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Tanzania: Moving beyond ‘land grab’ rhetoric to finding solutions
… Newspapers are being filled with “land grab” headlines. Stories about displacement and dodgy land deals are becoming normal street-side … investors also face challenges due to a general lack of information about how much land is really ‘available’ for investment, as well as … addressing this issue, the Tanzania Natural Resource Forum (TNRF), IIED and Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA) , carried out a scoping …
Insight, 05 April 2012
Water kiosks in Zambia provide safe drinking water for poor households in peri urban areas of Chipata. Careful consideration of the affordability of water services for the urban poor is vital to provide universal and equitable access to safe and affordable water for everyone by 2030 (Photo: SuSanA Secretariat, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Improved water access unaffordable for urban poor
… significantly since 1990 (PDF) . However, research undertaken by IIED and affiliates at Slum Dwellers International (SDI)  show that the … around providing access to the market. The rationale seems more about broadening the customer base from which to recover costs than about realising citizens' rights to basic services, which does not fit …
Insight, 22 March 2016
A word cloud with words relevant to monitoring, evaluation and learning (Image: IIED)
Monitoring and evaluation, and impact evaluation methods
… approaches to identify results, and unpack how change has come about, and for whom. IIED has consistently proved to be progressive in using monitoring and … and replicable way. Read a presentation on this evaluation on IIED's SlideShare site . Social learning The social learning approach …
Article, 01 March 2017
In Mozambique, government ministries for development planning and for environment work with district authorities and NGO partners to support climate adaptation at a local scale
Monitoring and evaluation in Mozambique shows how to link local and national climate adaptation
Insight, 28 February 2014
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Implementing farmers’ rights under the FAO International Treaty on PGRFA: the need for a broad approach based on biocultural heritage
… and improvement of crops by farmers depends. It draws on research by IIED and partners in Peru, Panama, India, China and Kenya. Follow the links below for more about our work on Biocultural heritage. …
Publication, 01 March 2011
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How can standardised evaluation metrics increase climate resilience?
Publication, 01 March 2020
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Key themes and questions for national REDD strategies
… This briefing paper aims to stimulate thinking about process and content issues within national REDD strategies. Under … the development of REDD. The paper also includes boxes outlining how IIED might share its experience to help provide answers to some of these …
Publication, 01 December 2009
US special climate envoy Todd Stern tells journalists his views on the 'Higher Ambition Coalition'. LDC chair Giza Gaspar-Martins in second left on the panel at the press conference (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
A symbolic victory on 1.5 degrees for LDC Group in Paris
Insight, 18 December 2015
Peru’s Belen Valley is a landscape largely uninhabited by humans, but home to hummingbirds, the spectacled bear and more than 50 species native to the area (Photo: Leendeleo via Flickr)
Have your say: Enabling forest landscapes to score Sustainable Development Goals
… with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) , IIED asked how the SDGs can catalyse policy and practice that enables … agreements on climate and sustainable development. On the panel were IIED director Camilla Toulmi n, Paula Caballero, senior director of … we learn from forest sector experiences at national and local levels about how to deliver an integrated approach, including the kinds of …
Event, 16 December 2014
The New Enclosures? Polanyi, international investment law and the global land rush
… The Great Transformation remains one of the most insightful readings about the socioeconomic changes associated with the Industrial … it can recognise the multiple values that society attaches to land. IIED worked on this article under its Legal tools for citizen …
Publication, 01 November 2013