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Delivering innovation and choice in water supply in Kenya's informal settlements [PDF]
, 2012 Improved access to water and sanitation in the worlds slums were among the key targets in the Millennium Development Goals. In Kenya, water is generally accessed in slum areas by filling 20l jerrycans at standposts and water kiosks and carrying back to ...
O'Regan, Jack
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A Validated Framework for Characterising Informal Settlements: Two Cases from Greater Cairo, Egypt
Buildings, 2023 There have been significant research studies on informal settlements within various disciplines including sociology, economy, politics, governance, and urbanism. However, little is known about the complexity and dynamism of informal settlements.
Asser Bakhaty +2 more
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Remote Sensing, 2022 Informal settlement mapping is essential for planning, as well as resource and utility management. Developing efficient ways of determining the properties of informal settlements (when, where, and who) is critical for upgrading services and planning ...
Ahmad Fallatah +3 more
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Towards Strategic Planning Implementation for Egyptian Cities
Environmental Science and Sustainable Development, 2018 Strategic urban planning plays a real and significant role in developing the urban areas worldwide because it helps in mitigating the loss of lands; especially in diversion of urban growth away from the “agricultural lands”.
Marwa Ahmed Soliman
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Frontiers in Global Women's Health, 2021 Background: Quality of care (QoC) of family planning (FP) affects contraceptive use, and it varies across types of urban settlement. This study assesses the difference in service delivery point (SDP) structural and process factors between formal and ...
Zubair Lukyamuzi +8 more
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Exploring gender, health, and intersectionality in informal settlements in Freetown
, 2021 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 ...
Conteh, Abu +2 more
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Buildings, 2023 There is a need to understand the complex nature of informal settlements to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 11: “Making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable”.
Eman El Nachar, Doaa Abouelmagd
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A participatory GIS approach to flood risk assessment of informal settlements the case of Cape Town [PDF]
, 2012 Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references.Rural-urban migrations have contributed to the steady increase in the population of Cape Town.
Musungu, Kevin
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Women's access to land and housing post-1994 in the informal settlements at Ficksburg in the Free State South Africa [PDF]
, 2010 This dissertation investigated the constraints that inhibit women from getting access to formal housing and land in Ficksburg in the Free State province of South Africa.
Kane, Mookho
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Explaining the effective physical criteria in promoting resilience of informal settlements in the face of environmental hazards (Case study: Hamadan) [PDF]
مخاطرات محیط طبیعی, 2023 The vulnerability of informal settlements to environmental hazards reveals the importance of paying attention to resilience. Resilience is considered a form of foresight due to the dynamic nature of society's response to risks. Accordingly, this issue is
Hassan Hekmatnia +3 more
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