Between 2021 and 2022, the ARISE project team conducted data collection using diaries with 32 marginalised and vulnerable groups and a cross-sectional household survey with 1761 study participants in Korogocho and Viwandani informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya. This brief outlines the findings from this survey. .
Systems of Waste: Documentaries exploring the lives of sanitation workers and waste pickers in India
Earlier this year our partner, The George Institute, India, created a series of short documentaries as part of the ARISE project. These films explore the lives and experiences of garbage collectors, sanitation workers and waste pickers, and their significance in the context of sanitation and public health. The films were produced in English and local […]
Equitable health research requires actively engaging communities in producing new knowledge to advocate for their health needs. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) relies on the coproduction of contextual and grounded knowledge between researchers, programme implementers and community partners with the aim of catalysing action for change. Improving coproduction competencies can support research quality and validity. Yet, […]
This poster was originally presented at the 8th Annual Symposium on Health Systems Research in Nagasaki, Japan. Authors are Muhammad Riaz Hossain, Nazia Islam, Mst. Nusrat Jahan, Tasmiha Amin Oishy, Bachera Aktar and Sabina Faiz Rashid. Inequalities in knowledge production disproportionately affect disadvantaged communities (John & Rempala, 2024). Socioeconomic, gender, and institutional hierarchies contribute to […]
A poster, presented at Bintu Mansaray, Rosie Steege, Samira Sesay, Inviolata Njeri Njoroge, Ivy Chumo, Caroline Kabaria, Blessing Mberu, Partho Mukherjee, Surekha Garimella, Riaz Hossain, Sabina Rashid, Rachel Tolhurst, Neele Wiltgen Georgi, Kate Hawkins, Sally Theobald and Laura Dean, at the 8th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research. Urban informal settlements are characterised by poor […]
Urban informality, often viewed negatively, is not solely the product of the urban poor but also reflects the failure of formal systems to adapt. Informal workers, who make up about 61% of the global workforce, operate outside formal labor laws and significantly contribute to urban development. Understanding and harnessing community capitals are vital for sustainable […]
Professor Naila Kabeer and Professor Sabina Rashid, two very highly distinguished scholars in their respective fields within global development studies, gender relations and social transformation. In this episode of In Dialogue they are joined by Professor Hilary Standing to discuss gender relations in Bangladesh. Naila’s book, Renegotiating patriarchy: gender agency and the Bangladesh paradox, is […]
ARISE aimed to explore and understand the health and well-being of people and communities working and living in informal spaces, which can be influenced by a combination of factors such as residence, environmental conditions, financial status, educational attainment and social connections with friends and family. There is evidence that the close involvement of co-researchers at […]
During 2023 and 2024 ARISE partners, from around the world, took part in a process to summarise and synthesise the learning from their work. Country teams of researchers and co-researchers came together to map out the activities they had engaged in since our inception, the milestones along the way and how communities had changed as […]
Mahila Milan, “Women Together” in Hindi, are a women’s collective in slums and slum relocation colonies, who work with resident communities, theirpolitical representatives and municipal officials to manage credit and savings activities. Mahila Milan was created in 1986 when hundreds of women who lived on Mumbai’s pavements organised to successfully prevent the demolitions of their […]
