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Villagers in India dig out a silted-up water tank as part of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Act (Photo: McKay Savage, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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2019 – the way forward is a Green Decent Work Guarantee

The front cover of the book ‘Climate Action with Tomorrow in Mind: Expert Perspectives on Long-term Climate and Development Strategies’

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Book summary: Climate Action with Tomorrow in Mind – Expert Perspectives on Long-term Climate and Development Strategies

A daily savings book: local savings groups collect small payments from slum dwellers which can be leveraged to support slum upgrading projects (Photo: SDI, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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Transforming aid for urban areas

A carpenter bee

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Biodiversity on the brink: local people must shape nature’s new deal

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

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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Evaluating sustainable development: how the 2030 Agenda can help

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Changement radical pour réduire la déforestation en RDC

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Transformative change to reduce deforestation in DRC

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LDC NDCs: adaptation priorities and gaps to address

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LDCs, negotiations and the climate crisis: Will the poorest countries benefit from the COP24 climate package?

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From monitoring goals to systems-informed evaluation: insights from SDG14

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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

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

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

A black swan (Photo: Pete Jordan, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Civil society organisations in the global South and disruptive change: implications for funders

Blog, Dec 2016

The cover of Vision 2030 Jamaica

One people, one vision

Blog, Dec 2016