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Dear colleagues,
Welcome to our new format newsletter, we hope this is more useful for you, happy to receive feedback on whether you like it or not. Here you will find links to our work from the last two months, most of our publications are available to download freely. Print copies of publications will continue to be sent where requested. Feel free to get in touch if you would like to stop or start receiving copies.
Hannah Bywaters – Human Settlements Group
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Nourishing livelihoods:
recognising and supporting food vendors in Nairobi’s informal settlements
by Grace Githiri, Regina Ngugi, Patrick Njoroge and Alice Sverdlik
A gender-sensitive analysis of how food vending intersects with environmental hazards, insecurity, and governmental neglect in Nairobi’s informal settlements.
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Popular participation in the city: 20 years of decentralisation in Cochabamba’s barrios
by María Eugenia Torrico and Anna Walnycki
A look at how popular participation has been deployed unequally across low-income, peri-urban settlements in the southern zone of Cochabamba.
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Decentralisation in West Africa:
the implications for urban climate change governance
by Loan Diep, Diane Archer and Cheikh Gueye
This paper examines the linkages between decentralisation and urban climate governance through a literature review, supported by two city case studies: Saint-Louis in Senegal and Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina Faso.
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Spotlight on Inclusive Urbanisation
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IIED hosted a workshop titled “From Urban Exclusion to Inclusive Urbanisation” in October 2015 together with UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, and the Institute for Development Studies (IDS). The summary of discussions is available online, as is the journal article that provided a basis for discussions. Read more about our work on this in Gordon McGranahan's latest blog, asking Is more inclusive urbanisation essential to the 2030 Agenda?
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As discussions on the SDG indicators are under way in New York, David Satterthwaite asks where are the indicators that report on local needs and support local action in urban areas.
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Jockin Arputham, the founder of the National Slum Dwellers Federation in India, explains the benefits of developing a slum-dweller led strategy for securing land tenure and services.
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Guest blogger John Taylor reports back from Indonesia's third Urban Social Forum, where citizens came together to imagine the kind of cities they want to live in.
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Alice Sverdlik writes about how selling food in Nairobi's informal settlements can provide cheap meals and create vital livelihoods, especially for women, but these providers are usually ignored and remain invisible.
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This blog is drawn from an interview David Satterthwaite conducted with John Taylor, author of "A tale of two cities: comparing alternative approaches to reducing the vulnerability of riverbank communities in two Indonesian cities". The paper is from the October 2015 issue of Environment and Urbanization.
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Events
Please join us for the 10th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to climate change (CBA10). 22-28 April 2016, Dhaka, Bangladesh
The conference celebrates its 10th anniversary this year and the theme will be 'Enhancing urban community resilience'.
For more information visit: www.IIED.org/CBA10
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