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Stronger Cities Initiative

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

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Rethinking post-disaster relocation in urban India

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Urban ARK 7: Applying multiple methods to understand and address urban risk

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The 2030 Agenda and evaluation: opportunities and challenges for parliamentarians

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Women and children fleeing Boko Haram: their experiences in Nigerian cities

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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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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

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 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