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IIED executive director Tom Mitchell speaking during the opening plenary session of the London Climate Resilience Finance Summit 2026

Preparing for extreme weather shocks a huge opportunity, and the right thing to do

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How IIED helps young housing activists be heard

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Manifesto for a thriving world

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People sit outside under a canopy behind tables with the words "reuse, recycle and reduce".

Youth strategies from informal settlements: harnessing civic media to drive change around urban governance and housing

Camila Cociña and Alexandre Apsan Frediani
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REDAA impact strategy

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Facilitating spaces of association for youth citizenship in India

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Promoting youth participation in urban governance in Nepal

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Making private digital extension services work for Uganda’s smallholders

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20:20 vision

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The first 10 years (1971-81)

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Race and racism audit recommendations 2024/25 update

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Safeguarding policy

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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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Men in Cote d'Ivoire listen to a radio.

Three things that stop development organisations being agents of change

Insight, 23 November 2012

CCAFS, together with partners, is trying to develop new ways to communicate climate change adaptation. Photo: N. Palmer (CIAT)

New ways to communicate climate change and adaptation - is it time for something “loopy”?

Insight, 19 October 2012

A man leads a herd of camels with the sun setting behind them.

What’s in a narrative? In policy, everything or nothing

Insight, 28 September 2012

A forested area in Mondulkiri province, eastern Cambodia that is being cut down and burned. Few trees remain standing in the picture.

Journalists are dying – literally — to tell stories of environmental plunder

Insight, 19 September 2012

Christiana Figueres is executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. She used her appearance at the 2012 Barbara Ward Lecture to call for an "energy revolution"

2012 Barbara Ward Lecture: Christiana Figueres calls for an "energy revolution"

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Corporates could teach NGOs a thing or two about sustainability

Insight, 27 June 2012

Dice used in a game at the 6th international conference on CBA.

Knowledge is power in this game of chance (called life)

Insight, 22 April 2012

In Durban, a day to focus on climate communication

News, 19 December 2011

Men practice an oral testimony interview during workshops in Karachi, Pakistan (see Article 4 of PLA 63) Photo credit: Panos, London

Telling stories: the uses and misuses of communicating for change

Insight, 06 December 2011

IIED at 40 – mature, confident and fitter than ever

Insight, 21 October 2011