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Woman farmer checking tomatoes on her farm in Uganda. She is wearing a bright pink top and a skirt.
How hidden barriers exclude marginalised groups from creating and sharing knowledge, critical for climate adaptation
… We often talk about inclusion as though it’s simply a matter of inviting everyone to … This includes ensuring the rich local and traditional knowledge about climate adaptation, held within local communities, is shared and … to pay for a bus ticket or accommodation up front. We hadn’t thought about that. Other barriers were about   timing. Our event was in the …
Insight, 03 September 2025
Gatekeeper series: Local organization Profiles
… Introduction About the Gatekeeper series   GK137: Understanding and Supporting the … destructive planning process. It created an information base about Karachi’s development that informs a network of professionals and … Gatekeeper series: Local organization Profiles …
Article, 01 April 2010
The UN estimates that a million Somalis were displaced during 2017. Many move to informal settlements on the fringes of the capital, Mogadishu (Photo: AMISOM Public Information via Wikimedia Commons)
Providing shelter in East African cities: what works?
… How do informal settlements come about in a city, and why do they form where they do? What other housing … to scale them up. Stay tuned over the next two years to hear about what we find, and what it means for ensuring improved shelter …
Insight, 22 February 2018
Three women, one wearing a mask, the other two smiling and clapping, sit at a raised desk in front of an audience
In or out! Why balanced panels matter
… are informed by diverse views and experiences. So, what can you do about it? As researchers, we all have a responsibility to 'break the … accountability is important. For years, we have theorised about inequality and under-representation. And although organisations … for inclusion, with social movements adopting the slogan ‘Nothing about us, without us’. Including a person from the global South, a …
Insight, 29 April 2022
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Media perceptions and portrayals of pastoralists in Kenya, India and China
… that paint pastoralism as something bad that needs to change. This Gatekeeper paper explores how the media portrays pastoralism. To do so, we analysed the content of newspaper articles about pastoralists in Kenya, China and India, and also invited …
Publication, 01 April 2013
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Local organizations: introduction
… Profiles: Gatekeeper series About the Gatekeeper series The role of local organizations is often overlooked. … To date, a set of twelve profiles has been published in IIED’s Gatekeeper series . The journal Environment and Urbanization has also …
Article, 01 April 2010
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Global Restructuring, Agri-Food Systems and Livelihoods
… This 100th issue of the Gatekeeper series takes stock of the state of the world’s agri-food … improve knowledge of the dynamics of local food systems; how to bring about democratic change in those systems; how to increase market power …
Publication, 01 January 2001
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January 2004 Contents 1. Finding Common Ground: Indigenous peoples and their association with the mining sector. By the Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development project 2. What Are We Learning from Experiences with
… 120 ­ Community-based Land Tenure Management. Questions and answers about ... …
Publication, 01 January 2004
Mogadishu attracts people from all over the country, making it the second-fastest growing city in the world, with a 4% annual rate of urbanisation growth (Photo: Baron Reznik, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The challenge of finding money to build shelter in Mogadishu’s informal settlements
… are to break out of the poverty cycle. Further reading Read more about Tana’s work with informal settlements in Mogadishu and Somalia: …
Insight, 28 January 2019
Guns handed in at the start of a disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration programme run by the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (Photo: Sophia Paris/UN Photo, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: How to negotiate safe access to gang-ruled neighbourhoods in areas of urban crises
… What's your journal article about?  My article investigates how humanitarian and development actors … with gangs as an end rather than a means. They can act as a gatekeeper for other international agencies simply wanting to implement …
Article, 15 November 2017