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Urban livelihoods: reviewing the evidence in support of the New Urban Agenda
… We then review existing and emerging frameworks for thinking about the informal economy, first in development studies and then in …
Publication, 01 November 2016
Keeping the forests we've got
Insight, 30 April 2009
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Shifting perceptions, changing practices in PRA: from infinite innovation to the quest for quality (PLA 50)
… reflections from the standpoints associated with two institutions - IIED and IDS - that were part of the early efforts to promote and … practice. It locates threads that have run through debates about PRA since the first issues of Participatory Learning and Action, …
Publication, 01 October 2004
Langrug informal settlement, South Africa, May 2014 (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
Introduction to urban poverty
… needs for urban populations. Our focus for the next five years IIED is working to reduce urban poverty, and to change misleading views about urbanisation and rural change. Drawing on the knowledge and … are:  Understanding housing improvements: Funded by Comic Relief, IIED is working with uTshani Fund in South Africa to improve government …
Project, 09 September 2014
Sewing on the street in Djibouti. The informal sector still plays an important role in most of the LDCs (Photo: Charles Roffey, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Five obstacles facing Least Developed Countries
…   Proliferation of goals and targets LDC delegates voiced concern about the mind-boggling number of goals and targets set by various … make the group of LDCs history.  Essam Yassin Mohammed ( eymohammed@iied.org ) is a senior researcher in IIED's  Shaping Sustainable Markets research group .  …
Insight, 29 June 2016
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Smallholder farming systems in Southwest China: Exploring key trends and innovations for resilience
Publication, 01 March 2016
From vulnerable to adaptive to leaders: Speech by Saleemul Huq at Climate Vulnerable Forum
News, 14 November 2011
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Deepening readiness for climate finance: the role of the political economy
Publication, 01 April 2015
Lessons from the Murdoch affair
… by Stig Nygaard] This real life drama provides valuable lessons for IIED’s work to create a greener, fairer world. We have long fought for … that remind us of the need within those efforts to think carefully about the ramifications of concentrated power, the lack of … activities had allowed the company to acquire secret information about government members and others — information that politicians would …
Insight, 28 July 2011
An oil flare in Port Harcourt Nigeria.
Transparency: can it work for sustainable development?
… involving fuel subsidy transfers. The story isn’t all bad: about one-third of African economies grew by more than 6 per cent in … and revenue stream (but not by project). Co-author of a recent IIED report on EITI and sustainable development in the Caspian Region , … global dialogues should also be discussed.” Another co-author of the IIED report, professor Ingilab Ahmadov, director of the Eurasia …
Insight, 23 May 2013