Developing Prosperous and Inclusive Cities in Africa - National Urban Policies to the Rescue?
Reforming Urban Laws in Africa: A Practical Guide
Overcoming the Disjunctures: Competing Discourses on Informal Settlements in South Africa 
Informality and Urban Planning in Africa 
National Survey of Ebola-Related Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Before the Outbreak Peak in Sierra Leone : August 2014
Communal Approach to Cost Effective Agricultural Land Development in Sierra Leone 
Seasonal Variation and the Effect of Particulate Air Pollution in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone 2015 Population and Housing Census – Thematic Report on Population Projection
Sierra Leone 2015 Population and Housing Census – Thematic Report on Population Structure and Population Distribution
Sierra Leone 2015 Population and Housing Census – Thematic Report on Housing Condition 
Sierra Leone 2015 Population and Housing Census – Thematic Report on Urbanization and Migration 
Exploring the Role of Empowerment in Urban Humanitarian Responses in Freetown 
Who Engages in Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture in the Condensed Urban Slums of Bangladesh 
Sierra Leone Rapid Damage and Loss Assessment of the August 14th Landslides and Floods in Western Area
What the experiences of South Africa's Mass Housing programme teaches us
Habitat III National Report - Government of Sierra Leone
Urbanization in Africa: Challenges and opportunities for conservation
Slum Mapping Report for Congo Town, Kroo Bay, Susan's Bay and Mabella in Freetown 
Planning and the Case study Method in Africa 

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​Urban Planning Education and Applied Research in Sub-Saharan Africa
What the experiences of South Africa's Mass Housing programme teaches us
Fishing Na Everybody Business
Habitat III National Report - Government of Sierra Leone
Urbanization in Africa: challenges and opportunities for conservation
Seeing a disaster as an opportunity - harnessing the energy of disaster survivors for change
Transitioning Towards Green Growth Stocktaking and the Way Forward
Housing equity for health equity
Talking gender to Africa
Whatever happened to Africa's Rapid Urbanisation?
For Town and Country A New approach to Urban Planning in Kenya
How to make planning law work for Africa
Who really governs Urban Ghana?
The Book lovers, the Mayors and the Citizens:  Participatory budgeting in Yaounde Cameroon
Who will plan Africa's Cities?
Whose Land is it anyway? The failure of land law reform in Kenya
Old Tricks, Young Guns: Elections and Violence in Sierra Leone
Duty of Care Constitutional and law reform, in Malawi
Modern African Remedies  Herbal Medicine and community development in Nigeria
Talking Gender to Africa
How Property tax would benefit Africa
Gender and Urban Agriculture: A Case Study of Three Communities in Greater Freetown, Sierra Leone
Healthy cities or unhealthy islands? The health and social implications of urban inequality
Tomorrow's crises today: the humanitarian impact of urbanisation
Ebola Emergency Response Evaluation and Learning Summary
Community groups and non-governmental organizations in the urban field in Pakistan
DPU News Reflections on diversity,social complexity and planned intervention
An appraisal of environmental consequences of urban development in Alexandria, Egypt
Our planet, our health
Health inequalities in urban areas: a guide to the literature
Climate change and coastal cities: the case of Mombasa, Kenya
Guide to City Development Strategies Improving Urban Performance
Lessons Learned on Urban Upgrading
Malawi Community Planning Studios: Urban Planning Education and Applied Research in Sub-Saharan Africa
Concern  Disaster Risk Reduction -  Urban Context
Evolution of Town Planning Ideas, Plans and their Implementation in Kampala City 1903-2004
Urban Segregation and  Urban Form: From residential segregation to segregation in public space
Facilitating War-Affected Young Mothers Reintegration: Lessons from a Participatory Action Research Study in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Uganda
Cities Alliance for Cities Without Slums Action Plan for Moving Slum Upgrading to Scale
The national and local politics of climate change adaptation in Zimbabwe
Environmental and Health Impact of Solid Waste Disposal in Developing Cities
Building better cities with children and youth
Urban agriculture in the metropolitan zone of Mexico City: changes over time in urban, suburban and peri-urban areas
Street children in Egypt: from the home to the street to inappropriate corrective institutions
Women vendors' work histories in Port-au-Prince: what lessons can be learned for research and action?
Taking advantage of rural assets as a coping strategy for the urban poor: the case of rural-urban interrelations in Botswana
Interlocking livelihoods: farm and small town in Zimbabwe
Praja Sahayaka Sewaya (Community Assistance Service)
Making sense of urban poverty
Waste picking as a survival strategy for women in Indian cities
Conditions for healthy cities: diversity, game boards and social entrepreneurs
Voluntary organizations in Bangladesh: a profile
Hawking as a survival strategy for the urban poor in Nairobi: the case of women
Street children, hotel boys and children of pavement dwellers and construction workers in Bombay - how they meet their daily needs
Children's play- a forgotten right
Community organization in Asia
Health and peri-urban natural resource production
Urbanization and caregiving: a framework for analysis and examples from southern and eastern Africa
Urban inequalities in mental health: the case of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Intra-urban health differentials in London urban health indicators and policy implications
Setting a new agenda: sexual and reproductive health and rights
UNICEF's urban basic services programme in illegal settlement in Guatemala city
Respiratory diseases of mothers and children and environmental factors among households in Jakarta
The impact on health of urban environment
The impact of adult ill-health on household income and nutrition in khulna, Bangladesh
Urban health in the third world: A guide to the literature
Meeting women's needs and priorities for water and sanitation in cities
A public health approach to the violence epidemic in the United States
Street child and aids: Is postponement of sexual involvment a realistic alternative to the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases
Gender in two slum cultures
Implementing a new approach to urban health problems: the case of Addis Ababa
Habitat and health in the municipality of Sao Paulo
Planning for child health in a poor urban environment- the case of Jakarta, Indonesia
Child health in the spontaneous settlements around khartoum
Local action plans for sustainable communities
Why mobilize town dwellers?- joint management in ouagadougou (1983-1990)
BRAC 2014 Slum Mapping Report for Congo Town, Kroo Bay, Susan's Bay and Mabella in Freetown
Institutional responses to uncontrolled urban cultivation in Harare: prohibitive or accomodative
Katchi abadis: living on the edge
Sustainable urban development strategies for China
The decline of urban management in South Africa
The way to sustainability for poor cities
Ecological footprints and appropriated carrying capacity: what urban economics leaves out
Environment management and urban development: issues and options for third world cities
Government-community partnership in kampung improvement programmes in surabaya
The political economy of urban poverty and environmental management in Asia: access, empowerment and community based alternatives
Recycling in Bogota: developing a culture for urban sustainability
Curitiba: towards sustainable urban development
Sustainable development in Argentina
The struggle to legitimize subsistence: women and sustainable development
Sustainable development: a Guide to the Literature
A sustainable planet?
Building community organization: the history of a squatter settlement and its own organizations in Buenos Aires
Financing regional and local government in Sudan
The employment of minors in Brazil
Building a community in Bungoma, Kenya
Mexico's urban popular movements
The environmental problems associated with urban development in Mexico city
Metropolitan Manila: a framework for its sustained development
Urban governance and disaster  risk reduction in the Caribbean:  the experiences of Oxfam GB
Addressing disaster risk reduction through community-rooted interventions in the Philippines: experience of the Homeless Peoples Federation of the Philippines
Constraints of pro-poor climate change adaptation in Chittagong city
Flood disaster vulnerability in informal settlements in Bursa, Turkey
Towards resilience and transformation for cities within a finite planet
The political underpinnings of  cities - accumulated resilience  to climate change
Shared learning for building urban climate resilience  experiences from Asian cities
Vulnerability to wind hazards in the traditional city of Ibadan, Nigeria
Exploring ecosystem-based  adaptation in Durban, South Africa: Learning-by-doing at the local government coal face
From theory to practice: building  more resilient communities in  flood-prone areas
Mainstreaming climate change adaptation in Indian cities
Prioritizing climate change adaptation and local level resilience in Durban, South Africa
Vulnerability of poor urban coastal communities to flooding in Lagos, Nigeria
Water in Mexico City: what will climate change bring to its history of  water-related hazards and vulnerabilities?
Crisis or adaptation? Migration and climate change in a context of high mobility
International funding to support urban adaptation to climate change
Thinking globally, acting locally - institutionalizing climate change at the local government level in Durban, South Africa
Climate change risk: an adaptation and mitigation agenda for Indian cities
Climate, climate change and human health in Asian cities
Unjust waters: climate change, Flooding and the urban poor in Africa
Developing a Municipal Adaptation Plan (MAP) for climate change: the city of Cape Town
Bridging the gaps: stakeholder-based strategies for risk reduction and nancing for the urban poor
Adapting to climate change: water management for urban resilience
Vulnerabilities and responses to climate change for Dhaka
The vulnerability to climate change of Cotonou (Benin): the rise in sea level
Cities contribution to global warming: notes on the allocation of greenhouse gas emissions
The vulnerability of global cities to climate hazards
Reducing risks to cities from disasters and climate change
Reducing risk as a tool for urban improvement: the Caqueta ravine, Lima, Peru
What determines vulnerability to floods; a case study in Georgetown, Guyana
From violence to justice and security in cities
Fighting violence against women: the experience of the Lihok-Pilipina Foundation in Cebu
The need for new approaches to disaster management; the 1989 floods in Lusaka, Zambia
Attributes of informal settlements affecting their vulnerability to eviction
Back to basics: A community-based environmental health project in westpoint, Monrovia, Liberia
Food for thought: making women visible
Landslides in the squatter settlements of Caracas: towards a better understanding of causative factors
Local government and decentralization in Colombia
Symtoms versus causes: observations and recommendations on UNICEF's urban child programme
The forgetten half -  environmental health in Nairobi's poverty areas
Urban Solid Waste Generation in Port Harcourt Metropolis and its Implications for Waste Manageme
Land tenure, food security and investment in postwar Sierra Leone
Spatial Data Analysis of Solid Waste Management System in Port Harcourt Metropolis after 100 years of its Existence
Forced Wives as Victims and Perpetrators of War Violence in Transitional Justice Processes
Affordable Housing in the Urban Global South: seeking sustainable solutions
Overview human development report
Moving Out of Poverty in the Freetown Slums
Rapid Needs Assessment and Freetown WASH consortium response update
Faecal Sludge Management in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Key sanitation issues: commitments, coverage, choice, context, co-production, costs, capital, city-wide coverage
Why is urban health so poor even in many successful cities?
Big emitters: how growth in  consumption drives climate change
Community-driven disaster intervention: Experiences of the Homeless Peoples Federation Philippines, Incorporated (HPFPI)
An untapped resource: community based epidemiologists for environmental health
Sanitation in a poor settlement in Bangladesh: a challenge for the 1990s
Urban development and Environment in Port Harcourt
A Situational Analysis of Waste Management in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Environmental management and urban development: issues and options for third world cities
Beyond the rural-urban divide
Problems in translating NGO successes into government settlement policy: illustrations from Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica
Participative budgeting in Belo Horizonte: democratization and citizenship
A systematic approach to urban environmental planning and management: project report from Thailand
Urban social policy and poverty reduction
District planning with community participation in Peru: the work of the institute of local democracy
Gender and the environment: the challenge of cross-cutting issues in development policy and planning
Local government and development
Municipal government and popular participation in Latin America
The role of municipal government in the protection of historic centres in Latin American Cities
Women in local government: towards a future South Africa
Participation: a case study of how invaders organize, negotiate and interact with government in Lima, Peru
The struggle for income (and shelter): a photoessay of a Mexican migrant family
The Big Issue and other street papers: a response to homelessnes
Low-income rental housing: are South African cities different?
The significance of relocation for chronically poor families in the USA
On popular participation in a culture of patronage; patrons and grassroots organization in a sites and services project in Hyderabad, Pakistan
Legitimizing informal housing: accommodating low-income groups in Alexandria, Egypt
The informal housing sector in the metropolis of Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Reaching the poor: lessons from the chilean housing experience
Rental and rent-free housing as coping mechanisms in La Paz, Bolivia
Access to land by the urban poor in Tanzania: some findings from Dar es Salaam
Whose common future: reclaiming the commons
Forced eviction as an increment of demographic manipulation
Evictions and fear of evictions in the philippines
Evictions in the new South Africa: a narrative report from Durban
Social engineering, occupying powers and evictions; the case of Lhasa, Tibet
Eviction trends worldwide - and the role of local authorities in implementing the right to housing
Housing consolidation and the urban poor: the case of Hagar El Nawateyah, Alexandria
The self-help production of housing and the the living environment in Dakar, Senegal
Women's work or household strategies
The changing role of women in families and their housing needs: a case study of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Rehousing the urban poor: looking at women first
Urban management in Kenya
Land invasion and grassroot organisation: the quilmes settlements in greater Buenos Aires, Argentina
Some low-income housing delivery subsystems in Bangkok, Thailand
How poorer groups find accommodation in Third world cities
The poor don't squat: the case of Thika, Kenya
Housing submarkets for the urban poor - the case of greater Khartoum
Many routes enter the marketplace: housing submarkets for the urban poor in metropolitan Lagos, Nigeria
Evictions in Seoul, South Korea
Old wine in new bottles? An overview of Africa's urban problems and the "urban management" approach to dealing with them
New perspectives on African urban management
Urban solid waste management in Bandung:towards an integrated resource recovery syste
Environmental information for and from children
The chipko Andolan:forest conservation based on people's power
Coming to terms with Bangkok's environmental problems
Aspect of the growth of Montevideo, Uruguay and its environment implications
The environmental problems associated with India's major cities
The risk of environmental degradation in Bogota, Colombia
Local governments in intermediate cities Colombia: municipal administration for whom?
Tijuca Lagoon -  evictions and human rights in Rio de Janeiro
Key Land Tenure Issues and Reform Processes for Sierra Leone
A socio-economic sustainability assessment of livelihoods from scrap metal collection in Freetown, Sierra Leone
The Improvement of Slums and Informal Settlements in Freetown
Water quality associated public health risk in Bo, Sierra Leone
Prevalence of diabetes in rural and urban populations in southern Sierra Leone: a preliminary survey
Urban Health Research in Africa: Themes and Priority Research Questions
Open City Lagos
Are we missing the point? Particularities of urbanization, sustainability and carbon emissions in Latin American cities
The political economy of the urban water-pricing regime in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Challenges for community-based adaptation: Discovering the potential for transformation
Institutional Capacity, Climate Change Adaptation and the Urban Poor
Exploitation of Poor Communities in Sierra Leone False Promises in Reconstruction and Development
At risk: Natural hazards, people's vulnerability and disaster
Global disaster risk: patterns, trends and drivers
The heart of the matter: the underlying risk drivers
Deconstructing disaster: risk patterns and poverty trends at the local level
Should we stay or should we go? Understanding household decision making in climate change-affected areas of Indonesia
Towards an urban agenda on climate-related loss and damage
Barriers and solutions to effective climate change adaptation in Indonesia
Responding to the perspectives of urban youth
City adaptation strategies Recognising livelihood struggles of migrant workers in India
Wheezing ecosystems, livelihood services and climate change resilience in Uttar Pradesh
Climate change, livelihoods and health inequities The vulnerability of migrant workers in Indian cities
Legitimising informal markets: a case study of the dairy sector in kenya
Can urban regeneration improve health resilience in a changing climate? Lessons from Indonesia
Climate and health in informal urban settlements
Environment & Urbanization: Sanitation and drainage in cities
Reconfiguring urban adaptation finance
Local planning for  climate adaptation: Vietnamese experience
How can climate change vulnerability assessments best impact policy and planning?
From community development to housing finance: from Mutiroes to Casa Melhor in Fortaleza, Brazil
Reconsidering approaches to women's land rights in Sub-Saharan Africa
A fair climate deal in Paris means adequate finance to deliver INDCs in LDCs
Humanitarian response to Urban crises a review of area- based approaches
Climate change, floods and homes: A social networks approach to understanding location preferences in Indonesia
Protect, adapt or relocate? Responding to climate change in  coastal Indonesia
Household economic losses of urban flooding
Modelling demand for catastrophic flood index-based insurance in Da Nang City, Vietnam
Perspectives of planners on adaptation to climate change in Indonesia
Heat stress at the workplace: building the adaptive capacity of outdoor workers
Urban adaptation planning: the use and limits of climate science
Towards pro-poor adaptation to climate change in the urban centres of low- and middle-income countrie
Impacts and implications for adaptation  in low- and middle-income countries
Adapting to Climate Change in Urban Areas
REDD+ and the private sector: tapping into domestic markets
Vulnerable communities: climate adaptation that works for the poor
Vulnerable communities: getting their needs and knowledge into climate policy
Decentralisation in West Africa the implications for urban climate change governance The cases of Saint Loius (Senegal) and Bobo Dioulasso (Burkinafaso)
Why is community action needed for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation?
Climate change and urban children: impacts and implications for adaptation in low- and middle income countries
Climate Change Risks and Resilience in Urban Children in Asia
Climate change, vulnerability and adaptive social protection: Innovation and practice among migrant workers in Indian cities
Coastal urban climate resilience planning in Quy Nhon, Vietnam
Climate change and migrant workers in India: From vulnerability to adaptation
It's raining, it's pouring: Urban children and climate change vulnerability in secondary cities in Asia
Flooding, homes and loss: insurance as a risk-transfer mechanism in Vietnam
Opportunities to address the emergent disaster risk landscape in urban India
Urban climate resilience, water and sanitation: Improving multi-stakeholder collaboration in Dhaka, Bangladesh
The impact of urban heat islands: Assessing vulnerability in Indonesia
Methodologies for  urban climate resilience: a review of ACCCRN approaches  in Indian cities
From research to policy: The role of researchers in shaping urban climate resilience
Strengthening resilience against disasters and climate change Sustainable energy in Quy Nhon City
Vulnerability profiling  of cities A framework for climate-resilient  urban development in India
A participatory approach to micro-resilience planning by community institutions The case of Mahewa ward in  Gorakhpur City
Understanding children's risk and agency in urban areas and their implications for child centred urban disaster risk reduction in Asia: Insights from Dhaka, Kathmandu, Manila and Jakarta
Understanding the nature and scale of urban risk in low and middle income countries and its implications for humanitarian preparedness, planning and response
Urban Climate Resilience:  A review of the methodologies adopted under the ACCCRN initiative in Indian cities
Cost benefit analysis of mangrove restoration in  Thi Nai Lagoon, Quy Nhon City, Vietnam
Heat stress and adaptive capacity of low-income outdoor workers and their families in the city of Da Nang, Vietnam
Community consultation for long-term climate-resilient housing in Vietnamese cities: a comparative case study between Hue and Da Nang
When non-climate urban policies contribute to building urban resilience to climate change: lessons learned from Indonesian cities
Building resilience: how the urban poor can drive climate adaptation
Against the tide: climate change and high-risk cities
Delivering climate and development finance to the poorest: intermediaries that no-one behind
Beyond loans instruments to ensure the poor access climate and development finance
Towards a Network of micro-credits for housing improvements in barrios in Agentina experiences by community promoters
Reducing risks to cities from climate change -  an environmental or a development agenda?
Environment, Wealth and health: towards ananalysis of intra-urbandifferentials within the greater Accra, Metropolitan Area, Ghana
Urban agriculture for sustainable cities: using waste and idle land and water bodies as resources
Marginal settlements in Surabaya, Indonesia: problem or potential
Deforestation: constructing problems and solutions on Sierra Leone's Freetown Peninsula
Financing the resilient city
Sierra Leone Integrated Transport Policy, Strategy and Investment Plan
Applied Study of Credit and Financing Opportunities for Farmers in Urban and Peri-urban Freetown
Towards a Pro-Poor "Agenda For Change": Opportunities and Experiences of Slum Policy and Practice in Sierra Leone
Know your city know your settlement
Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches in Urban Areas: General Lessons, with Illustrations from Indian Cases
Assessing Damage and Defining Reconstruction Policy: TO RELOCATE OR NOT TO RELOCATE
Built-in resilience: learning from grassroots coping strategies for climate variability
Urban poverty and vulnerability to climate change in Latin America
Editorial: Addressing poverty and inequality: New forms of Urban governance in Asia
Towards sustainable residential communities: the Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED) and beyond
Freetown City Council Housing Policy and Strategy
The Mahila Milan crisis credit scheme: from a seed to a tree
Sierra Leone 2014 Labor Force Survey Report
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Integrating Climate Change Considerations in Planning for Urban Development in Sierra Leone: The Case of Freetown
Coastal Erosion Issues in Sierra Leone Adaptation: planning and implementation relating To the Sierra Leone coastal zone
The Demography of Adaptation to Climate Change
Protection and Planned Relocations  in the Context of Climate Change
Well-being and citizenship in Urban Nigeria
Water Supply and Sanitation in Sierra Leone: Turning Finance into Services for 2015 and Beyond
Youth Volunteerism and Disaster risk reduction
A comparative analysis of urban agricultural enterprises in Lagos and Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Havanas self-provision gardens
Pathways out of Poverty: Women - the 'forgotten gender' - and the Artisanal Fisheries Sector of Sierra Leone
Testing a rapid climate change adaptation assessment for  water and sanitation providers  in informal settlements in  three cities in sub-Saharan Africa
Engineers and urban malaria: part of the solution, or part of the problem?
Crime, (counter-) insurgency and the privatization of security: the case of Medellin, Colombia
Local Water Companies and the Urban Poor
Sierra Leone 2015 Population and Housing Census – Thematic Report on Housing Condition housing_conditions_report.pdf
National survey of Ebola-related knowledge, attitudes and practices before the outbreak peak in Sierra Leone : August 2014
Seasonal variation and the effect of particulate Air Pollution in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Communal Approach to Cost Effective Agricultural Land Development in Sierra Leone
Informality and Urban Planning in Africa
The Annual Land Property Tax in Sierra Leoneproperty_tax_in_sierra_leone.pdf
Beyond exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity
Clear Challenges, Options


The Internalisation of Informal Ocupational Risk in Freetown, Sierra Leone

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POLICY BRIEF No 4: Multi-hazards of poor solid waste management

POLICY BRIEF No 3. Landslides and Building Collapse
POLICY BRIEF No 2. Urban Risk Trap: Fire Dynamics in Freetown’s Informal Settlements
POLICY BRIEF No 1 The Reality of Living amidst Floods and Mudslides in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Deforestation: constructing problems and solutions on Sierra Leone's Freetown Peninsula
Environmental and Health Impact of Solid Waste Disposal in Developing Cities
A Situational Analysis of Waste Management in Freetown,  Sierra Leone.
Cities, Climate Change and Urban Agriculture
A socio-economic sustainability assessment of livelihoods from scrap metal collection in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
2013 ANNUAL SURVEY REPORT OF QUARRYING ACTIVITIES IN SIERRA LEONE
Sierra Leone 2015 Population and Housing Census – Thematic Report on Urbanization and Migration
Exploring the role of empowerment in urban humanitarian responses in Freetown
Who engages in Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture in the condensed urban Slums of Bangladesh
Sierra Leone Rapid damage and loss Assessment of the August 14th Landslides and Floods in Western Area
Partnering for social and environmental justice
Community finance: the news from Asia and Africa , Report of a workshop held in November 2007
Planning and the Case study Method in Africa
Overcoming the disjunctures: competing discourses on informal settlements in South Africa
Slum risk mapping report for Congo Town, Kroo Bay, Susan's Bay and Mabella in Freetown
National consultations on new deal fragility assessment
Reducing urban Poverty: some lessons from experience
Baseline Study on the Health, Education, Water and Sanitation and Social Protection with Focus on Freetown, Koidu, Bo and Kenema
Disembedding the city: crime, insecurity and spatial organization in Managua, Nicaragua
A new apartheid? The spatial implications of fear of crime in Cape Town, South Africa
Here to work: the socioeconomic characteristics of informal dwellers in post-apartheid South Africa
Understanding Urban Risk in Freetown
Environmental Assessment and Evaluation of Natural  Disaster Risk and Mitigation in Freetown
Governance and natural disasters: addressing flooding in Saint Louis, Senegal
From practice to theory: emerging lessons from Asia for building urban climate change resilience
Coping with urban flooding: a study of the 2009 Kurnool floods, India
Social Learning for Building Resilience :THE CASE OF YOUTH COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANISATIONS IN INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS OF FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE
Its as if you dont know, because you dont do anything about it : gender and violence in El Salvador
Economics of climate change adaptation at the local scale under conditions of uncertainty and resource constraints: the case of Durban,  South Africa
Community-managed reconstruction after the 2012 fire in old Fadama, Ghana
Crime and violence prevention in an urban Indigenous community
Flood risk in unplanned settlements in Lusaka
Urban youth in Africa
Using diaries to understand women's responses to crime and violence
Participatory integrated assessment of flood protection measures for climate adaptation in Dhaka
Kernels of change: civil society challenges to state-led strategies for recovery and risk reduction in Turkey
Implementing urban participatory climate change adaptation appraisals: a methodological guideline
The implications of population growth and urbanization for climate change
Learning from young people and  from our own experiences in Barrio San Jorge
Blaming cities for climate change? An analysis of urban greenhouse gas emissions inventories
Urbanization and gender-based violence: exploring the paradoxes in the global south
Urban wildscapes and green spaces in Mombasa and their potential contribution to climate change adaptation and mitigation
Cash transfers to tackle childhood poverty and vulnerability: an analysis of Peru's Juntos programme
Winners and losers from the 2001 Gujarat earthquake
Haiti: post-earthquake lessons learned from traditional construction
Radical options for climate adaptation that could help reach poverty goals
How urban societies can adapt to resource shortage and climate change
War and local collective action in Sierra Leone
Peace building and the depoliticisation of civil society: Sierra Leone 2002-13
Freetown City Council Development Plan 2016 - 2018
National Land policy reform program implementation plan 2016 - 2026
Research Methods for Urban Development co learning the city through the lens of risk
Towards a Pro-poor Agenda for Change: Adopting an Inclusive Approach to City and Urban Planning
Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment of Dworzack Community
Explaining the Prevalence of Slums in Developing Countries
Freetown City Development Plan 2016-2018
Preparatory Components and Studies for the Freetown Development Plan - "The Urban Planning Project"
An Assessment of the Urban Conditions and Systemic Issues Contributing to Slum Development in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Millenium development goals report, Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone Second Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
Sierra Leone Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (The Agenda for Change)
Beyond tools and methods: reviewing developments in participatory learning and action
Beneficial urban redevelopment: a Cape Town-Liverpool comparison
Governance for water and sanitation services in low-income settlements: experiences with partnership based management in moreno, Buenos, Aires
Women and water in rural Maharashtra
Community involvement in water supply in West Java
Street hydrant project in Chittagong low-income settlement
The Payatas Environmental Development Programme: microenterprise promotion and involvement in solid waste management in Quezon City
Cities, sewers and poverty: India's politics of sanitation
Who really benefits from environmental sanitation services in the cities? An intra-urban analysis in Betim, Brazil
Sanitation is the key to healthy cities - a profile of Sulabh International
Small-scale entrepreneurs in the urban water and sanitation market
From healthy city projects to healthy cities
Evaluation of healthy city projects: stakeholder analysis of two projects in Bangladesh
Street enterprises, urban livelihoods and poverty in Kinshasa
Housing, Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Sub-Saharan African: An Analysis of Sierra Leone's Housing Market and its Developmental Challenges
Planned Relocation, Disasters and Climate Change: Consolidating  Good Practices and Preparing for the Future
Ghana: Accra Urban Profile
Population Dynamics and Climate Change
The rising tide: assessing the risks of climate change and human settlements in low elevation coastal zones
Human development report
Inequality and health in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires
Child waste pickers in India: the occupation and its health risks
Urban equity and urban health: using existing data to understand inequalities in health and environment in Accra, Ghana and Sao Paulo, Brazil
Poverty and livelihoods: whose reality counts?
Gender, poverty and economic adjustment in Harare, Zimbabwe

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Facilitating War-Affected Young Mothers’ Reintegration: Lessons from a Participatory Action Research Study in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Uganda 

Forced Wives as Victims and Perpetrators of War Violence in Transitional Justice Processes 

Human development report

Rethinking ‘expert sense’ in international development: the case of Sierra Leone’s housing policy

Environmental Assessment and Evaluation of Natural  Disaster Risk and Mitigation in Freetown

The National Flood Preparedness Response Plan for Sierra Leone

Community-driven disaster intervention: Experiences of the Homeless People’s Federation Philippines, Incorporated (HPFPI)

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Bridging the gaps: stakeholder-based strategies for risk reduction and financing for the urban poor

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Governance and natural disasters: addressing flooding in Saint Louis, Senegal

Unjust waters: climate change, flooding and the urban poor in Africa

Addressing disaster risk reduction through community-rooted interventions in the Philippines: experience of the Homeless People’s Federation of the Philippines

Coping with urban flooding: a study of the 2009 Kurnool floods, India

Baseline Study on the Health, Education, Water and Sanitation and Social Protection with Focus on Freetown, Koidu, Bo and Kenema 

“Disembedding” the city: crime, insecurity and spatial organization in Managua, Nicaragua

A new apartheid? The spatial implications of fear of crime in Cape Town, South Africa

Here to work: the socioeconomic characteristics of informal dwellers in post-apartheid South Africa

Flood risk in unplanned settlements in Lusaka

“It’s as if you don’t know, because you don’t do anything about it” : gender and violence in El Salvador

Crime, (counter-)insurgency and the privatization of security – the case of Medellín, Colombia

Economics of climate change adaptation at the local scale under conditions of uncertainty and resource constraints: the case of Durban,  South Africa

Community-managed recontruction after the 2012 fire in old Fadama, Ghana

Crime and violence prevention in an urban Indigenous community

Urban youth in Africa

Urban violence: a guide to the literature

Using diaries to understand women’s responses to crime and violence

Participatory integrated assessment of flood protection measures for climate adaptation in Dhaka

Kernels of change: civil society challenges to state-led strategies for recovery and risk reduction in Turkey

Implementing urban participatory climate change adaptation appraisals: a methodological guideline

The implications of population growth and urbanization for climate change

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Blaming cities for climate change? An analysis of urban greenhouse gas emissions inventories

Urbanization and gender-based violence: exploring the paradoxes in the global south

Urban wildscapes and green spaces in Mombasa and their potential contribution to climate change adaptation and mitigation

Cash transfers to tackle childhood poverty and vulnerability: an analysis of Peru’s Juntos programme

Testing a rapid climate change adaptation assessment for  water and sanitation providers  in informal settlements in  three cities in sub-Saharan Africa

Winners and losers from the 2001 Gujarat earthquake

Haiti: post-earthquake lessons learned from traditional construction

Assessment of Faecal Sludge Emptying Services 

Modelling landfill location using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA)

Cities contribution to global warming: notes on the allocation of greenhouse gas emissions

Towards sustainable residential communities; the Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED) and beyond

The Ilo Clean Air Project: a local response to industrial pollution control in Peru​​

Budget sheets and buy-in: financing community-based waste management in Siem Reap, Cambodia

Switching Managua on! Connecting informal settlements to the formal city through household waste collection

Waiting at the tap: changes in urban water use in East Africa over three decades

Urban development discourses, environmental management and public participation: the case of the Mae Kha canal in Chiang Mai, Thailand​​

The missing population at the 2006 World Urban Forum

An analysis of solid waste generation in a traditional African city: the example of Ogbomoso, Nigeria

The Payatas Environmental Development Programme: micro-enterprise promotion and involvement in solid waste management in Quezon city

Strengthening Land-Use Planning in Local Councils, Guidelines

Freetown City Council Housing Policy and Strategy

A guide to the resettlement of communities living in risk prone areas of Freetown

A Spatial Development Strategy for Sierra Leone

The Land Tenure System in the Western Area and Access to Land by the Freetown City Council

Land and Conflict in Sierra Leone: A Rapid Desk-Based Study

Housing as a human right

The 'tugurious' of San Salvador: a place to live, work and struggle 

Forced Evictions: A Manual for Action and Human Rights

uTshani Buyakhuluma (The grass speaks): People’s Dialogue and the South African Homeless People’s Federation (1994-6)

Determinants of urban Land Price in Freetown, Sierra Leone

The growing problems of forced evictions and the crucial importance of community-based, locally appropriate alternatives 

Colonial legacies, land policiesand the millennium development goals: Lessons from Cameroon and Sierra Leone 

Housing and development in Freetown, Sierra Leone 

Reforming the Customary Land Tenure System in Sierra Leone: A Proposal

Factors for vulnerability: How large-scale land acquisition take advantage of local and national weaknesses in Sierra Leone 

Land and pro-poor change in Sierra Leone

Negotiating for land: the construction and demolition of Ruo Emoh’s show house in Cape Town in August 1999 

User initiated extension activity in Bangladesh: “building slums” or area improvement?

Micro-finance of housing: a key to housing the low or moderate-income majority?

Invisible real estate agents and urban housing development on customary land in Papua New Guinea

The role of civil society in urban environmental rehabilitation: a case study (Thanh Xuan district, Hanoi, Vietnam)

Urban environment challenges and climate change action in New York City

Cities and greenhouse gas emission: moving forward

When utilities muddle through: pro-poor governance in Bangalore's public water sector

Wastewater management in Kunming, China: a stakeholder perspective on measures at the source

Guadalajara's water crisis and the fate of lake Chapala: a reflection of poor water management in Mexico

Urban and peri-urban agriculture production in Beijing municipality and its impact on water quality

The peri-urban water poor: citizen or consumers?

The impact of privatization of solid waste management on the Zabaleen garbage collector of Cairo

Water, society and environment in the history of one Mexican city

Our needs, our priorities; women and men from the slums in Mumbai and Pune talk about their needs for water and sanitation

Addressing congestion and transport-related air pollution in Saharanpur, India

Towards adaptive town environmental planning: the experience from Xiamen, China

The definition of child poverty: a discussion of concepts and measurement

A heritage of unsustainability? Reviewing the origin of the large-scale water and sanitation system in Kampala, Uganda

Financing social infrastructure and addressing poverty through wakf endowments: experience from Kenya and Tanzania

Collaborative governance for sustainable water resources management: the experience of the Inter-municipal Initiative for the Integrated Management of the Ayuquila River Basin, Mexico

Editorial: Addressing poverty and inequility; new forms of urban governance in Asia

Air pollution monitoring through an internet-based network of volunteers

Sao Paulo peri-urban dynamics: some social causes and environmental consequences

The environmental impact of cities

Cities’ contribution to global warming: notes on the allocation of greenhouse gas emissions

Civil society response to industrial contamination of groundwater in Durban, South Africa

Migration and environment in Ghana: a cross-district analysis of human mobility and vegetation dynamics

Integrating land tenure, infrastructure and water catchment management in Sao Paulo's periphery: lessons from a gaming approach

The fragmentation of urban landscapes: global evidence of a key attribute of the spatial structure of cities, 1990-2000

Developing urban waste management in Brazil with waste picker organizations

Urban expansion and the environmental effects of informal settlements on the outskirts of Xalapa city, Veracruz, Mexico

Migration and mobility in a rapidly changing small town in northeastern Ethiopia

Migration to and from Mexico city, 1995-2000

The challenges of multi-stakeholder management in the watershed of Sao Paulo

Pitting the polluted against the flooded: water resources management in Tigre, Buenos Aires

Economic, environmental and socio-cultural sustainability of three constructed wetlands in Thailand

Youth, waste and work in Mathare: whose business and whose politics?

The challenges of local environmental problems facing the urban poor in Chittagong, Bangladesh: a scale-sensitive analysis

Coping with the impacts of weather changes in rural Sierra Leone

Breaks with the Past: Conflict, Displacement, Resettlement and the Evolution of Forest Socio-Ecologies in Sierra Leone

Energy justice for all? Rethinking Sustainable Development Goal 7 through struggles over traditional energy practices in Sierra Leone 

Mexico City: our common future?

Governmental responses to air pollution: summary of a study of the implementation of rodízio in São Paulo

Is environmental health really a part of economic development - or only an afterthought?

The urban community environmental activities project and its environment fund in Thailand

A dream of green and water: community based formulation of a Local Agenda 21 in peri-urban Lima

The local environmental action plan for Olivares commune in Manizales, Colombia

Information and participation within environmental management

Partnerships for urban environmental management: the roles of urban authorities, researchers and civil society 

Towards a Strategic Urban Plan for Makeni

Freetown Improvement Act (The Laws of Sierra Leone)

Assessment and Evaluation of the Functioning Laws of Significance for Urban and Land Use Planning and Development Control  in Sierra Leone

A Spatial Development Strategy for Sierra Leone

Assessment and Evaluation of the functioning Laws of significance  for Urban and Land Use Planning and Management in Sierra Leone

Households, gender and rural-urban migration: reflections on linkages and considerations for policy

Contemporary Urban Planning

Community Participation Methods in Design and Planning

Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial and Post-Colonial Planning Cultures

Urban Informalities: Reflections on the formal and informal

Planning and Design for Future Informal Settlements: Shaping the self-constructed city

Building an urban poor people’s movement in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

One David and three Goliaths: avoiding anti-poor solutions to Mumbai’s transport problems

Rural-urban dichotomy and convergence: emerging realities in Bangladesh

Anatomy of the Bombay NGO sector

Children’s experience of the physical environment in poor urban settlements and the implications for policy, planning and practice

Producing, providing, trading: manufacturing industry and sustainable cities

Voluntary recycling in Quito: factors associated with participation in a pilot programme

The changing nature of the informal sector in Karachi as a result of global restructuring and liberalization

Travel choice reframed: “deep distribution” and gender in urban transport

From global intercity competition to cooperation for livable cities and economic resilience in Pacific Asia

Cities in a globalizing world: from engines of growth to agents of change

Globalization and social exclusion in cities: framing the debate with lessons from Africa and Asia

Bridging local institutions and civil society in Latin America: can city-tocity cooperation make a difference?

Post-Jonglei planning in southern Sudan: combining environment with development

Negotiating the right to stay in the city

With and beyond the state – co-production as a route to political influence, power and transformation for grassroots organizations

Women’s decision-making in rural and urban households in Nicaragua: the influence of income and ideology

A participatory governance model for the sustainable development of Cumalıkızık, a heritage site in Turkey

A tale of two wards: political participation and the urban poor in Dhaka city

Participatory governance in Peru: exercising citizenship

State and civil society in the barrios of Havana, Cuba: the case of Pogolotti

Free basic water – a sustainable instrument for a sustainable future in South Africa

Partnerships between government and slum/shack dwellers’ federations

Civil society and urban poverty – examining complexity 

The nature of poverty in the garrison constituencies in Jamaica

Drugs, alcohol and community tolerance: an urban ethnography from Colombia and Guatemala

Participatory mapping for crime prevention in South Africa – local solutions to local problems

Challenges of managing a government town planning office in Nepal: a planner’s experience 

Orangi Pilot Project: the expansion of work beyond Orangi and the mapping of informal settlements and infrastructure

The political and institutional blockages to good governance: the case of the Lyari expressway in Karachi

Community police stations in Mumbai’s slums

Power to the people? Local governance and politics in Vietnam

How poverty is underestimated in Greater Cairo, Egypt

Research and practice as advocacy tools to influence Angola’s land policies

“For enhanced civic participation in local governance”: calling tyranny to account in Harare

Strategies for grassroots control of international aid

Housing, institutions, money: the failures and promise of human settlements policy and practice  in South Africa

Incorporating crime in household surveys: a research note 

Young people’s views on how to tackle gang violence in “postconflict” Guatemala

Straightforward critics or would-be candidates? International migrants and the management of local affairs and development: the case of the Senegal River valley

Pulling rickshaws in the city of Dhaka: a way out of poverty?

Enabling participatory planning with GIS: a case study of settlement mapping in Cuttack, India

Privatization of the urban water supply in Kenya: policy options for the poor 

Developing an informal settlement upgrading protocol in Zimbabwe −  the Epworth story

Looking for the one(s): young love and urban poverty in The Gambia

Is urbanization contributing to higher food prices?

Embedding international migration: the response of Bolivian local governments and NGOs to international migration

Migrants as a source of revenue in small towns in China

Watching the city grow: remittances and sprawl in intermediate Central American cities

Being a mayor: the view from four Colombian cities

Scope for bottom-up planning in Kolkata: rhetoric vs reality

Rosario’s development; interview with Miguel Lifschitz, mayor of Rosario, Argentina

The Social Aid and Assistance programme of the government of Egypt – a critical review

Children and young people build participatory democracy in Latin American cities

Institutional profile: Habitat International Coalition 1976–2006

When utilities muddle through: pro-poor governance in Bangalore’s public water sector

Implementing the urban reform agenda in Brazil

Understanding urban chronic poverty: crossing the qualitative and quantitative divide

Planning with Ecological Footprints: a sympathetic critique of theory and practice

The creation of a new underclass in China and its implications

Sustainability and infrastructure planning in South Africa: a Cape Town case study

The Ecological Footprint of cities and regions: comparing resource availability with resource demand

Aiding local action: the constraints faced by donor agencies in supporting effective, pro-poor initiatives on the ground

Participatory budgeting: a significant contribution to participatory democracy 

Costa Rica’s Triangle of Solidarity: can government-led spaces for negotiation enhance the involvement of civil society in governance?

The politics of engagement: gains and challenges of the NGO coalition in Cebu City

Establishing the role of communities in governance: the experience of the Homeless People’s Federation Philippines

Participatory city planning in Chhattisgarh: a civil society initiative

“Like we don’t have enough on our hands already!”: the story of the Kenyan slum youth federation

Financial exclusion in Latin America – or the social costs of not banking the urban poor

Neglecting the urban poor in Bangladesh: research, policy and action in the context of climate change

Political Economy: A comparative approach

Urban planning methods: Research and policy analysis

Towards a Pro-poor Agenda for Change: Adopting an Inclusive Approach to City and Urban Planning

Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment of Dworzack Community

Freetown City Development Plan 2016-2018

Preparatory Components and Studies for the Freetown Development Plan “The Urban Planning Project”

Evolution of Town Planning Ideas, Plans and their Implementation in Kampala City 1903-2004

An Assessment of the Urban Conditions and Systemic Issues Contributing to Slum Development in Freetown, Sierra Leone