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Panel discussion at the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels. Four speakers are sitting on chairs behind a table on a podium with a big blue screen behind while the audience is sitting on chairs and listening.
Santa Marta conference highlights legal barriers to the energy transition
Insight, 18 May 2026
Group of ASOM women members holding plants in a field, smiling at the camera.
Land, climate and justice: grassroots women at the Global Land Forum
… responses to these challenges.  A collaborative effort grounded in community realities Each case study is grounded in the knowledge and … – using legal strategies, participatory governance and women-led initiatives to assert their rights and adapt to climate and economic …
Insight, 11 June 2025
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Community-led approaches to tackling illegal wildlife trade. Case studies from Latin America
Publication, 01 September 2019
Man crouching next to a crop bed.
Significant new support for locally led adaptation principles
News, 08 November 2021
A group of people pointing to a bucket
Emerging lessons from community-led COVID-19 responses in urban areas
… for voices from the global South. Here Alice Sverdlik looks at how community organisations are responding to COVID-19. Community-based … Tim Ndezi, from the Centre for Community Initiatives (CCI), describes intiatives to combat COVID-19 in informal … channel   Even when governments seek to address COVID-19, community-led organisations can complement these initiatives and reach vulnerable …
Article, 25 June 2020
Women sitting down in a circle. One of them is holding a laptop and talking.
Announcing the Saleemul Huq Memorial Scholarship finalists and C-CIQ toolkit launch
Event, 09 September 2024
Aerial view on Sao Paulo showing different types of housing like sky scrappers and slums.
SECURe: Strengthening and Enhancing Contextual Urban Resilience
Project, 01 April 2025
Three people with a pile of vicuña wool
Who’s listening? Community voices on illegal wildlife trade
… IWT. Despite their commitments, countries have been slow to promote community-based approaches as a key part of their strategy to tackle … on the IWT commitments their countries had made. This was the IIED-led LeAP: Learning and Action Platform for Community Engagement Against … event presented many great examples of successful Latin American initiatives that engage communities in tackling IWT. For example, …
Insight, 06 November 2019
A group of women gather round the entrance to a building.
The health, wellbeing and climate benefits of slum upgrading
… health services and political and social inclusion.  But upgrading initiatives have varied widely and may struggle to achieve these … to foster health and climate-resilient development. Supporting community-led processes Upgrading has often been driven by communities, and much …
Article, 09 June 2022
Table with coloured papers and someone writing on a notebook
Knowledge in action for urban equality
… The 'Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality’ (KNOW) programme was led by  The Bartlett Development Planning Unit  of UCL and brought …  helped to investigate the role of learning platforms at the city and community level, and explored ways to advance participatory informal … of Havana (CUJAE)  to explore the potentials of university-led initiatives in brokering more equitable relationships between …
Project, 28 September 2021