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Biodiversity Jenga. Photo: Martin Sharman

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Introduction to biodiversity conservation and livelihoods

Watch the Karachi Rising film

Blog

The houses that Karachi's poor want

Identifying social impacts at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya (Photo: Phil Franks/IIED)

Project

Assessing social impacts of protected areas

A family living in a cemetery in Cebu City, the Philippines. A lack of affordable housing has led some 100 families to set up home among the mausoleums (Photo: Karl Fluch, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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Who can we trust to measure urban poverty?

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Southwest Uganda (Photo: Mariel Harrison)Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in southwest Uganda (Photo: Mariel Harrison)

Article

Taking a more rigorous approach to evaluation

New tools can measure the benefits of ecosystems such as coastal mangrove forests, such as this one in Mexico. Mangroves provide protection from coastal flooding and erosion, as well as nutrition for marine life (Photo: Peyri Herrera, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Blog

Action to protect nature and tackle poverty gathers momentum

Urban poverty

Addressing the root causes of poverty and improving access to basic needs

About the architecture of aid

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About the architecture of aid

Langrug informal settlement, South Africa, May 2014 (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)

Project

Introduction to urban poverty

A tanker delivers water to residents in Retiro, a shanty town in Buenos Aires (Photo: Mark Edwards)

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Urban water and sanitation

Publications

G04157

Influencing policy change in Uganda: An impact evaluation of the Uganda Poverty and Conservation Learning Group's work

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Policy Workshop: Conditional transfers for poverty reduction and ecosystem management

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Who wants what? Assessing the supply and demand for locally produced tourism services around Bwindi Forest, Uganda

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Muungano nguvu yetu (unity is strength): 20 years of the Kenyan federation of slum dwellers

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Pro-poor responses to wildlife crime in Uganda: Research results workshop

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Accra statement on mainstreaming biodiversity in practice

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A family living in a cemetery in Cebu City, the Philippines. A lack of affordable housing has led some 100 families to set up home among the mausoleums (Photo: Karl Fluch, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Who can we trust to measure urban poverty?

Blog, Jun 2017

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Southwest Uganda (Photo: Mariel Harrison)Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in southwest Uganda (Photo: Mariel Harrison)

Taking a more rigorous approach to evaluation

Article, May 2017

New tools can measure the benefits of ecosystems such as coastal mangrove forests, such as this one in Mexico. Mangroves provide protection from coastal flooding and erosion, as well as nutrition for marine life (Photo: Peyri Herrera, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Action to protect nature and tackle poverty gathers momentum

Blog, Nov 2016

Old Indonesia coins. In Indonesia, like the UK, the income of the poorest 40 per cent has to grow at twice the rate of the national average if the income gap is to stay the same (Photo: Anis Eka, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

How serious are the SDGs about tackling inequality?

Blog, Oct 2016

Washing in Kolkata. Urban poor groups must engage with city government and utility companies in order to become drivers for change (Photo: Wolfgang Sterneck, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Can global funds be accountable at the local level?

Blog, Aug 2016

Black grouse fight in Vaala, Finland. The country is committed to protecting biodiversity under its implementation of the sustainable development goals (Photo: Markus Varesvuo/NPL/Barcroft)

Will the UK be left behind on sustainable development?

Blog, Jul 2016

Eight development experts, including Oxfam GB's Irene Guijt, were interviewed about reimagining development for the Least Developed Countries (Image: IIED)

How are the LDCs defining a new sustainable development agenda?

News, Jul 2016

Women learning how to install and maintain solar home systems in the rural town of Bogra, northern Bangladesh (Photo: ILO, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Five challenges for Least Developed Countries in the post-2015 era

Blog, Jun 2016

Six representatives of developing country governments – Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Mozambique, Nepal and the Philippines – shared their experiences of rolling out the sustainable development agenda at the 21st Poverty Environment Partnership meeting (Image: IIED)

Country progress on putting the sustainable development goals into action

Blog, Jun 2016

A mountain gorilla in Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park (Photo: Francesco Veronesi, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Local economic development through gorilla tourism

Project, May 2016

Seeds collected from a farm in Chiapas, Mexico, for replanting and use in traditional medicine. (Photo: Ina Porras)

Conditional transfers for poverty reduction and ecosystem management

Project, Apr 2016

Tom Pye helped redesign the Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG) newsletter, a monthly bulletin for people working on biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation (Image: PCLG)

A valuable learning experience

Blog, Apr 2016