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Women walking along Sélingué dam in Mali, June 2014 (Photo: Lucile Robinson/GWI West Africa)
ECOWAS encourages states to learn from returns on investment of large dams in West Africa
… economic, social and environmental impact as well as inform decisions about future investments and policy-making for large dams. When … Africa and with UK aid from the UK government. GWI is implemented by IIED and IUCN and funded by the Howard G. Buffett Foundation . This is …
News, 25 March 2015
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How can Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments best impact policy and planning?: Lessons from Indonesia
Publication, 01 August 2015
Biofuels boom risks increasing landlessness among world's poor
… biofuels are not all good or bad," says lead author Lorenzo Cotula of IIED. "Biofuels can either help or harm the world's poor depending on … is set to expand in the coming years despite growing concerns about the role of biofuels in mitigating climate change, promoting …
News, 02 June 2008
CBA9 starts with opening speeches - but will quickly make way for films and games (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
A community of doers: celebrating the CBA conferences, and looking forward
Insight, 28 April 2015
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Key sanitation issues: commitments, coverage, choice, context, co-production, costs, capital, city-wide coverage
… upgrading programmes. We need universal coverage – with choices about provision influenced by those who lack it and by local context. …
Publication, 01 July 2015
Discussing climate resilience in Kinna, northern Kenya.
How do we tell whether climate change adaptation is making headway?
… But how do we check we’re making progress along the right channel? IIED and partners hope to provide an answer by developing the Tracking … and benefits or as ‘efficiency’. But what we really need to know about is ‘efficacy’— what happens as a result of the outputs, i.e. … that’s what we are doing with TAMD. Getting TAMD underway IIED is working with climate change consultancies Adaptify and Garama 3C …
Insight, 06 December 2012
A vendor in India uses energy produced by a micro-grid funded by SunFunder (Photo: Sameer Halai/SunFunder)
Off-grid energy powered by the crowd
… close to the 15 per cent) and regional rural banks (whose rates are about 12-13 per cent) are also providing loans for micro-grids. … but as mentioned in the financing energy access workshop hosted by IIED last November , funding is one of many key success factors – … Development and Equity in Santiago, Chile, and a consultant with IIED's energy team. Follow him on Twitter: @borislopicich …
Insight, 09 April 2015
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 11 Tips for trainers
… Document begins: PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988­2001 11 Tips for trainers From: IIED Part. Inquiry Trainers Guide, Chapter 4 (Draft only) 7. Symbolic … the · To get the sub-groups motivated by region or country, hearing about the symbols involving then immediately in a successful is a good …
Publication, 01 January 1993
The chairman of the Mpungu Authorised Resource User Group, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, who was involved in the development of the 'Multiple Use' programme (Photo: Mariel Harrison)
Built on collaboration: how conservation research can benefit local people
… direct, tangible and long-term benefit from taking part?   The debate about how research can inform policy and practice often highlights the … ) is a biodiversity specialist at Parsons Brinckerhoff . Re ad more about this work: Uganda: Conserving Bwindi Impenetrable National Park … National Park, Uganda   Project partners For this project, IIED partnered with the Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation (ITFC) …
Insight, 27 March 2015
A community planning workshop in Cambodia (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
Improving housing in Asia – and turning traditional top-down funding on its head
… in Bangkok with the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR) to hear about the latest outcomes from the Asian Coalition for Community Action … just how effective it has been. Diana Mitlin ( diana.mitlin@iied.org ) is principal researcher in IIED's Human Settlements Group . More resources: Full details of the …
Insight, 11 March 2015