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Principles for locally-led adaptation

Eight principles for locally-led adaptation have been developed to help ensure that local communities are empowered to lead sustainable and effective adaptation to climate change at the local level. IIED is among almost 70 governments, leading global institutions and local and international NGOs that have already endorsed these principles and are advocating their endorsement by others
21 January 2021ArticleClimate change, Poverty

Monitoring and evaluation for non-professionals

Using volunteers to collect important data for monitoring and evaluation is a growing phenomenon. Technology has made it easier and cheaper than ever before. But it can have drawbacks. How can mistakes and unintended biases be avoided?

March 2019PublicationPoverty, Biodiversity

Monitoring and evaluation for non-professionals

Using volunteers to collect important data for monitoring and evaluation is a growing phenomenon. Technology has made it easier and cheaper than ever before. But it can have drawbacks. How can mistakes and unintended biases be avoided?

March 2019PublicationPoverty, Biodiversity
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

Evaluation researcher Barbara Befani explains how a different methodological approach helped IIED evaluate whether the Uganda Poverty and Conservation Learning Group had influenced policy

18 May 2017ArticleMonitoring, evaluation and learning, Poverty
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?

Is it possible for global funds to be accountable to local communities – especially those whose needs the funds should address?
9 August 2016 BlogPoverty, Urban
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?

IIED talks to development experts from around the globe to find out how the Least Developed Countries are working to define new ways forward for sustainable development

8 July 2016NewsClimate change, Policy and planning, Poverty
The mountain gorilla is among the endangered species at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, which was the focus of a a recent radio show series on conservation efforts (Photo: Dilys Roe/IIED)

Broadcasting to Bwindi

What happened when a project to get the message out on the need to balance conservation efforts with reducing poverty in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda, took to the airwaves?
28 July 2015 BlogBiodiversity, Poverty
Ladeh Panjang Wetlands. Photo: Luke Mackin

Building evidence on how biodiversity affects poverty

There is an explicit assumption that reducing the rate of biodiversity loss can help in efforts to tackle global poverty. But the evidence for this assumption is surprisingly weak. This project aims to review the existing evidence base, identify knowledge gaps and make evidence more widely available.

22 June 2015ProjectBiodiversity, Poverty
Modern energy services are crucial to economic development. In Afghanistan, less than 10 per cent of the population has access to the electricity grid. French NGO GERES has been working to introduce low-cost passive solar building designs, reducing fuel poverty (Photo: Oriane Zera, GERES, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Facing up to the awkward realities of the post-2015 agenda

The post-2015 sustainable development agenda promises a better future – but only if some awkward realities are confronted
28 January 2015 BlogPolicy and planning, Poverty
Identifying social impacts at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya

Assessing social impacts of protected and conserved areas (SAPA)

IIED has developed and is now rolling out a relatively simple, low-cost tool for assessing the positive and negative social impacts of protected or conserved areas
16 August 2013ProjectBiodiversity, Monitoring, evaluation and learning, Poverty