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The UN poster showing all 17 sustainable development goals (Image: UN photo)

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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): IIED and the new global agenda on sustainable development

Negotiators, including representatives of the Least Developed Countries, at the UNFCCC conference centre in Bonn in January 2014 (Photo: IIED)

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Helping vulnerable nations engage in climate diplomacy

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

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

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Our commitment to integrity and ethics in research

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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Governação das Florestas de Moçambique. Opções para a promoção de sustentabilidade florestal entre comerciantes chineses e operadores moçambicanos.

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Trilateral cooperation in agriculture: Achievements and lessons from AgriTT

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Whistleblowing policy

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Boosting governance in Mozambique’s forests. Options for more sustainable forestry among Chinese timber traders and Mozambican partners

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Team profile: Water infrastructure, Natural Resources Group

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Social assessment for protected areas

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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

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

South Africa President Jacob Zuma speaks to China counterpart Xi Jinping at the FOCAC summit in Sandton, Johannesburg in 2015. China is increasingly influential in Africa (Photo: GCIS/GovernmentZA, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

CSR practices of Chinese businesses in the global South

Blog, Mar 2016

The UN poster showing all 17 sustainable development goals (Image: UN photo)

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): IIED and the new global agenda on sustainable development

Article, Mar 2016

Physical barriers have been installed around Karachi to protect the city from violent conflict, but their impacts have been publically disruptive and socially divisive (Photo: Noman Ahmed and colleagues)

Barricading Karachi: how private security contributes to dividing the city

Blog, Dec 2015

A new map produced by IIED shows seven types of innovative governance. Click on the image to see the map (Image: IIED)

Driving change by supporting action at the local level

Blog, Nov 2015

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)

Mapping innovative governance for sustainable development

Article, Nov 2015