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Race and racism audit recommendations 2024/25 update

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Youth-led civic media for urban governance

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Engaging young people from informal settlements in housing and urban governance

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Civic Media Labs in São Paulo and Lagos: lessons and methods from and for housing movements

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Communicating locally-led nature restoration: themes and insights

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Strengthening communications capabilities for housing justice: the transformative potential of civic media labs

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Communication practices and the struggles for housing justice

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Digging the foundations for a new home in an informal settlement in Nairobi (Photo: April Rinne, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Off the beaten track: Urban Matters blog roll

Article, 24 November 2015

International days are used to promote awareness and action on important topics. But how does IIED engage with them? (Image: IIED)

Seizing the day without falling off the bandwagon

Insight, 19 November 2015

Cambodia's rural population is heavily reliant on small-scale rice production. The Clean Sugar Campaign campaigns against large-scale plantations that push smallholders off their land (stefans_box, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Holding actors in agricultural investment chains to account

Insight, 22 October 2015

The 36-page print version and online Annual Report highlight IIED's wide range of work to ensure global fairness (Image: IIED/We Are Tangerine)

IIED's 2014/15 annual report: shaping a fairer future

News, 15 October 2015

Our successful animation was devised to popularise the Sustainable Development Goals. But that doesn't mean we didn't make mistakes (Image: IIED/Hands Up)

Global goals, global audience – how well did we score?

Insight, 18 September 2015

Reacting quickly to events, as these 100m runners are to the starting pistol at the 2012 Olympic Games, is just as essential in communications (Photo: Marc, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Why communication matters – and needs to be funded

Insight, 08 September 2015

Phnom Penh: activists, students, monks and community members deliver a petition to Cambodia's National Assembly calling for increased protection for the country's natural resources (Photo: Luon Sovath, Creative Commons via Flickr)

IIED to host webinar on promoting accountability in agricultural investment chains

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In 2018 IIED welcomed colleagues from Brazil, Cameroon, India, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe to Communications Learning Week (Photo: Anne Schulthess/IIED)

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Participants in IIED's 2015 Communications Learning Week provide feedback on their experiences (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)

Five reasons why you’ll regret missing out on IIED’s Communications Learning Week

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Sharing best practices on communicating research

Insight, 27 May 2015