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Redress for land and resource rights violations: a legal empowerment agenda
… local context and supporting communities to make informed decisions about what forms of redress to pursue. This approach should strengthen … empowerment practitioners. This publication has been produced under IIED’s Legal tools for citizen empowerment project. …
Publication, 01 March 2019
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How can local urban priorities connect with responses at global level to the climate crisis?
… struggled to prioritise. Yet at the global level the conversation is about the climate crisis, of mitigation and adaptation, of loss and … the Action Hub at COP27 ,  accompanied by a short written piece about what inspired the photo. This is one small way of building the … social and economic solutions. Working together for common goals IIED talks about connecting for common goals . Nowhere is this more …
Insight, 26 October 2022
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Democratising international investment law
… shaping the future of international investment law. But while debates about investment treaties are often framed in technical and legal terms, … are eminently political. These political dimensions raise questions about who decides, and how public decisions are made. What did IIED do?  We generated evidence on approaches to promote public …
Project, 07 May 2020
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Remembering Mary Tiffen, a drylands pioneer
… professor Michael Mortimore, and is available at drylandsresearch.iied.org . Her research challenged, and continues to challenge, careless assumptions about the causes of desertification and appropriate policy responses. … to greater income, but also to education and to better intelligence about new crops and techniques. The capital investment increasingly …
Article, 01 June 2020
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Learning together boosts confidence and better communications
… IIED’s Communications Learning Week  is always a great event: new people … how to put a communications strategy together, move on to thinking about audiences in great depth, and then look at a variety of social … plans and policies, investments and regulations, so really, it’s all about communications.” He realised he enjoys communications activities, …
Insight, 22 November 2019
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Making natural capital accounting an institution in Uganda
… accounting. It’s an odd confession to make, but the more I learn about it, the more I wonder why every country isn’t investing in better … Planning Authority, other government ministries, and UNEP-WCMC and IIED in the UK, as part of a Darwin Initiative project funded by the UK … Two years on from the project inception meeting , we were hearing about the first findings from newly completed natural capital accounts …
Insight, 11 December 2020
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The adaptation action and research sandbox: aligning two global processes
… front and centre. At this innovative sandbox-style event co-hosted by IIED and ARA, we learned about two salient efforts and discuss opportunities to strengthen and … Global Commission on Adaptation , the World Resources Institute and IIED consulted with a large number of organisations from around the …
Event, 01 July 2021
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A play on Wordle: using games to communicate climate issues
… word game might not be where you expect to find an organisation like IIED, which prides itself on rigorous research and influencing policy … at the forefront of people's minds and get a wider audience thinking about such critical issues in a different way. If a word game that is … of launch, respected climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe had tweeted about it to her 200,000-plus followers and it was included in the …
Insight, 15 March 2022
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Law, economies and justice: a new programme
… And as different visions come into contest, there are questions about whose rights are protected and how, whose voices are heard and … village meetings, national policy processes or United Nations talks. IIED’s new law, economies and justice programme works with partner …
Insight, 04 October 2022
Nature being sidelined in efforts to fund adaptation to climate change
… to protect and restore nature, according to preliminary analysis from IIED. The amount of finance being provided by richer countries to help … climate change is already woefully inadequate. This new analysis from IIED raises further concerns – between 2014 and 2018, less than 10% of … of the data. Holland said: “Donors need to be much more transparent about exactly how much funding they are providing to help countries and …
News, 09 March 2022