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Kenya

Building Forward Better: Inclusive Livelihood Support in Nairobi’s Informal Settlements

For the large population living in Nairobi’s informal settlements, the long-term effects of COVID-19 pose a threat to livelihood, health, and wellbeing. For those working in the informal sector, who are the lifeblood of the city, livelihoods have been severely supressed by COVID-19 restrictions such as curfews, pushing many into further poverty. This article draws […]

Sierra Leone

Covid-19 Response and Protracted Exclusion of Informal Settlement Residents in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Freetown has over 1 million residents, many of whom live in about 68 crowded informal settlements. Residents of these settlements struggle daily to access basic services such as water, sanitation, and health-care services. We found that the government’s COVID-19 response measures (curfews, lockdowns, and travel restrictions) excluded informal residents from contributing to its design, and […]

India, Kenya

Strengthening networks and building alliances to improve health and accountability in informal urban spaces

One in three urban dwellers now live in precarious, marginalised areas, including informal spaces; this is an estimated 881 million people in low- and middle-income countries. People living and working in informal urban spaces face interconnected challenges, including multiple intersecting health risks and vulnerabilities, and complex, fluid governance arrangements, involving a mix of actors, with […]

Strengthening networks and alliances Story of Change

India, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Bangladesh

Improving safeguarding in the ARISE Hub and beyond

Much of the current discussion on safeguarding comes from the perspective of the humanitarian sector, and direct service provision and implementation. Additionally, researchers working in global health also experience safeguarding challenges, and research funders and donors require assurance that safeguarding processes and policies are developed and implemented to protect participants and researchers, yet governance in […]

Improving safeguarding in ARISE Story of Change

Sierra Leone, Bangladesh

ARISE co-researchers: Working collaboratively to build capacity

One of our core strategies to affect change is to support capacity strengthening of urban marginalised co-researchers to generate, collect, and use evidence as new localised knowledge to instigate change. Strengthening capabilities of urban marginalised people to engage with research processes is central to the principles of CBPR and meaningful participation of marginalised communities. ARISE […]

Sierra Leone

Exploring gender, health, and intersectionality in informal settlements in Freetown

This paper applies an intersectional lens to health in informal urban settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone. We explored how intersecting social characteristics including gender, age, wealth, occupation, and tenant status influence health and well-being outcomes. We found that hazardous environmental conditions, poor waste disposal, and waste burning contribute to health problems at a neighbourhood level. […]

Chronic conditions and COVID-19 in informal urban settlements

COVID-19 has forced a reckoning about how we live, and in particular how exposure to disease risks are unevenly distributed. This contribution explores connections between the COVID-19 pandemic, chronic disease and conditions of chronic crisis among the urban poor. We suggest two issues in urgent need of attention in the long and short term are: […]

Chronic conditions and COVID 19 in infomal settlements

India

Rolling back the induced livelihood shock

Sumit Mazumdar and Indranil, The Hindu, 7 July 2020 For most regions across the country, the long lockdown has just got over. As the “unlocking” begins, it is becoming increasingly apparent how the Indian state had chosen its sides and revealed its elitist bias during one of the most stringently enforced lockdowns worldwide. Several news […]

Indian workers walking to find an alternative livelihood

Webinar: ‘Preventing Harm in Research’

This is a recording of a live event that took place on the 1 July 2020 and was organised by UKCDR. This webinar was targeted at the international development research community. It aimed to raise awareness of the new guidance on safeguarding, increase understanding of the definition of safeguarding in the context of international development research […]

Sierra Leone

Urban Health: From Local Community Action to a Healthy Freetown

This Practitioner Brief has been produced based on the discussions and agreements that took place during the City Learning Platform (CiLP) meeting in February 2020. The meeting was hosted and coordinated by the Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre (SLURC), who also reported on the agreements. Health is intertwined with living conditions in the city. Determinants […]

Building Forward Better: Inclusive Livelihood Support in Nairobi’s Informal Settlements

Covid-19 Response and Protracted Exclusion of Informal Settlement Residents in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Strengthening networks and building alliances to improve health and accountability in informal urban spaces

Improving safeguarding in the ARISE Hub and beyond

ARISE co-researchers: Working collaboratively to build capacity

Exploring gender, health, and intersectionality in informal settlements in Freetown

Chronic conditions and COVID-19 in informal urban settlements

Rolling back the induced livelihood shock

Webinar: ‘Preventing Harm in Research’

Urban Health: From Local Community Action to a Healthy Freetown

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Capacities (competencies and conditions)