Attendees of Clean Air Catalyst s September 2023 Learning Circle discuss air quality monitoring. Using individual low-cost sensors courtesy of Nafas, participants were invited to observe real-time air quality data in their own homes. Photo: Clean Air Catalyst On a Sunday afternoon in September 2023, a group of about 30 individuals, including a group of mostly…
Our guest bloggers describe how limited funds, made available during the pandemic, led to a cooperative business start-up which eases the domestic burden on women, benefits the local community and improves public health by reducing infection risk
A new study explores how urban community networks in Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines and Thailand responded to the COVID-19 crisis in effective and strategic ways. Experienced networks kept their focus on long-term structural change as they addressed urgent community needs, and so managed to strengthen, enlarge and legitimise an alternative ‘people's system’ that can
A network of large informal communities and street vendors cooperatives in Jakarta found a way to get better cheaper rice to communities during the COVID-19 pandemic