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'Just give money' or 'just give work' to the poor?

A previous blogpost on Due South discussed the potential for cash transfers to contribute to climate change adaptation. But 'just giving money to the poor' is not the only social policy programmes being implemented in the developing world. In India, a different approach is being tried: rather than guarantee the poor an income, the government guarantees them paid work, via the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), which came into being in 2005.

14 January 2011 BlogPoverty, Governance

'Land grabbing' in the shadow of the law in Africa

13 October 2011 BlogLand acquisitions and rights
Testing the water in Kenya's Tana River watershed. The river's ecosystem is being affected by a range of factors. Public and private organisations are exploring ways to improve ecosystem management (Photo: Georgina Smith/CIAT, Creative Commons via Flickr)

'Sustainable development science' for transforming our world

IIED's Steve Bass proposes a 10-year review of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment as a guide for taking forward the SDGs
9 October 2015 BlogGovernance, Policy and planning, Sustainable markets
Richard Reeves uses Lego to illustrate in a video how inequality affects the American Dream, an example of Brookings' communications creativity (Image: Brookings Institution)

(Should) All systems go?

Is the desire to maximise impact through embedded systems cramping our communications creativity? Rosalind Goodrich discusses whether communicators need to relax and be more experimental and entrepreneurial

17 November 2017 BlogCommunication
Saleemul Huq, left, discusses 2015's big issues with negotiators and ambassadors from the Least Developed Countries in New York in early April (Photo: Claire Hatfield/IIED)

2015: a critical year for the Least Developed Countries

As four major strands of global decision-making come together in 2015, IIED senior fellow Saleemul Huq explains why they are so important for the world's least developed countries
17 April 2015 BlogClimate change
New Melones Lake, California, which is facing one of the most severe droughts on record with a state of emergency declared in January (Photo: Ben Amstutz, Flickr, via Creative Commons)

2016 – when global meets local in climate action

Building on the historic agreement forged in Paris, IIED's director Andrew Norton looks at the opportunities to ensure global agreements on the need for sustainable development reach the local level
4 January 2016 BlogClimate change, Policy and planning
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)

2019 – the way forward is a Green Decent Work Guarantee

How can the world achieve a step change in the fight against climate change during 2019? IIED director Andrew Norton looks at the issues and suggests that a radical approach may hold the solution

30 December 2018 BlogClimate change, Policy and planning, Sustainable markets
Flooding

2020 in review: climate impacts in the least developed countries

Evolving and overlapping global crises hit the world’s most vulnerable nations the hardest. Now, more than ever, world leaders must demonstrate solidarity and support with concrete action
8 April 2021 BlogClimate change
A flooded house

2020: the year to get money where it matters

More new initiatives, such as the Global Commission on Adaptation’s Locally Led Adaptation Action Track, are beginning to recognise the critical role of poor and marginalised people in tackling the climate emergency. From the Gobeshona conference, Andrew Norton and Saleemul Huq explain why a reimagined climate finance system that gets money into the hands of those people must be high on the 2020 ‘super year’ agenda
20 January 2020 BlogClimate change, Economics
Houses on stilts at the side of water, with trees behind

30x30 – a brave new dawn or a failure to protect people and nature?

The post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) negotiations, concluding early next year, include a plan to nearly double protected areas to 30% of the planet by 2030. Joe Eisen and Blaise Mudodosi discuss whether the 30x30 target offers a false solution to the biodiversity crisis
21 October 2021 BlogBiodiversity, Policy and planning

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