Events

In addition to our flagship IIED Debates series of events, we regularly host or jointly organise with partners a range of in-person, online and hybrid events focusing on our latest work, including at global conferences. Register for forthcoming events and sign up to our events newsletter or see what you missed, including video recordings

Forthcoming events

Informal housing built on a hill

Cities for refugees: places of economic productivity, participation and wellbeing

Event on 06 December 2022

A series of rainbow flags outside a building.

Heteronormativity in the development sector: where are we now?

Event on 08 December 2022

Two women farmers use hoes to tend to their crops, with a hut in the background.

Where to find IIED and partners at CBD COP15: event listing

Event on 05 December 2022

Latest IIED Debates

This series of events offers insight into the world’s most pressing challenges and creates an opportunity to debate and explore solutions

A series of rainbow flags outside a building.

Heteronormativity in the development sector: where are we now?

Event on 08 December 2022

A view from on high of buildings on the foreground, with water and mountains in the distance.

Co-creating pathways to urban equality in a time of crisis

Event on 26 October 2022

Woman in a demonstration holds a sign that reads "Everybody vs racism"

A narrative for change: how can racism in storytelling impact development?

Event on 17 October 2022

Three women try to walk while almost completely submerged in flood water.

Addressing loss and damage: actions to respond, recover and reduce the risk

Event on 27 July 2022

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Related global conferences

See the events and work IIED and partners will share at this year's major summits

UN climate change conference (COP27)

A series of pages related to IIED's activities at the 2022 UNFCCC climate change summit in Sharm el-Sheikh

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UN biodiversity conference (COP15)

A series of pages related to IIED's activities at the 15th Convention on Biological Diversity conference (COP15)

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Barbara Ward lectures

An event featuring the current generation of outstanding women in development, in honour of IIED’s founder and inspirational speaker Barbara Ward.

Find out about past and future events

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Related events series

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IIED short seminars: challenges for a post-COVID-19 world

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

Communications Learning Weeks

Past events

Aerial view of flooded village and destroyed housing

Operationalising finance for loss and damage: examples from Africa and the Caribbean

Event on 10 November 2022

Where to find IIED and partners at COP27: event listing

Event on 06 November 2022

A view from on high of buildings on the foreground, with water and mountains in the distance.

Co-creating pathways to urban equality in a time of crisis

Event on 26 October 2022

Smiling women and men standing in a field looking at a mobile phone

Power of 'tech plus people' in early warning, early action and climate risk management

Event on 20 October 2022

Woman in a demonstration holds a sign that reads "Everybody vs racism"

A narrative for change: how can racism in storytelling impact development?

Event on 17 October 2022

Wildlige graze in the foreground of a rural scene with a road and trees and mountains in the background.

Les zones économiques spéciales : tendances globales et enjeux au Sénégal et à Madagascar

Event on 21 September 2022

Three women bend over and direct their picks and shovels to the ground.

IIED at Climate Week NYC 2022

Event on 21 September 2022

Wildlige graze in the foreground of a rural scene with a road and trees and mountains in the background.

Special Economic Zones: global trends and issues in Senegal and Madagascar

Event on 21 September 2022

View of a large hill and the sea on the left.

Debt for climate swaps: innovative financial instruments for public debt management

Event on 31 August 2022

A man walking through a field with a cow

CBA16: putting the LLA principles into practice

Event on 03 October 2022

Three women try to walk while almost completely submerged in flood water.

Addressing loss and damage: actions to respond, recover and reduce the risk

Event on 27 July 2022

Woman bends over a seedbed.

IIED at the 2022 Nature-based Solutions Conference

Event on 05 July 2022

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IIED at London Climate Action Week, June/July 2022

Event on 25 June 2022

A mountain gorilla crouches in the undergrowth.

Implementing biocredits: making the market work for nature and people

Event on 05 July 2022

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Enhanced Direct Access to climate finance: "I wish I knew that at the start!"

Event on 01 July 2022

A man paddles in a small boat close to the side of a river.

IIED at the UN Ocean Conference

Event on 27 June 2022

People building informal houses on stilts behind rising water.

IIED at WUF11

Event on 26 June 2022

Five young men sit on benches on a lawn outside a building. They are listening to two older men seated at a desk.

IIED at Stockholm+50

Event on 02 June 2022

Four women in a dry landscape watering small plants.

CBA16 and locally led adaptation: an interactive dialogue

Event on 30 June 2022

A bleak urban landscape. In the foreground, a painting of two hands reaching towards each other, painted in red and blue on a black background.

Mediation and development-related conflict report – launch event

Event on 07 June 2022

A group of men and women lean over a table and discuss the maps placed there.

Financing locally-led action for people, nature and climate in the Decade of Action

Event on 03 June 2022

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Climate change, health and informal workers – highlighting urban challenges and responses from India and Zimbabwe

Event on 08 June 2022

A woman in a crowded room raises her hand to speak.

Making finance flow for locally-led action in the Decade of Action

Event on 25 May 2022

Two women walk along a ridge alongside an expanse of water.

Why women are footing the bill for climate: lessons from Bangladesh

Event on 19 May 2022