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🌿 Today marks a year since we lost Dr. Saleemul Huq, a true climate warrior and mentor. His dedication to climate justice and the most vulnerable communities continues to inspire us. His legacy lives on in our work and hearts. Rest in peace, Dr. Huq. 🌍💚 #RememberingSaleemulHuq

Avoiding camps for refugees and internally displaced Latest issue of Environment .and Urbanization on forced displacement and the city. 11 papers discussing how displaced people experience urban protracted displacement and how they respond in Beirut, Amman, Nairobi, the Biqa’

DAY1. Kicking off our knowledge-sharing journey, SHEF, the SDI Nigeria affiliate, arrived at the SDI Secretariat in Cape Town, eager to engage with the global SDI community and deepen our understanding of the organization.

🆕 2024 report of the The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change on health & climate change: records broken, action delayed. Experts call for trillions of dollars spent on fossil fuels to be redirected towards protecting people’s health, lives & livelihoods. hubs.li/Q02Wgmfs0 #LancetClimate24

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Why I hate queueing David Satterthwaite I hate queueing. For stealing my time and drawing on my income. Electronic queues have taken this to another level in their scale and scope. For the most part, I can avoid them. But low-income urban dwellers in south cannot. Necessities

Only 12% of disaster-related aid funding was spent on disaster risk reduction, prevention, and preparedness in 2021. Operationalising DRR in humanitarian and crisis settings is particularly challenging given each settings complex context. ➡️ ow.ly/8Noi50SpnBL

BLOG: Combining nature based urban programmes with the enthusiasm and creativity of children can transform inner-city wastelands into spaces they highly value - especially trees, parks, gardens and waterfronts, but they were largely excluded - especially girls.

In most nations, small towns have huge importance. For what is done (and what has to be done). At both local and local levels. for development globally (meeting SDGs, and climate agendas). Yet most discussion on these towns is on how to define them, Cecilia Tacoli reviews these

IIED-America Latina received one of four Local Adaptation Champions Awards from the Global Center on Adaptation for their work on Addressing Urban Heat in Buenos Aires: Community-Led Solutions in Barrio 20. llahub.gca.org/stories/01e690… This, our sister institution publishes Medio

Shirish Patel has died. Lovely man, delightful company and brilliant mind. see environmentandurbanization.org/book-6-metros-… also 3 papers in Environment and Urbanization journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117… journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11… journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117…

About Yves Cabannes who died. whether you agree or disagree with him, this is a wonderful, searching, original mind beloved of community organizations and local governments …networker extraordinaire …. some day we must celebrate his work. very few people know of his seminal

theguardian.com/environment/20… Trump and new heights of stupidity on climate change and many other issues.

Detailed new account of work of Zabbaleen in collecting and recycling waste in Cairo and the enormous environmental and employments benefits to residents and cash-strapped local governments africanarguments.org/2025/02/how-ca… Jaclynn Ashly , African Arguments

Long history of local funds set up to support locally driven development. Now far more of them and all integrating measures to address climate crisis. Here are 14 examples; local funds and community initiatives driving and supporting locally-led processes of transformation. To

esearch AssoIciate, IIED / Some suggestions: Applying a housing justice lens to policy, prioritising the social function of housing, integrating housing policy into broader poverty-reduction and climate adaptation strategies, and building solidarity with other social movements n

Kinshasa la poubelle (“Kinshasa the trash heap”) to “Kinshasa la belle” (“Kinshasa the beautiful”) In Kinshasa, 12 million people live in informal settlements. With little or no basic services (water, electricity, waste management). Many on sites at high risk. Most with incomes

DEC member charities are already on the ground in affected communities in Myanmar and are working hard to access remote areas. They urgently need more funds to scale up their work and reach the most vulnerable. Please give now.

110 blogs on urban issues From 2020 All open access A series of case studies and interviews to share the experiences of politicians/civil servants, grassroots organizations and their federations, NGOs/civil society, researchers/academics and international agencies BLOG

NEW ISSUE: 'Urban reform coalitions' on the processes through which coalitions negotiate a common understanding of the policies, programmes & practices of a more inclusive and prosperous urban future Read --> bit.ly/3Esb0DE