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Diagram showing the traditional channels for delivering aid (Image: IIED)

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Money where it matters: local finance to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement

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

IIED aims to contribute to the achievement of change which benefits poor people and the environment. The institute's strategy for the next two years has been published (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)

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Engaging for change – refreshing our strategy for the next two years

A volcano can erupt with little warning, and have significant impact on its surrounding environment (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)

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Supporting organisations facing disruptive change

An image of women selling produce in an internally displaced persons camp, near Tawilla in North Darfur. The 'leave no one behind' agenda aims to ensure the poor are included in sustainable development (Photo: UNAMID, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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Unpacking what we mean by 'leave no one behind'

September 2015: on the eve of the United Nations summit to agree the 2030 Agenda, a film introducing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals is projected onto the UN headquarters building (Photo: UN Photo/Cia Pak)

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Effective evaluation for the Sustainable Development Goals

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Local funds for local development

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Towards more effective humanitarian response in urban areas

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Developing Myanmar’s National Climate Change Policy

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Syrian health workers in Lebanon: supporting an informal workforce in crisis

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Global Trends in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM): A review of key numbers and issues

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Global Trends in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM): A review of key numbers and issues

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Ministerial-level consultations on the Myanmar National Climate Policy, Nay Pyi Taw (Photo: Achala Abeysinghe/IIED)

Developing Myanmar’s national climate change policy

Project, Apr 2018

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

IIED senior researcher Susannah Fisher conducts research in Gorakhpur in India (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)

Excellent research at IIED: informed and engaged for impact

Page, Mar 2018

The Earth is reflected in a drop of water on a leaf (Photo: Juan Horna, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Changing landscapes: key issues for action on sustainable development in 2018

Blog, Jan 2018

Nazhat Shameem Khan, Fiji's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and chief COP23 negotiator, addresses the LDC Group and chair Gebru Jember Endalew. IIED principal researcher Achala Abeysinghe, who provides legal support to the LDC Group chair, is pictured right (Photo: Collin Beck)

LDCs approach Fiji COP with high expectations

Blog, Nov 2017

IIED aims to contribute to the achievement of change which benefits poor people and the environment. The institute's strategy for the next two years has been published (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)

Engaging for change – refreshing our strategy for the next two years

Blog, Aug 2017

A volcano can erupt with little warning, and have significant impact on its surrounding environment (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)

Supporting organisations facing disruptive change

Project, Jul 2017

2017: pastoralists in Isiolo county in Kenya are digging for water in dried-up river beds. Agricultural insurance schemes can help pastoralists and farmers be more resilient to climate shocks (Photo: Denis Onyodi/KRCS)

Insuring against climate risk in Kenya

Blog, Jun 2017

A street in Beirut.

Stronger Cities Initiative

Article, May 2017

Sustainable development in the UK – an issue for party manifestos?

Blog, May 2017

IIED senior associate Halina Ward, centre, at the Bond session on disruption and resilience in the global South

Disruption and resilience in the global South

Article, Mar 2017