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IIED Briefings: Environment for the MDGs

Trees, poverty and targets. Forests and the Millennium Development Goals James Mayers Apr 2007 - IIED Biodiversity for the Millennium Development Goals: What local organisations can do Dilys Roe, Ivan Bond Mar 2007 - IIED International trade in biofuels: Good for development? And good for environment? Annie Dufey Jan 2007 – IIED Making Poverty Reduction Irreversible: development implications of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Steve Bass Jul 2006 - IIED

How to Make Poverty History – the central role of local organizations in meeting the MDGs Editedby Tom Bigg & David Satterthwaite IIED 2005

Entire Booklet View PDF [733k] Contents/Foreword View PDF [86k] Chapter 1: Introduction: why local organizations are central to meeting the MDGs - David Satterthwaite View PDF [172k] Chapter 2: Securing land and property rights in sub-Saharan Africa: the role of local institutions - Camilla Toulmin View PDF [128k] Chapter 3: Conservation with social justice? The role of community conserved areas in achieving the Millennium Development Goals - Neema Pathak, Ashish Kothari and Dilys Roe View PDF [111k] Chapter 4: Advancement through association: Appropriate support for associations of small and medium forest enterprises - Duncan Macqueen, Sonja Vermeulen, Cornelius Kazoora, Frank Merry, Sharon Ousman, Sushil Saigal, Shao Wen and Horst Weyerhauser View PDF [102k] Chapter 5: Meeting the MDGs in urban areas: the forgotten role of local organizations - David Satterthwaite View PDF [127k] Chapter 6: Supporting locally determined food systems: the role of local organizations in farming, environment and people’s access to food - Michel Pimbert View PDF [126k] Chapter 7: Africa: a crucible for climate change and poverty - Hannah Reid View PDF [98k] Chapter 8: Implementing international procedural rights and obligations: serving the environment and poor communities - Jona Razzaque View PDF [99k]

The Millennium Development Goals and Conservation - Managing Nature’s Wealth for Society’s Health Edited by Dilys Roe IIED 2004

Entire Booklet View PDF [879k] Acknowledgements View PDF [59k] Contents View PDF [61k] Foreward View PDF [100k] Summary View PDF [90k] Chapter 1: Introduction View PDF [177k] Chapter 2: Beyond Wildlife - Biodiversity and Human Health - Eric Chivian, Harvard Medical School View PDF [172k] Chapter 3: Climate Change - Biodiversity and Livelihood Impacts - Hannah Reid, IIED View PDF [187k] Chapter 4: How can Markets for Ecosystem Services Benefit the Poor? - Maryanne Grieg-Gran, IIED and Joshua Bishop, IUCN View PDF [204k] Chapter 5: Reconciling Global and Local Priorities for Conservation and Development - Sonja Vermeulen, IIED View PDF [184k] Chapter 6: Sustainable Landscapes - Linking Conservation and Production - Jeffrey A. McNeely, IUCN View PDF [174k] Chapter 7: Mainstreaming Biodiversity into Business- Annelisa Grigg, Fauna and Flora International View PDF [192k] Chapter 8: Scaling-up Community Efforts to Reach the MDGs - An Assessment of Experience from the Equator Prize - Michael Hooper, Rubab Jafry, Matthew Marolla and Josselin Phan, Equator Initiative, UNDP View PDF [217k] Chapter 9: Linking Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Reduction to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals - Peter Hazlewood, Geeta Kulshrestha, and Charles McNeill, UNDP View PDF [200k] Endword View PDF [134k]

The Millennium Development Goals and Local Processes: Hitting the target or missing the point? Edited by David Satterthwaite IIED 2003

Entire Booklet View PDF [600k] Contents View PDF [88k] Summary View PDF [90k] Chapter 1: Introduction View PDF [80k] Chapter 2: The Millennium Development Goals and poverty reduction - David Satterthwaite View PDF [180k] Chapter 3: Beyond inaccurate crisis narratives; meeting the water and sanitation MDGs - Gordon McGranahan View PDF [90k] Chapter 4: The Millennium Development Goals and natural resources management: reconciling sustainable livelihoods and resource conservation or fueling a divide? - Dilys Roe View PDF [118k] Chapter 5: The MDGs and sustainable development: the need for a strategic approach - Barry Dalal-Clayton View PDF [117k] Chapter 6: Feeding the Future? Agri-food systems and the Millennium Development Goals - John Thompson View PDF [90k] Chapter 7: How will West African countries meet the MDGs? - Camilla Toulmin and Bara Guèye View PDF [140k] Chapter 8: Policy coherence and the Millennium Development Goals - Maryanne Grieg-Gran View PDF [115k] Chapter 9: The new world order and Pakistan - Arif Hasan View PDF [63k]

Sustainable Development Opinion 2003

Improving Access to Water and Sanitation: Rethinking the way forward in light of the Millennium Development Goals
Gordon McGranahan, David Satterthwaite and John Thompson
2003, 2pp
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Hitting the Target or Missing the Point? Key Messages from an International Conference on the MDGs

In November 2003 IIED organised an international conference to explore how tensions between global targets and local needs can be used creatively - as opposed to leading to paralysis or mis-direction. Participants came from a wide variety of contexts, with strong representation from Southern organisations focusing on local sustainability and also from donor agencies and international institutions (see www.meetingthemdgs.org).

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Responses received so far to our MDG questionnaire

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