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A word cloud with words relevant to monitoring, evaluation and learning (Image: IIED)

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Monitoring and evaluation, and impact evaluation methods

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

Community-led mapping in the informal settlement of Mathare in Nairobi, Kenya, helps to record and reflect local people's needs and priorities (Photo: Sohel Ahmed)

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Q&A: Why do we need a philosophy for better evidence?

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

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

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Urban planning following humanitarian crises: Supporting local government to take the lead in the Philippines following super typhoon Haiyan

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Refugees in urban Egypt: it’s time to reassess UNHCR’s 2009 Policy on refugee protection and solutions in urban areas

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Evaluation: a missed opportunity in the SDGs’ first set of Voluntary National Reviews

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Murchison Falls National Park Community-Based Wildlife Crime Prevention Action Plan

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Understanding the full spectrum of risk in urban areas

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Urban risk in Freetown’s informal settlements: making the invisible visible

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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

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

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

Community-led mapping in the informal settlement of Mathare in Nairobi, Kenya, helps to record and reflect local people's needs and priorities (Photo: Sohel Ahmed)

Q&A: Why do we need a philosophy for better evidence?

Article, Mar 2017

A graph showing the average funding per project and/or programme within the 11 climate funds analysed between 2003 and November 2015, for total not local climate finance (Image: IIED)

Effective climate action needs more money directed to local levels

Press release, Mar 2017

A word cloud with words relevant to monitoring, evaluation and learning (Image: IIED)

Monitoring and evaluation, and impact evaluation methods

Article, Mar 2017

Colombia's government and left-wing insurgents sign a historic agreement ending 52 years of conflict. Some commentators suggest the peace process has opened the way for major progress on the SDGs (Photo: Gobierno de Chile, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)

SDGs: from adopted framework to political force for change

Blog, Feb 2017

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

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

Project, Jan 2017

Farmers analyse local maize varieties in the Karst mountains, Southwest China. IIED's work includes participatory plant breeding and community supported agriculture (Photo: IIED)

Can ecosystem-based adaptation help deliver the promise of Paris?

Blog, Jan 2017

What lies in store for the Earth in 2017? (Photo: Charles Strebor, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Fighting for the future – sustainable development and the battle for ideas in 2017

Blog, Jan 2017