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Modelling demand for catastrophic flood index-based insurance in Da Nang City, Vietnam: Using choice experiments
… upstream hydropower plants. Annual flood damage costs have reached about VN$ 8.2 million (about US$ 400)/household) in which about 50 per cent of total costs is from damage to houses. The costs for …
Publication, 01 June 2014
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Evaluation: a missed opportunity in the SDGs’ first set of Voluntary National Reviews
… the role of evaluation. It found that most VNRs show little awareness about just what evaluation is and how it could be used to support the …
Publication, 01 May 2017
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Making the links between woodlands and wellbeing: a multi-stakeholder approach
… woodland in Mozambique is more than an environmental issue. Choices about land use — whether made locally, provincially or nationally — … and routes out of poverty, what happens to woodlands becomes as much about people. But if the links between land use and the wellbeing of …
Publication, 01 May 2015
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 Editorial
… curricula; it underpins the transfer of For the occasion of the joint IIED/IDS technology model of research; and it is central "Beyond Farmer … Robert Chambers and I wrote are custodians of knowledge which can be about the need to move towards a new dispensed or given (usually by … sustainable and participatory futures (Pretty in sensitive learning about the particular conditions of rapid change. Where teaching and …
Publication, 01 January 1994
Low-cost solar lanterns enable a boy to study at home in the small village of Shidhulai in the Natore District of northwestern Bangladesh (Photo: G.M.B. Akash/PANOS)
Universal energy access: combining public and private sector efforts
… We concluded that governments and donors need to understand more about how to stimulate large- and small-scale private investment to … Also, as part of our efforts to build understanding and dialogue, IIED is joining the Overseas Development Institute and the Institute of … . If you are interested in joining the debate, email  emma.wilson@iied.org . Read the full report:   Sharing the Load: public and private …
Insight, 30 September 2014
Louder this time, ‘Turn REDD on its head!’
… is going to work. Many in-country protagonists in REDD processes who IIED collaborate with in the Forest Governance Learning Group concluded … a mouthful. Here in Durban on 27th November a very lively group of about 50 people spent a day considering what ‘South-South learning’ tells us so far about REDD+, poverty reduction and sustainable development. Participants …
Insight, 30 November 2011
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Reconciling forest conservation with food production in sub-Saharan Africa: case studies from Ethiopia, Ghana and Tanzania
… how these trade-offs might be better managed through informed choices about where and how to intensify agriculture, and which areas of natural …
Publication, 01 April 2017
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Participatory resource mapping
… This enables collaborative discussion within and across groups about solutions to problems that are felt locally but often driven …
Publication, 01 March 2017
Gates Foundation gives US$10 million to help urban poor improve living conditions
… funding, the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) will provide academic support for the national programmes. Sheela … more than 200,000 homes (see table below). Worldwide, however, about a billion people live in slums or shacks, most of which lack safe … specific opportunities to advance development and to learn about new approaches that can inform and improve the strategies and …
News, 22 November 2007
Two women walking in a slum
COVID-19: on the front line where crisis meets normal
… Earlier this week, I talked to IIED board member Sheela Patel , who is locked down in her house in … real change from development support. Making room for risk This is about unpredictability and risk in delivering change. The poorest …
Insight, 16 April 2020