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People from villagers of Wakesi village, Nyanza Province, Kenya walk down a dirt road (Photo: Robin Wyatt)

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Independent Research Forum (IRF): supporting change for a sustainable future

A traditional farmer in the Eastern Himalaya where indigenous communities use seed networks to protect their knowledge. Research should not publish details of traditional knowledge that could be used commercially without equitable benefit-sharing (Photo: Ruchi Pant/Ecoserve)

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Striving for the highest standards in research ethics

From decentralised finance to legal tools, this map showing real examples of innovative governance from around the world highlights seven tried-and-tested methods of empowering local institutions (Image: IIED)

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Mapping innovative governance for sustainable development

A water connection project built to link the Lobé river to the Kribi harbour, South Region, Cameroon (Photo: Thierry Berger)

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LandCam: securing land and resource rights and improving governance in Cameroon

In 2010 a catastrophic earthquake hit Haiti. Six years later, there has been progress in rebuilding, but much remains to be done (Photo: iolanda, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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Q&A: LDC Independent Expert Group chair on the SDGs and tackling inequality

IIED's three-and-a-half minute film to communicate the ambitions and universal reach of the SDGs had been viewed almost 20,000 times by February 2017 (Image: IIED/Hands Up)

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IIED's work on the post-2015 agenda

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Equity and benefit sharing from marine genetic resources in areas beyond national jurisdiction

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Les pratiques endogènes de protection des enfants concernés par la mobilité — le contexte d’urgence à Gao et Tombouctou au Mali

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Governance, equity and the greenlist

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Understanding and assessing equity in protected area conservation: a matter of governance, rights, social impacts and human wellbeing

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China in Africa – exploring investment in the forests

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China in Africa – exploring investment in the forests (Chinese version)

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Cecilia Silva and Carla Silva Pompilio from Angola, browsing through ‘Becoming a UNFCCC delegate’, Marrakech, November 2017 (Photo: Janna Tenzing/IIED)

Building the capacity of LDCs to engage in the UNFCCC negotiations

Project, Mar 2018

UNFCCC negotiations session, Bonn, May 2017 (Photo Janna Tenzing/IIED)

Facilitating greater representation of LDCs in the UNFCCC process

Project, Mar 2018

In Tanzania, former artisanal mining licensees Mwanahamisi Mzalendo and Mwanamkasi Rasi are among entreprenurial women who have pooled their resources to create a quarrying business. They control the day-to-day running of the quarry, including supervising labourers, dealing with the local authorities, and taking care of the site's environmental footprint (Photo: Magali Rochat/IIED)

Q&A: Women are driving the change we need

Article, Mar 2018

A discussion on protected area governance in a stakeholder workshop with a community on the edge of Lake Mburo National Park, Uganda (Image: Francesca Brooker/IIED)

Q&A: How can we achieve 'fairer conservation'?

Article, Feb 2018

People from villagers of Wakesi village, Nyanza Province, Kenya walk down a dirt road (Photo: Robin Wyatt)

Independent Research Forum (IRF): supporting change for a sustainable future

Article, Jun 2017

A traditional farmer in the Eastern Himalaya where indigenous communities use seed networks to protect their knowledge. Research should not publish details of traditional knowledge that could be used commercially without equitable benefit-sharing (Photo: Ruchi Pant/Ecoserve)

Striving for the highest standards in research ethics

Blog, Jun 2017

Investigating land tenure issues among indigenous landholders and sharecroppers in Ghana. Working with vulnerable communities makes ethical considerations particularly important (Photo: Emily Polack/IIED)

Our commitment to integrity and ethics in research

Page, Jun 2017

A water connection project built to link the Lobé river to the Kribi harbour, South Region, Cameroon (Photo: Thierry Berger)

LandCam: securing land and resource rights and improving governance in Cameroon

Project, May 2017

IIED's three-and-a-half minute film to communicate the ambitions and universal reach of the SDGs had been viewed almost 20,000 times by February 2017 (Image: IIED/Hands Up)

IIED's work on the post-2015 agenda

Article, Feb 2017

Around 80 per cent of schools in Haiti are privately run, and the good ones too expensive for children from poor areas like Cité Soleil (Photo: Breezy Baldwiin, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Ending endemic violence through education in Cité Soleil

Blog, Jun 2016

In 2010 a catastrophic earthquake hit Haiti. Six years later, there has been progress in rebuilding, but much remains to be done (Photo: iolanda, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Q&A: LDC Independent Expert Group chair on the SDGs and tackling inequality

Article, Jun 2016

An image of villagers in a remote village in northern Bangladesh proudly displaying their first solar panel, purchased with a micro loan. Bangladesh aspires to be one of the world's largest solar providers (Photo: ILO in Asia and the Pacific, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Q&A: A shift in mindset for the LDCs

Article, Jun 2016