Participation projects and articles

Learning how to adapt to climate change: advocacy, training and capacity building

17 December 2012

Article

IIED works to help support southern countries as they adapt to climate change and the extreme weather events it brings. We do this by supporting partner organisations and experts that offer climate change adaptation training, advocacy and capacity building.

Empowering communities to adapt to climate change

17 December 2012

Article

Climate change

Participation

Many communities that are vulnerable to climate change impacts have been dealing with climate variability for decades and have a wealth of knowledge about how to adapt. Community-based adaptation to climate change focuses on empowering communities to use their own knowledge and decision-making processes to take action.

Participatory Learning and Action

3 October 2012

Article

Biodiversity

Governance

Natural resource management

Participation

Announcement on the future of the PLA series

The Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) series is 25 years old this year. At this important milestone, IIED is taking stock of PLA to look at its legacy and its future direction.

Just how inclusive is ‘inclusive business’?

27 June 2011

Article

Participation

Sustainable markets

Discussion at the latest of the IIED-Hivos ‘provocations’ in Brussels last week (22 June) suggests that the first step in assessing how ‘pro-poor’ business contributes to development and smallholder empowerment, is to understand what we mean by the word ‘inclusive’.

Medio Ambiente y Urbanizacion- Oct 10 issue now online

22 November 2010

Article

Participation

Urban environments

The new issue of the Spanish language journal, Medio Ambiente y Urbanizacion, published by our sister organisation 'iied américa latina' is now out and available to download free of charge.