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Q&A: helping communities protect their land rights
… expert Rachael Knight  (RK), a lawyer by training and member of IIED’s legal tools team, brings diverse experiences to IIED – from … natural resources, health and welfare. IIED recently produced a video about how communities and civil society advocates can engage with large … as good rules their ancestors followed in the past After learning about relevant national and international laws, the community then …
Article, 27 January 2020
A woman farmer in Malawi, surrounded by maize, examines her crop
CBA12: Local experience driving climate action
… enable opportunities for gender-transformative outcomes. Read more about  how CBA12 benefited the CBA community of practice in this Q&A .  A new approach IIED brought a new approach to this year's event. The CBA12 programme … under each workstream . Other coverage included: Q&A:  What’s new about this year’s CBA event? Detailed  CBA12 programme (PDF) Blog:  How …
Event, 11 June 2018
A young man looking at a mangrove seedling
CBA14 Setting the stage: from crisis to climate action
Event, 21 July 2020
Four people on a video call
Seven things we learned when we moved our public events online
… A year last March we were six months into delivering IIED’s ambitious new external public event programme ‘IIED Debates’  when the coronavirus pandemic hit. We had only one … in the room? And what technology will support that? We are thinking about innovative ways to create inclusive and accessible events for …
Insight, 12 April 2021
Maria Lourdes Alvarez is a warden monitoring fishing activity at Decalve Marine Sanctuary, a Marine Protected Area in the Calamianes Islands in the Philippines (Photo: Asuncion Sia/USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Gender and biodiversity conservation – progress and future directions
… Over the last three years an internal network of IIED Gender Equality Champions  has been leading our gender ambition, helping staff to think about how we can become gender transformative in our work. We see gender … of view. Where speakers identified progress, we asked them to think about the factors that had supported change, and those that had placed …
Insight, 29 November 2018
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Advocacy on investment treaty negotiations: lessons from Malaysian civil society
… a coalition to raise public awareness and develop advocacy about the Trans-Pacific Partnership. This publication distils lessons … learned from that experience. This paper has been produced under IIED’s Legal tools for citizen empowerment project. …
Publication, 01 June 2015
G20 must massively scale up debt offer to help low-income countries tackle climate crisis, nature and COVID-19
… from COVID-19, according to new research published today by IIED. ' Redesigning debt: lessons from HIPC for COVID, climate and … fell short on these issues, and the G20 has the chance to make it up. IIED director Andrew Norton said: “The G20 needs to seize this … of the US$650 billion special drawing rights that the IMF is about to release. Climate and nature programmes would need to vary by …
News, 07 July 2021
People planting trees
Planting pilot has vision to nurture young tree ambassadors
… room for construction: real estate is really booming in Kisumu. IIED is curating a blog series via our Facebook page . … followers – particularly our younger audience – to write for us about their experiences. To kick off 2020, we asked about green new year's resolutions – this blog is one of the responses. …
Insight, 11 February 2020
New ways to channel climate money crucial to meeting Paris Agreement targets
… ' Money where it matters: designing funds for the frontier’ , by IIED, sets out how a fundamental reform of the way climate finance is … of people living in the poorest and most vulnerable countries.   IIED’s Money Where it Matters framework recommends fundamental reform to … government and community representatives – are involved in decisions about where and how funds are channelled. Less than 10% of international …
News, 14 March 2019
A group of people line up in front of a mountain background.
Building green and inclusive energy
… Energy’ (GIE) programme is a collaboration of Hivos , ENERGIA  and IIED that supports civil society advocacy in low and middle-income … so these are greener and people-centred , together with a curiosity about ‘social innovation labs’ as a mechanism for change – started the … service interruptions and that people had little understanding about off-grid products, such as solar home systems – often buying …
Project, 01 October 2020