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“Public officers are also human beings”: trust and environmental governance
Insight, 08 July 2020
Global Water Initiative: Burkina Faso
Project, 16 February 2018
Global Water Initiative: Guinea
Project, 16 February 2018
IIED's best of 2015: publications
… to as wide an audience as possible: you can download all the publications in this top-10 list free of charge in PDF format. You can also search all our publications, both formal published works and informal literature, from the main page of our publications site . We offer libraries and resource centres in the …
Article, 31 December 2015
Public-private partnerships and aid's 'private turn': addressing the investment law dimensions
Insight, 30 January 2018
Do urban populations benefit from urban bias?
… Bias in World Development '. It spawned much discussion and many more publications on this topic, with Google Scholar showing Lipton’s book … bias must have seen the very poor living conditions and absence of public services in informal settlements. Yet housing quality, service … A high proportion of the urban population do not benefit from piped water to their homes or sewer connections . Indeed, most urban centres …
Insight, 01 September 2021
Getting Lebanon’s water flowing: using new SDG data in an urban crisis
Insight, 19 February 2018
Public and private sectors: delivering energy access for people living in poverty
… energy services that poor people need The respective roles of the public and private finance, particularly to reach the poorest, and … in East Africa and Nepal, providing clean, metered power and water to 10,000 people.  Klaus Rudischhauser, deputy director general at DG for international cooperation and development : the …
News, 04 June 2015
Improved water access unaffordable for urban poor
… Goal (MDG) assessments have demonstrated that access to an improved water source has increased significantly since 1990 (PDF) . However, … water needs. Water users as customers By the 1980s, there was a general perception that sub-Saharan water utilities had been subject to … been increasingly viewed as legitimate 'customers' entitled to access public service, if they can pay for them. But this undermines their …
Insight, 22 March 2016
2021 Barbara Ward Lecture: Rebeca Grynspan says nothing is ever so small that it cannot make a difference
… decided to abolish the army, democratised credit and set up big public programmes and institutions for basic needs such as energy access, water and sanitation and for social protection. In the 1970s when it … experiment – and then adapt Grynspan closed her lecture with some general lessons. “Costa Rica is an example of development not being …
Article, 16 December 2021