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Buenos Aires, Argentina: luxury skyscrapers contrast with a shanty town of small brick dwellings with aluminium roofs. It is estimated that 10 per cent of the city's population lives in informal settlements (Photo: Mark Edwards/IIED)
Facing an increasingly urban world
Insight, 13 May 2016
A man transports firewood on a cart. Firewood is the primary fuel for most rural households in Myanmar. It is time consuming and expensive and there are concerns about the health impacts of indoor pollution (Photo: Soneva Foundation, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Energy poverty in Myanmar: only 34% of the population have grid quality electricity
News, 10 May 2016
An image showing two men on the roof of a school in Zambia carrying out a macrosolar installation. Sustainable energy solutions for Least Developed Countries were discussed at the event in London (Photo: Steve Woodward)
Reimagining development in the LDCs: what role for the SDGs?
Event, 13 June 2016
An image showing a group of women from Tongaradha village, Bangladesh, who saved more than 2,000 hectares of land and 500 households from flooding by rebuilding a 12km embankment and a 5km road. GCF money should be used for such innovative, community-driven projects in poor countries that will drive long-term change (Photo: WFP/Rein Skullerud, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Expediting direct access to the GCF for least developed countries
Insight, 09 May 2016
An image of an open sewer in the Kibera informal settlement, in Nairobi, Kenya, Refugees in such informal settlements face even more challenges than existing habitatants to access to services, such as language barriers (Photo: Eoghan Rice/Trócaire)
Revealing the hidden refugees in African cities
Insight, 06 May 2016
An image of Mohammad Sayedul Haque, the Bangladesh Minister of Fisheries and Livestock alongside a table around which sit participants from Bangladesh, Myanmar and India as they discuss sustainable hilsa fishery management (Photo: Essam Yassin Mohammed/IIED)
Scientists call for international collaboration to safeguard hilsa fish stocks
News, 06 May 2016
An image of a hilsa fish caught in a net. More than 90 per cent of the global catch of hilsa is shared between neighbouring countries Bangladesh, Myanmar and India (Photo: BBC World Service Bangladesh Boat, Creative Common, via Flickr)
Scientists from Bangladesh, India and Myanmar are calling on their countries to develop a shared plan for sustainably managing the hilsa fishery
News, 05 May 2016
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Karonga Town: Growth and Risk Profile
Publication, 01 May 2016
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CBA10 proceedings: enhancing urban community resilience
Publication, 01 May 2016
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Food consumption, urbanisation and rural transformation: the trade dimensions
Publication, 01 May 2016