Getting to scale in urban sanitation
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This briefing offers lessons for scale-up deriving from Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor's 2008-2012 programme in Maputo (Mozambique) and Antananarivo (Madagascar).
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Urban resident, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
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Credit: British Red Cross Society
Source: British Red Cross SocietyLearning from the city: humanitarian action in urban areas
With rapid urbanisation taking place on a global scale, urban areas are increasingly affected by humanitarian emergencies. Amid the growing recognition of the need to address the operational implications of urban risk and vulnerability in the humanitarian sector, this event will launch the British Red Cross’ recent study on humanitarian action in urban areas: Learning from the city. -
A view of Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza
A view of Jabalia refugee camp. Jabalia is the largest of the Gaza Strip's eight refugee camps. It is located north of Gaza City, close to a village of the same name
License: Creative Commons
Credit: Suhair Karam/IRIN
Source: IRINGaza calling: conflict and displacement in the Gaza Strip
This event is scheduled to launch Sanctuary in the city? Urban displacement and vulnerability in the Gaza Strip, a look at internal displacement over the past ten years in Gaza. With a live video link to Gaza, this event will bring together Palestinian and international speakers to explore the multi-faceted effects of the conflict on civilians, and up to date assessment of how displaced populations have fared since the Pillar of Defence military operation in November 2012.
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Labour mobility in east Africa: an analysis of the East African Community's Common Market and the free movement of workers
Development Policy Review Volume 31, Issue Number 2This article advocates an institutional perspective in analysing labour mobility, since rules governing cross-border labour markets are an embodiment of access and participation rights, and can determine the formalisation or informalisation of work and the protection and benefits accrued by migrant workers. It examines the East African Community's Common Market Protocol of July 2010, which seeks to promote the ‘free movement of workers’ within the Community. It argues that there are contradictions and inconsistencies in implementing the Protocol and provides recommendations for addressing them. -
Evaluation of WSUP's capacity development interventions in Antananarivo and Maputo
This project will provide an evaluation of the impact of Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor's (WSUP) capacity development interventions in Antananarivo and Maputo. -
Sanctuary in the city? Urban displacement and vulnerability in Nairobi
Victoria Metcalfe and Sara Pavanello, with Prafulla MishraThis Working Paper focuses on internally displaced people (IDPs) in Nairobi, and aims to understand the challenges they face and how these compare with the general urban poor population in the capital. -
Lifting women out of poverty
Community members in a local slum participate in discussions after watching video documentaries screened by the Self Employed Women's Association of India. (Gujarat, India, 2010)
License: Creative Commons
Credit: Gates Foundation
Source: FlickrDevelopment Progress - exploring what works and why
ODI's Development Progress aims to measure, understand and communicate where and how progress in development has happened. What are the latest methods we deploy to measure progress and why do they matter? What are the social, economic and political contexts that have facilitated and enabled progress in different countries? How do domestic and foreign resources contribute to financing progress? Building on phase one of this research - Development Progress: a library of stories - this four-year project explores these and other questions, with an aim to provide evidence for what’s worked and why over the past two decades. -
Pipes and people: Progress in water supply in Burkina Faso's cities
Part of the Development Progress Stories series, this research focuses on progress in Burkina Faso's urban water supply. -
China’s new Five-Year Plan: what are the implications for global development?
Linda Yueh, Fellow in Economics and Director, China Growth Centre (CGC), St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, and Economics Correspondent for Bloomberg TVAfter 30 years of truly remarkable economic development, with 400 million people lifted out of abject poverty, China believes that it is in a position to fundamentally adjust the strategies with which it has generated such substantial economic achievements.
