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Aerial view of informal housing.
Data to drive informal settlement upgrading. Who generates it – and who owns it?
Insight, 03 March 2022
A group of people line up in front of a mountain background.
Building green and inclusive energy
… Energy Change Lab In 2015, IIED and Hivos – sharing a common goal to transform energy systems so these are greener and people-centred , … understand whether providing independent data on electricity quality could help customers hold service providers accountable. Examining the … Catalysing productive uses of energy (PUE) often requires special design measures to overcome barriers such as gaps in local people’s …
Project, 01 October 2020
People participating in a workshop.
Development and Climate Days 2020
… innovation and implementation of ‘adaptation technologies’ could improve the impact of national policy and planning. The discussion … consequences of climate change and have, for years, been developing innovative strategies and solutions to address these challenges. In … by: Youth Climate Lab (YCL), IIED  Speakers:  Shalaka Jadhav, design and community manager, Youth Climate Lab; Dominique Souris, …
Event, 02 December 2020
Wind farm outside Adigrat, northern Ethiopia.
Scaling up renewable technologies: incremental or transformational change?
Insight, 08 July 2013
Woman walking through a vegetable garden. A pond behind her.
D&C Days 2021: five pathways for adaptation, resilience and action
Article, 12 November 2021
Informal settlements like this one in Jakarta often lack clean water supplies, waste collection or decent housing. There is an urgent need for investment in basic services and infrastructure (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)
Are impact investors missing a trick by overlooking local communities?
… to get the services they need: they know their city, they know how to design infrastructure that works and they know where the gaps are in … are often absent in informal communities.    Engaging with residents could solve many problems. Locals can help prospective investors … Impact investors specialise in navigating such spaces: forging innovative partnerships, collecting evidence and lessons learnt on …
Insight, 07 September 2017
Covers of best publications 2021.
IIED's best of 2021: publications
… South.   Local governments and grassroots organisations have led urban responses that have been pivotal in shaping the pandemic’s … revenue likely to exceed 30% in a third of low-income countries. This could reduce their ability to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, and to … debt: lessons from HIPC for COVID, climate and nature’ in July and ‘Innovative financing for Africa: harnessing debt for climate and nature’ …
Article, 17 December 2021
Covers of top publications of 2020.
IIED's best of 2020: publications
… for assessing the extent to which energy transition measures could result in ISDS claims; explores the extent to which treaties with … the frontlines of climate impacts, are pioneering large-scale and innovative adaptation responses. This 29-page issue paper published in … led by the University of Manchester, which is working to improve the design, selection and operation of dams to support sustainable …
Article, 23 December 2020
A farmer in Tattaguine, Senegal benefits from an irrigation project. IIED is advocating for the Green Climate Fund to speed up the process of getting finance to local levels, those who need it most (Photo: Ryan Kendrick Smith, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Q&A: a message to the Green Climate Fund board
… has promised a 'paradigm shift' by investing in more ambitious and innovative climate adaptation and mitigation activities. What should … vision and enhanced direct access  – Developing countries must design a nationally driven, programmatic approach – and avoid the … to finance for climate change such as launching green bonds. The GCF could help such mechanisms get off the ground. There are concerns that …
Article, 10 October 2016
An interactive data visual that illustrates the scale and speed of urban transformation that research by IIED has sought to document and describe
IIED's best of 2014: multimedia
… and  to engage and appeal to our audiences,  sometimes we need to use innovative methods of communication. I n the last year we've embraced … this interactive data visual  that illustrates the scale and speed of urban transformation and exposes patterns that couldn't otherwise be … IIED principal researcher Gordon McGranahan explaining what users could see as he manipulated the data. Users could watch the countries …
Insight, 12 January 2015