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Current themes for the institute and our partners include:

• Achieving the MDGs, through critical analysis of target setting, equity, environment and power dimensions. IIED provides a particular focus on poverty reduction, water and sanitation, slum upgrading and tenure security, and ensuring that environment lies at the heart of all sustainable development strategies. We aim to show how best to include the basic fundamentals of life (access to land, shelter, food, power and rights) in the MDG process and build on local organisations’ ability to address the priorities of local people. This implies a strengthening of local capacity to assess changes using key indicators designed and monitored at local levels.
  
  
• Strengthening institutions and processes for better governance, locally and globally.
  Governance underlies all other issues, whether in corporate, government, or civil society circles. We are examining the global financial architecture, the approaches being followed by donors to deliver aid, and the difficulties associated with Poverty Reduction Strategy processes. IIED seeks to demonstrate the shortcomings of such structures and processes and the urgent need for inclusive, consensus-based decision-making that meets the needs of the many, rather than only serving the interests of the powerful few.
  
  More on European Union's Strategy for Sustainable Development can be found on the Ring alliance website
  
  

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