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The 'Diffa; The Morning Light' video is one of a series of videos exploring the impact of climate change on drylands pastoralists (Image: IIED)
Pastoralism videos/Vidéos pastoralisme
… English subtitles , and  Hausa with English subtitles .   Read a blog about the videos by Camilla Toulmin , while the ' Modern and mobile … Development of Northern Kenya and other arid lands, and produced by IIED as part of the ' Educating nomads ' project. …
Article, 15 June 2011
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Staying Power. Can communities sustain solar-powered water projects in the Niger Delta?
… that must be overcome for communities to sustain them. Find out more about our work on improving people's access to sustainable energy. …
Publication, 01 July 2014
Nine toolkits are available to share the experiences of Southern networks carrying out climate change advocacy (Image: Southern Voices)
It's getting hot here: Southern advocacy to address climate change
… people from 128 countries from around the world showed that awareness about climate change in Europe was high, and some 59 per cent of people … advocacy skills is a key way to do this. Dr Hannah Reid (hannah.reid@iied.org) is a research associate with IIED's  Climate Change Group  and biodiversity team. Download the  nine …
Insight, 09 January 2015
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 3 PRA and raised expectations: potentials and pitfalls
… to see the output only in terms of a Often concerns are voiced about the dangers of set of diagrams. raising communities' expectations … It weaknesses of PRA: 1 Source: PLA Notes (1995), Issue 22, pp.17­19, IIED London PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988­2001 Without exception, participants …
Publication, 01 January 1995
Markets for the poor: the gap between theory and practice
… for the poor mean in practice? The latest ‘provocation’ seminar from IIED and Hivos, held in Paris on 30 March and hosted by the Netherlands … in decision-making processes. Making markets work for the poor is not about coming up with a fail-safe solution on paper. It’s about finding ways of empowering the poor to implement solutions that …
Article, 06 April 2011
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How climate finance can support sustainable development
… succeed the Millennium Development Goals from 2015. Find out more about our work on the Sustainable Development Goals and the post-2015 …
Publication, 01 September 2013
Street scene, Karachi, Pakistan. Photo by Fareena Chanda
Can we change the goals of development without changing the implementers?
… of the SDGs (and of the MDGs that preceded them). But what is notable about development is how little it has achieved towards many of these … littered with unfulfilled commitments. Yet the SDGs say very little about changing the system. As with the MDGs, the document is very good … posted on www.IRF2015.org. David Satterthwaite is a senior fellow in IIED's Human Settlements Group. …
Insight, 09 July 2014
Drought affects Xinjiang Province, a consequence of climate change (Photo: Simon Lim)
Well-financed climate change action must be central to the post-2015 goals
Insight, 04 September 2014
Recovering wildlife populations in Namibia are largely attributed to policies that give local people rights to benefit from wildlife on their land (Photo: Ronald Woan, Creative Commons via Flickr)
There’s justice in the battle for biodiversity 
… is a social justice issue Effective courses of action are as much about disempowering environment exploiters as empowering its potential … forest insurance, and support for farmers’ capacity to organise.  At IIED, we are further building the case and practical paths for …
Insight, 28 June 2018
Flooded sugar cane fields near Colombia's third largest city, Cali, during an intense rainy season.
What does low-carbon resilience look like in Latin America?
… concerns, such as deforestation, as well as international concerns about greenhouse gas emissions. Forestry seems to be one sector where a …
Insight, 04 April 2013