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Six representatives of developing country governments – Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Mozambique, Nepal and the Philippines – shared their experiences of rolling out the sustainable development agenda at the 21st Poverty Environment Partnership meeting (Image: IIED)
Country progress on putting the sustainable development goals into action
… The SDGs are a real opportunity to raise awareness among our people about natural resources and environment." … [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOEpe2M07AM] Sharing stories about what works, identifying knowledge gaps and sharing experiences … Sustainable Development Goals into action. Paul Steele (paul.steele@iied.org) is IIED's chief economist and PEP coordinator …
Insight, 23 June 2016
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Climate finance for hydropower
… and should attract climate finance support. Meanwhile, concerns about the social and ecological integrity of hydropower, such as the …
Publication, 01 January 2020
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Trade-offs in sustainable agricultural intensification: the farmers’ perspective
… including women and young people. This paper summarises a study about how farmers in Ghana, Burkina Faso and Malawi manage trade-offs …
Publication, 01 March 2020
The Roșia Poieni copper mine in Romania, one of the largest copper reserves in Europe (Photo: Cristian Bortes via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Investor-state arbitration: Lessons from civil society advocacy
… civil society practitioners recently shared their experiences during IIED's second Legal Tools webinar. Around the world, citizens' groups … in this area. In his presentation , Orellana discussed key concepts about international investment treaties and arbitration, and elaborated … a few cases where submissions were allowed. Brickhill spoke about the experience  of LRC in obtaining permission from a tribunal to …
Insight, 19 May 2014
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Designing and implementing a communication strategy for mobilizing resources for supporting wetland-friendly management practices in the Bhoj Wetlands, Bhopal, India
… As part of the collaborative project between IIED and Winrock International India on Developing Incentive-based … strategy was necessary to first make the recipients aware about the different problems related to agriculture run-off and how it …
Publication, 01 September 2005
An image of women selling produce in an internally displaced persons camp, near Tawilla in North Darfur. The 'leave no one behind' agenda aims to ensure the poor are included in sustainable development (Photo: UNAMID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Unpacking what we mean by 'leave no one behind'
… IIED believes understanding the different ways that 'leave no one … ideas. The meeting brought together people involved in thinking about how the principle could play out in policy development, in new … to health and education. The value of data There was general optimism about the value of the disaggregated data that could be generated across …
Article, 24 May 2016
Turtle hatchlings, targeted by the illegal wildlife trade, are pictured on a beach (Photo: Wildlife Rescue and Conservation Association)
How can we engage communities to help reduce illegal wildlife trade?
… Wildlife crime is at the top of the international conservation agenda. IIED and its partners, including the IUCN Sustainable Use and … and programmes? Do the assumptions that we suggest hold true? IIED is looking for feedback from people who have experience in this … change a useful approach to help policymakers and practitioners think about how and where to invest resources in community engagement to …
Insight, 03 September 2015
A vegetable seller with a food truck peels a cucumber
Urban poor community voices take to the stage at the World Urban Forum
… challenges from the grassroots that global agendas often overlook. IIED supported a group of community leaders from urban poor communities … Housing Rights , held in partnership with FAO, Nepali NGO Lumanti and IIED, the panel set out how skyrocketing food prices, poor quality … was equally moved by the stories she heard from others. “Learning about what others are doing has inspired me,” she said to me after the …
Insight, 19 February 2020
Participants from 26 countries attended the Forest Connect workshop (Photo: Hop Thinh)
Locally controlled forestry enterprises could teach us all a thing or two
… gathered to learn from countries in both the North and the South about how programmes to organise locally controlled forestry had been … and solidarity among members and the wider community. Business was about more than just the bottom line. Benefit to the wider community was … at the World Forestry Congress in Durban. Anna Bolin ( anna.bolin@iied.org ) is a researcher with IIED's Natural Resources Group . …
Insight, 04 February 2015
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Newsletter of the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights Sept 2014: special Issue on how poor people set their own poverty lines
… because those figures tell them poverty is disappearing. ACHR and IIED decided to challenge this with some bottom-up research into poverty … best - to think, examine, discuss and sharpen their own understanding about what constitutes poverty in their own particular contexts. …
Publication, 01 September 2014