partnerships

IIED's strength is its emphasis on collaboration with its partners and networks, especially in the developing world...

Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of Green Belt Movement, Kenya

IIED is part of a global community sharing knowledge and best practice with partners round the globe, many in the developing world.

Who are they? Some are individuals working in other NGOs, government, academia, indigenous people’s groups, international organizations and multilateral agencies such as the UN.

Others are alliances that IIED either steers or works very closely with, often at the grassroots in developing countries. These include:

  • the Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG), a point of collaboration with over 100 other grassroots-to-global organisations working at the nexus of poverty reduction and biodiversity conservation
  • Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI), a network of urban poor federations and NGOs from Africa, Asia and Latin America
  • the Latin American Center for Rural Development (Rimisp), a nonprofit Chile-based organization that works with others to promote inclusion, equity, wellbeing and democratic development in rural Latin America
  • Up in Smoke, an alliance of UK-based environment and development NGOs set up to disseminate information on climate change adaptation
  • the Ring, a 13-strong alliance of policy research institutes across the globe working to enhance and promote sustainable development through collaborative research, dissemination and policy advocacy.

 

  • the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee’s ENVIRONET, in which IIED has observer status. ENVIRONET brings together senior representatives of development cooperation agencies responsible for environment, environmental specialists from multilateral agencies, and NGOs
  • the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). IIED has institutional membership and participates actively in the members’ forum as well as working closely with IUCN staff on joint initiatives such as projects on wildlife conservation and the exploration of future priorities for organisations focusing on sustainability.