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Local forest workers in Cambodia, one of the regions studied for a new report (Photo: Frontier Cambodia Forest via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Four ways to support locally controlled forestry and benefit people and the planet
… our changing climate," says Duncan Macqueen, principal researcher in IIED's Forest Team and co-author of the report. "However, the support … will be launched on 20 May at the British Academy, during a meeting about the challenges and opportunities that efforts to regulate the … Jeffrey Campbell ([email protected]) More information about the Chatham House/Rights and Resources Initiative meeting at the …
News, 19 May 2014
Officials on a climate finance course meet farmers in Bangladesh to learn about the benefits of solar irrigation pumps (Photo: ICCCAD, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Climate finance for those who need it most
Article, 13 May 2016
Participants in IIED's 2015 Communications Learning Week join in a session on audience mapping (Photo: Kate Wilson/IIED)
Effective policy influence with a four-point plan
… see my colleague Ced Hesse . He and many other of our researchers in IIED spend most of their time working in country with our partners.  … management and outreach) for the Poverty Environment Initiative , about examples and opportunities that social media provide for social … strategies can ensure we do more with less. Liz Carlile (liz.carlile@iied.org) is IIED's director of communications. …
Insight, 20 May 2015
A Chinese journalist interviews fellow journalists in Kenya (Photo: YiDe Media)
China-Africa relations: Fresh perspectives from Chinese journalists on environmental challenges
… To help close these knowledge gaps, IIED sponsored five Chinese journalists' travel to Kenya in February … out" to witness China's footprint and to educate the Chinese public about their overseas impacts. At IIED, we work to promote sustainable … socially beneficial forms of Chinese engagement with Africa (learn about our work here ). In addition to generating evidence and informing …
Insight, 02 May 2014
Two of the 20 questions in last year's environment and development quiz. After learning lots of lessons, we have produced another one this year... (Image: IIED)
A quiz-ical look at Christmas content
… Over the Christmas period, the number of people visiting the IIED website typically drops to around a quarter of the usual traffic. … aims for our quiz. We wanted to highlight a range of information about IIED's work during the year and we wanted to make it less serious … to what's intended to be a bit of fun. Not only can people learn more about our work, the process has also given us a greater understanding of …
Insight, 24 December 2015
Rosebell Kagumire was among the delegates at the conference discussing the post-2015 development framework: priorities for the least developed countries, in late January (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Media missing from UN drive to engage millions on post-2015 development agenda
… in Kampala with the Health Journalists Network in Uganda and IIED on the role of journalists in reporting the current developments on … Development Goals (MDGs) agenda, which began in 2000. It wasn't until about five years later that many journalists begun covering human … The journalists said that it was important to keep media informed about the next phase of the development agenda discussions. "Through …
Insight, 04 February 2014
Two forest farmers from Ghana, including the head of a local community forest group, alongside some cocoa beans (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Integrating forests into the post-2015 development framework
… sustainability, which led to a high level of uncertainty about how natural resource and climate change issues would be incorporated into the post-2015 development framework.  IIED recognised the opportunity for influencing the negotiation of this … environment for equitable and sustainable forest management. What did IIED do? We gathered evidence and enabled dialogue with key …
Project, 21 May 2014
IIED director Camilla Toulmin speaking at the 2014 Barbara Ward Lecture at the British Library (Photo: Julius Honnor/IIED)
Handing over the reins at a strong institution
… People are IIED's best asset – those within the organisation and across our diverse … if they have space to try them out. Almost everyone who joins IIED does so because they are enthused by the prospect of working on … a fairer, more sustainable world. Related:  Camilla Toulmin writes about her decision to step down after ten years, and outlines how the …
Insight, 01 December 2014
Community Forestry in the Democratic Republic of Congo
… DRC that this is the case. Thus, as the DRC government is thinking about how to manage its forests in the future, it is giving serious … will continue to play in managing and sustaining the forest. IIED provided input and support to a project coordinated by the UK NGO … with rural and forest-based communities in the DRC. What did IIED do? IIED conducted research into experiences in other parts of the …
Project, 09 September 2010
How can decentralised finance drive sustainable development? A new interactive story produced by IIED's Human Settlements Group highlights successful examples from the global South (Image: Kiln/IIED)
It's the thought that counts: how can Addis deliver for the world’s poorest?
… for Development Conference in Addis Ababa has fuelled debate about how the post-2015 development agenda will be financed. But it is … available to address the needs of the poorest communities. This week IIED launches the 'Architecture of aid', a new interactive webpage that … an alternative model, driven by federations of the urban poor. IIED is also starting work on a major new change initiative looking at …
Insight, 08 July 2015