Slums and informal settlements
Socioeconomic Determinants Of Maternal Healthcare-Seeking Behaviour In The Informal Settlements Of Nairobi, Kenya: The Case Of Korogocho Slums, Nairobi
... The questionnaire served as the primary data collection instrument for this study, and was administered 512 main respondents, who comprised of women who delivered within the one year preceding the study. Respondents were ...
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Maternal mortality in the informal settlements of Nairobi city: what do we know?
... Whereas most deliveries and abortions that resulted into a maternal death took place outside of a health care facil- ity, most of them died at a health care facility. This might be a pointer to delays in recognizing a ...
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Development-induced displacement of informal settlements in Makkah, Saudi Arabia
... as informal settlements, squatter settlements and or slum ...target informal settlements, squatters and slums area inhabited by disadvantaged and low- income ...
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Determinants of use of informal settlement community libraries by children in selected informal settlements in Nairobi County, Kenya
... the slums, where in most cases homes are made up of single rooms which serve as the bedroom, sitting room, and kitchen and this does not provide children with the environment they would require for ...
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Malnutrition, morbidity and infection in the informal settlements of Nairobi, Kenya: an epidemiological study
... The relationship between common acute infections and stunting is difficult to explore, especially in the slums, where multiple factors may concur at the same time. For example, documented indoor air pollution ...
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Managing Human Waste in Informal Settlements: Bio centres in Kibera Informal Settlement, Kenya
... Nairobi’s slums. But Umande Trust has taken upon itself to rid off the informal settlements of this title through provision of ...the informal settlements would have to queue for two ...
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Phosphorus transport and retention in a channel draining an urban, tropical catchment with informal settlements
... The upper Lubigi catchment (28 km 2 ) is located Northwest of Kampala, the capital city of Uganda, with the outlet at latitude 0 ◦ 21 0 N and longitude 32 ◦ 33 0 E (Fig. 1). The catch- ment is largely urbanised with a ...
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Adult mortality and its impact on children in two informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya
... two slums show that HIV prevalence was highest in the oldest age groups studied 50 to 54 years of age among males and 45 to 49 years among females [234] ...
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Integrating openstreetmap data and sentinel-2 Imagery for classifying and monitoring informal settlements
... deficit. Informal settlements and slums develop because they are the only type of settlement affordable and accessible to the poor in cities, where competition for land is ...evictions. ...
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SANITATION INTERVENTIONS IN THE URBAN INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS OF BANGLADESH: THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT, NGOs AND THE GRASSROOTS
... managed slums such as the occupational structure of the residents where they are engaged mostly with formal and informal economic activities respectively that may have an impact on participation or the ...
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Solid Waste Management in the Slums and Squatter Settlements in the City of Bangalore
... squatter settlements are characterized by a gross deficiency of basic services such as proper housing, provision and supply of safe potable water, sanitation facilities such as latrines and disposal of human ...
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Developing a National Informal Settlements Upgrading Strategy for the Philippines FINAL REPORT
... Accepting that people matter and adopting the principle of subsidiarity, suggests a return to the slum upgrading approach so successfully adopted in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. This covered the Tondo Foreshore ...
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Solid Waste Management in the Informal Settlements: A Land Use Planning Perspective
... of informal settlements, especially in developing countries, a problem markedly elicited by inadequate land use planning ...Although informal settlements are defined in a multiplicity of ways, ...
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Understanding urban informality : everyday life in informal urban settlements in Pakistan
... urban informal processes and ...that informal social and economic practices are increasingly “incorporated” into and embraced by formal, corporate ...and informal urban practices has not previously ...
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Prevalence and correlates for diarrhoea in the mountainous informal settlements of Huye town, Rwanda
... urban informal settlements in developing countries are consistently reported to be victims of high diarrhoea ...urban informal settlements similar to the Rwandan ...
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Promoting entrepreneurship amid youth in Windhoek’s informal settlements: a Namibian case
... One of the promising initiatives has been The Reconstructed Living Labs (RLabs). The concept was originated in South Africa in 2008 (Parker et al., 2012) and is now a global movement operating in 22 countries worldwide. ...
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The Cost of Misguided Urbanization: The Case of Informal Settlements in Butuan City, Philippines
... project may be a means to uplift the economic conditions of these members of society and improve their economic well-being. However, informal settlers add up to the financial burden of implementing public ...
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Constructing ordinary places: Place-making in urban informal settlements in Mexico
... Whether the neighbourhood has legal titles, as in the case of Moctezuma, or not, as in the case of Loma Bonita, seems to make little difference to the Municipal Government. The salient point is the lack of ‘planning’ and ...
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Rethinking urban risk and adaptation: the politics of vulnerability in informal urban settlements
... and informal land purchase – the basis for settlement in all the neighbourhoods – meant that the state only partially accommodated claims to house ...recognised informal titles - promesas de venta – as ...
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Learning opportunities for sanitation improvements in informal settlements of East African cities
... The variation of demand barriers and the finance and marketing services highlights some opportunities for other cities to learn on how to tackle the national and local challenges to providing sanitation improvements, and ...
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