and opportunities to collaborate. They were joined by Dr Siddharth Agarwal, director of the Urban Health Resource Centre (UHRC), which partners closely with residents of Indian informal settlements to improve health and enhance local governance.
That meeting was followed by a public event with Dr Agarwal, David Satterthwaite (IIED), and Sari Kovats (LSHTM) on ‘Climate change, health and well-being for cities and informal settlements.’ A recording of the event is available (.mp3 file).
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Urban Africa: Risk Knowledge
Urban Africa: Risk Knowledge (Urban-ARK) is a research and capacity-building programme seeking to understand the full spectrum of risks facing urban Africans, including everyday, small, and large disasters. Led by researchers at King’s College London and other academic, civil society, and grassroots partners in nine African cities, Urban-ARK has aimed to reduce disaster risks in African cities by breaking cycles of risk accumulation.This 3-year programme (funded by DFID and ESRC) has produced a range of publications.
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Know Your City
IIED's Sarah Colenbrander, David Satterthwaite and Diana Mitlin contributed to SDI's publication, Know Your City: Slum Dwellers Count (pdf) prepared for the World Urban Forum 2018. This document profiles the work of SDI federations in data collection, demonstrating how community-led data is changing our understanding of urban poverty and inequality, and showing how data can build new relations with the formal world to secure “slum-friendly” cities.
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