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Mumbai's Dharavi settlement has a thriving informal economy. The government's redevelopment schemes have been hit by controversy and stalled for more than a decade (Photo: Jon Hurd, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The SDGs don't adequately spell out cities' role in implementation
… at all in the actual SDGs. SDG 17.9 on capacity building is all about international support for national plans.     The deficits in … funding and support.    David Satterthwaite is a senior fellow at IIED and visiting professor at University College, London. This blog, …
Insight, 12 October 2015
Community participation, with a strong focus on women, such as this women's savings group in Southern India, is vital to develop slum-friendly cities (Photo: Maria Andersson/Individuell Människohjälp, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
What might slum dwellers want from the SDGs?
… involves and is accountable to slum dwellers. From this, we learn about what works and from our mistakes. We need to learn how to find … drawn from an interview by  David Satterthwaite , a senior fellow in IIED's Human Settlements Group . …
Insight, 05 October 2015
Cover for 12513IIED.pdf
Local people making decisions
… mainly in Africa, but also in Asia. Three to four Issue Papers of about 30 pages accompany each Haramata, allowing for subjects to be …
Publication, 01 March 2004
Cover for 9331FIIED.pdf
Pression foncière et nouvelles normes d’accès à la terre : vers une déféminisation de l'agriculture au sud Niger ?
… Is there a point at which pressure on land is such that concerns about equity disappear and land is simply monopolized by the strongest …
Publication, 01 January 2004
Cover for 13503IIED.pdf
Bosque del Pueblo, Puerto Rico: How a fight to stop a mine ended up changing forest policy from the bottom up
… are perceived and managed. At the most basic level, it is a story about the creation and management of a new forest reserve in Puerto …
Publication, 01 January 2006
We need a plan. A plan that will guide us towards achieving real impact for smallholders. We are now documenting our work on creating Impact Pathways and Theories of Change in a new Learning Brief (Photo: G Smith/CCFAS)
How do we best create long-term impact that matters to smallholder farmers?
Insight, 09 April 2014
Climate protestors in Doha. Photo: adopt a negotiator
COP18 Q&A: Latest from the Doha climate change conference
Article, 06 December 2012
Cover for 9310IIED.pdf
Micro-policies on land tenure in three villages in Bam province, Burkina Faso. Local strategies for exchanging land
… This paper provides up-to-date information about the dynamics of land tenure in Bam province so as to inform the …
Publication, 01 January 2004
Cover for 12511IIED.pdf
HIV/Aids in West Africa
… mainly in Africa, but also in Asia. Three to four Issue Papers of about 30 pages accompany each Haramata, allowing for subjects to be …
Publication, 01 September 2003
Cover for 13526IIED.pdf
Forest-based associations as drivers for sustainable development in Uganda
… the nature of external intervention and support. It draws out lessons about the types of association that contribute most to rural livelihoods …
Publication, 01 June 2006