For those of you doing research with urban refugees and IDPs - come and present a paper in London!

Recording this podcast with the fabulous Romola Sanyal from LSE Geography & Environment was a lot of fun. Hopefully fun to listen to too! lse.ac.uk/geography-and-…

Refugee camps may be an easy way to offer support to people in an emergency but they should not be the long-term solution. New research shows that #refugees in East Africa who live in cities experience better wellbeing and more economic opportunities. --> iied.org/wellbeing-refu…

In many countries, host governments require refugees to live in camps rather than cities. Life in Kenya’s Dadaab #refugee camp is described by one woman as 'suffocating. It’s like living in a bottle enclosed from all ends and recycling the same oxygen'. iied.org/wellbeing-refu…

Join IIED, Mayors Migration Council, Nairobi City County & African Youth Action Network - AYAN on Dec 6th as we present findings from our protracteddisplacement.org study, launch a brief on refugees and city planning, and hear from refugee & city leaders on working together. Register here: bit.ly/3XhGxNd

We are recruiting for a consultant to work with us on three projects focused on urban refugees in Jordan. Fantastic opportunity for a talented researcher who also wants to influence policy for displaced people. More info here: jobs.iied.org/IIED/JobDescri…

Back in 2009 when I got my PhD I thought my studying days were over. How wrong I was! #everydayisaschoolday

Brilliant thread by IIED coms team sharing the inputs that took place in our hybrid event at World Urban Forum. Around 180 people online and 50 in person in the room!

We just launched this paper World Urban Forum - setting out IIED’s approaches to housing, climate justice, resilience and migration in the context of a changing climate pubs.iied.org/21006iied

IIED is at the WUF in Poland!

IIED is hiring! We are looking for a quant and mixed methods researcher to join the team working on our protracteddisplacement.org project. More details here: jobs.iied.org/IIED/JobDescri…

Mobility is emerging as a key concern for the urban refugees participating in our PDUW research. How can they make the most of urban life if they can't move around the city? Read this short piece about Fardosa, a Somali refugee in Eastleigh, Nairobi. protracteddisplacement.org/refugees-resid… #IIED

Congrats to the filmmakers, Slum Dwellers International, @Wanavijiji, IIED's #urban team & everyone who took part in this impactful documentary exploring the lives of urban #refugees in their own words: winner of best documentary at #Eldoret Film Festival Eldoret Film Festival🥇🎞️👏 iied.org/film-exploring…

Sunday is World Cities Day + start of the CoP. #UNHABITAT is highlighting vulnerabilities of urban IDPs to climate change and suggesting direct funding to muncipalities to build resilience unhabitat.org/as-cities-adap… #solutionsforidps

‘Single use data, like single use plastic, is wasteful’ say Laura Smits and Maggie Stephenson in their new blog on post-earthquake response in Haiti.

What does the #RaceToZero mean for the urban poor? And what, if anything, does decarbonization have to do with long-standing movements for urban justice? A short(?) thread for #UrbanOctober . 1/

Citing IIED JIPS_Joint Internal Displacement Profiling Service and UN-Habitat the report from the High Level Panel on IDPs states: Cities
should not be seen as only the backdrop where
displacement occurs but as a rich ecosystem
that can contribute to the resolution of displacement. #solutionsforIDps

With Dyfed Aubrey Isis Nunez Ferrera Stephanie Loose and Chris Ward, we've been making the case that long-term urban IDPs must be considered city residents. Federica Mogherini and the panel seem to agree. Time to incorporate IDPs into urban development plans.

UN High-Level Panel on IDPs report being launched now. Antonio Guterres just recognised that internal displacement and urbanisation are happening hand in hand. Read more about that here: pubs.iied.org/sites/default/…

So excited to be getting the chance to do more work in Mogadishu with the great team African Cities Research Consortium