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A woman market trader hands over a bag of produce to a male customer, who is giving her money in return
Financial summary 2021
… Throughout 2020/21 and into 2021/22, IIED has been closely monitoring the delivery of its projects, including … in 2020/21. Supporting employees At the beginning of the year, IIED established a coronavirus response team to monitor and respond to … new partnerships and working on new projects Internal discussion about culture and strategy, with the findings of the race and racism …
Page, 30 November 2021
A pyramid-type structure made of foam upon which people have stuck small cubes representing ideas.
Refugee voices at the summit
… The project's starting point was the recognition that data collection about refugees by humanitarian agencies, governments and researchers can … by refugees.  Funded by Open Society Foundations and implemented by IIED and the Information and Research Centre at the King Hussein … art-based tool, the City of Refuge toolkit.  This method wasn't just about listing priorities; it was a powerful exercise in giving refugees …
Insight, 27 March 2024
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Biocultural Adaptation in Mountain Communities: Third INMIP International Learning Exchange, Stone Village, China
… Latin America. It is coordinated by ANDES (Peru), with support from IIED (through the SIFOR project – Smallholder Innovation … ANDES (Peru), the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy (China), IIED and UNDP-GEF Small Grants Programme worked together to organise the … on 18-23 May 2016. This report presents the results. Find out more about our work on biocultural heritage at the website linked below. …
Publication, 01 October 2016
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Trends in global land use investment: implications for legal empowerment
… of jobs and public revenues, they have also prompted concerns about land dispossession, exclusionary investment models and … legal empowerment approaches. This project has been produced under IIED’s Legal tools for citizen empowerment project. …
Publication, 01 December 2017
An image of youth climate leader Greta Thunberg on a mural, with her speech: "You all come to us young people for hope. This is all wrong"
Development and Climate Days 2019
… processes under the UNFCCC. "Winning slowly is the same as losing" IIED's director, Andrew Norton, opened the event with a call for … same as losing". He said the global community needs to "get serious" about climate justice, and ensure that more finance reaches those worst …
Event, 08 December 2019
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Research with refugees: taking care not to cut a long story short
… case research with refugees − can present challenges. As part of an IIED-led project comparing the experiences of displaced peoples in … They take part in the research and are asked again and again about issues such as household income, shelter conditions, food security … hopes of university study, and the frustration he felt when learning about his classmates’ accomplishments; those who weren’t forced to flee. …
Insight, 28 February 2022
Fishers in a small boat unpack the fish they have caught
Climate Adaptation Summit 2021
… warming world, showing how we can achieve a climate-resilient future. IIED and a number of its partners were at the summit, one of the first … is critical for ensuring strong climate action in the years to come. IIED engaged in summit activities by:  Participating in and speaking at … adaptation ambition at COP26 needs to look like, what they are doing about it, and how to judge what success looks like for us all. See the …
Event, 25 January 2021
Miners from the Tanga region in northern Tanzania participating in discussions about how to make ASM in Tanzania more sustainable (Photo: Steve Aanu)
Mining dialogue paves the way for change
… IIED and partners organised a dialogue event in Tanzania last November … to bring together mining stakeholders for four days of discussions about promoting sustainable small-scale mining.  Interviews with the … was effective in breaking down barriers and changing people's views about the ASM sector. The spirit of change is loud and clear – dialogue …
News, 05 February 2018
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Community perspectives in investor-state arbitration
… arbitration’ – have come to crystallise wider concerns about the balance of public and corporate interests in economic … arbitration. Issues that have surfaced in such cases include concerns about communities’ enjoyment of human rights, their access to land and … June 2017, revised 4 July 2017. This project has been produced under IIED’s Legal tools for citizen empowerment project. …
Publication, 01 June 2017
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Raising ambition in locally-led action for 2021: calling for business unusual
… Together with the World Resources Institute (WRI) , IIED is supporting the Global Commission on Adaptation’s Locally-led … by two commissioners, Sheela Patel and Dr Muhammed Musa . Since 2019 IIED has been working with WRI on a ‘Framework for LLAT’, gradually … principles for moving to business unusual ’. Find out more about IIED’s work researching the benefits and challenges of getting …
News, 16 November 2020