International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)’s Post

Around one in three of the world’s urban population live in #InformalSettlements, comprising of poor quality and overcrowded homes which lack good quality infrastructure and services. 🏘 Campaign For ROOH started from conversations between women leaders from SDI. (Slum Dwellers International) during lockdown. The campaign wanted to change how issues get raised by women in informal communities and to create long-term transformation through community empowerment, incremental upgrading, retrofitting and peer learning. Women leaders from SDI are at the heart and centre of #ROOH. They worked together to provide realistic solutions to address the challenges that people in informal settlements experience with #ClimateChange. But how could this be achieved? Read more in this new #blog by Sheela Patel 👇 https://lnkd.in/eKj7pTEa Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centers (SPARC) Global Resilience Partnership Arup International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD)

  • Washing block set up by the community of an informal settlement with clothes hanging up to dry outside it.

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