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Growing your internal finance: a toolkit to guide forest and farm producer organisations
Publication, 14 July 2026
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Root Capital: partnering with small and growing agribusinesses to address social and environmental challenges
… Root Capital invests in the growth and resilience of agricultural enterprises … to enterprises with aligned vision  Root Capital combines loaning financial capital with providing customised training in financial management, governance, agronomy and climate resilience, … Root Capital: partnering with small and growing agribusinesses to address …
Article, 31 May 2024
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Breaking down siloes: reforming financing and trade for climate adaptation in LDCs
… space and dwindling international aid budgets. External debt, high capital costs and highly intermediated financing mechanisms — where … and trade must evolve to address these challenges. International financial architecture reforms should integrate debt relief, de-risk … It draws on recent dialogues with, and insights from, policymakers, financial institutions and philanthropic leaders. …
Publication, 09 October 2025
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Critical minerals: reflections on the G20 Leaders’ Summit
… Since the 2008 financial crisis, the G20 has established itself as a central forum for … projects and using sovereign wealth funds to mobilise patient capital for long-term economic transformation.  Mindful of the …
Insight, 02 December 2025
People on the busy street of Nairobi, selling goods on tables set at the edge of a road.
Nairobi to launch pioneering refugee integration strategy
… 13.2% of all refugees and asylum seekers in Kenya live in its capital city, Nairobi. Recent policy shifts indicate a recognition of … guaranteeing their freedom of movement, right to work and access to financial services, among other rights. However, it leaves the … access for refugees to health services, educational services, financial services and help with documentation and registration.   It …
News, 23 April 2025
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Financial summary 2019
… Our statement of financial activities demonstrates a stable performance in a challenging … Despite the tough operating environment IIED has improved its financial resilience through: Continued efficiencies in the core … This increase follows a £172,000 reduction in the Building and Capital Fund reserve, which is designated to cover the anticipated cost …
Page, 25 October 2019
Community leaders in the Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia planning with staff from the Namibia Housing Action Group (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
Financial inequalities; defining our age
… Ten years ago the world was rocked by financial crisis. Governments and international institutions spent huge … crash, commentators are reviewing the economy and concluding that the financial crisis is over.  But it is clear that the crisis is not over … formal finance systems and informal livelihoods, helping to protect capital and households. Households that fail to satisfy the requirements …
Insight, 22 August 2017
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Producer organisations offer huge potential for delivering nature and climate finance
… funding gap by mobilising internally generated finance to provide financial services to their members.  Forest and farm producers often … Many producer organisations promote savings groups and manage financial cooperatives to offer financial services to their members. … and Brazil have set up financial services for their members. The capital managed by these FFPOs ranges from US$840 to $4.7 billion. …
News, 04 April 2024
An aerial view of Entebbe airport. The airport is located on the shores of Lake Victoria, close to numerous environmentally sensitive wetland areas (Photo: Niranjanoak, Creative Commons via Wikipedia)
Environment or the economy? How Uganda uses natural capital accounts in policymaking
… supported their decision?  Did they have a full set of natural capital data showing the contribution the wetlands made to the economy … way in going beyond measuring wealth by GDP alone to collect natural capital data that give a much truer picture of the contribution that … tourism. There have to be policies that do not consider short-term financial gain alone. Challenging vested interests and weighing up …
Insight, 09 January 2019
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Where’s the capital for homegrown companies? Why energy access investments in Kenya need to go local
… innovation. That is why more needs to be done to align investors and capital markets with Kenyan investment opportunities.   What are the … and few connections to investor networks. An often-cited Village Capital (PDF) report highlights the fact that most of the early-stage … while attracting bigger investments and bundling in the important non-financial functions, such as market-building activities, standards and …
Insight, 29 December 2020