Informal settlements

For real, lasting climate adaptation and to avoid maladaptation, there is a need to complement top-down with bottom-up approach to climate adaptation-one that includes and empowers the communities most at risk as equal partners.

This report examines the role of community-led climate adaptation in enhancing the inclusiveness, resilience, and sustainability of cities, focusing on rapidly growing informal settlements.

This report explores the critical shifts in governance, policy and action that are needed to address the growing challenges, exacerbated by climate change, that are faced by informal settlement residents.

Jutin, a material made from jute, can be used to build sturdy yet lightweight structures that stay cooler during summer heat.

In the shadow of the Nairobi skyline, the sprawling, informal settlement of Mathare is struggling to recover from the devastating floods.

As the global climate crisis intensifies, vulnerable communities are facing extreme heat events that disproportionately affect women, especially in informal settlements.

This report provides an overview of Action Against Covid-19 Transmission in Nairobi (ACT Nairobi), a community-based, participatory public health project in an informal settlement of the city.

The researchers used a case study research design for the inquiry intended to recommend adaptive capacity and reduce disaster risks in informal settlements in the eMalahleni Local Municipality (eLM) in Mpumalanga province, South Africa.

This study was aimed at assessing households’ flood vulnerability (HFV) in rural and urban informal areas of Malawi, using case studies of Traditional Authority (T/A) Kilupula of Karonga District (KD) and Mtandire Ward in Lilongwe City (LC).

This policy brief gives seven key recommendations to ensure that inhabitants of informal urban settlements will benefit from the Loss and Damage Fund and other Funding Arrangements provided to them.