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Cattle are driven down a road by nomads
Climate change is advancing in Nigeria: we can’t keep running
Insight, 17 December 2019
People looking at a map
Learning from community planning following the Haiti earthquake
… archive As a contribution to the DFID-funded Urban Crises programme , IIED supported three researchers with detailed knowledge of … Reports and evaluations  Photographs and communication materials, and General/overview documents. City folder – this folder contains three … resulted in practical improvements to living conditions and brought about far-reaching institutional change in both the status of informal …
Project, 09 January 2020
Images for biodiversity, conservation and poverty reduction (Photos: Ricky Martin, Douglas Shiel, Tim Cronin)
Q&A: Why the PCLG website is the place to be for poverty and conservation issues
… other ways you can engage with the PCLG. What is the PCLG site all about? The PCLG website is the information portal of the Poverty and … the website provides information on the work done by the IIED-based PCLG secretariat and by the national PCLG chapters in Uganda … monthly round-ups of the work of the PCLG and its members, plus general updates on poverty-conservation issues, and PCLG Journal …
Insight, 09 October 2014
Sumaya Zakieldeen
Q&A with Sumaya Zakieldeen
… and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). The interview was carried out by Saleemul Huq, Senior Fellow with … towards all developing countries and towards climate adaptation in general.  Q: You have been negotiating on behalf of Sudan, the LDCs and … [working in this field]. Through the Forum we…keep the NGOs updated about the international negotiations on climate change. The Sudanese …
Article, 21 June 2012
Rwanda is planning to produce land, water and forest accounts to inform policy around managing its rich natural resources.(Photo: Catherine Nomura, Creative Commons via Flickr)
First steps in communication: raising awareness
Insight, 12 May 2015
Cover for 9034IIED.pdf
PLA Notes 41: General Issue
… This is a general edition which includes the following articles: A report on … predation in villages around Waza National Park in Cameroon. A paper about the challenges faced by a multidisciplinary PLA programme on the … proposals. The Tips for Trainers section features extracts from the IIED Forestry and Land Use Programme's book 'Forestry tactics: Lessons …
Publication, 01 June 2001
A local farmer uses manual callipers to measure a tree. Measuring trees in person can be cheaper and just as accurate (Photo: Geoff Wells)
The Paris Agreement, SDGs and simple local monitoring
… restrain local participation and decision making by distancing useful information and decision making from local stakeholders. I was in Paris last month on the sidelines of COP21 at IIED's REDD+ workshop , the Global Landscape Forum and the Development & … the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) also talked about the need for cost effective monitoring as REDD+ is upscaled. From …
Insight, 07 January 2016
Small-scale producers in the globalised market
… en español Learning Network partners Hivos , IIED and Mainumby were joined by Rimisp  (Centro Latinoamericano para el … Project on Rural Development with Cultural Identity, the Secretaría General de la Comunidad Andina , and the Asociación Peruana de … Arya (India) and Morrison Rwakakamba (Uganda) responded to questions about small producer agency. Follow the links below for further …
Event, 23 September 2011
The United Nations headquarters in New York City (Photo: Wally Goetz, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The right to sustainable development: what the post-2015 agenda declaration should say – but won't
… Yet there seems to me to be a paucity of ambition in discussions about what the declaration needs to say. Why should this be the case? … agreed at Rio+20 (and included in the SDG draft). The UN Secretary General's synthesis report added a set of six essential elements to the … right to sustainable development. Jonathan Reeves ( jonathan.reeves@iied.org ) is a senior researcher with IIED. This blog was first posted …
Insight, 18 February 2015