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3 October 2024
Podcast: The 24-hour Risk City – Lessons from Nairobi and Karachi
Extreme heat, altered rain patterns, and flooding events, amplified by climate change, are changing the nature of 24-hour risk cycles...
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29 August 2024
Just and Resilient Infrastructures in Pakistan and Kenya
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The relationship between infrastructure development and intensifying climate crisis is generating new cycles of 24-hour risks in the urban global South. Research from Karachi and Nairobi points to opportunities to build resilient infrastructures that strengthen and support community networks and inclusion.
Working Paper
29 August 2024
The 24-Hour Risk City: A Framework for Thinking About Building Infrastructures of Climate Repair in Nairobi and Karachi
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Extreme heat, altered precipitation patterns, and flooding events, exacerbated by climate change, are changing the nature of 24-hour risk cycles faced by low-income neighbourhoods and informal settlements in the urban global South.
Report
24 June 2024
CLARISSA Cash Plus Social Protection Intervention: An Evaluation
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper presents the results of the multi-method evaluation of the CLARISSA Cash Plus pilot, which was an innovative social protection scheme for tackling social ills, including the worst forms of child labour.
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The Urban Futures project: Toward health equity, inclusive governance, and climate adaptation in African informal settlements
We will work with informal settlement residents in Sub-Saharan African cities to understand the lived realities of climate change and...
Project
Building Infrastructures of Climate Repair in the 24-Hour Risk City: Learning from Karachi and Nairobi
This project juxtaposes the notion of the 'good city' and the classical idea of the topos of the good life in tension with the concept...
Opinion
11 December 2020
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HEART (Health and Education Advice and Resource Team)
HEART is a consortium of leading organisations in international development, health, nutrition, education, social protection and WASH.
Project
China as the new ‘shaper’ of global development
The pace and significance of China's rise has implications for both traditional and emerging powers, as well as for developing countries. This plays a role for energy and climate change and for many other development issues. Rising Powers Network is a new network that will place China as the new 'shaper' of global development under the ESRC's Rising Power's Programme.