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Hundreds of homes are crammed together up the side of a hill
Q&A: Achieving housing rights for all: issues and recommendations
… Coinciding with World Habitat Day 2020 , on 5 October 2020 IIED hosted an online discussion about the shortage of adequate, dignified housing during the coronavirus … government approaches. Q: How has COVID-19 influenced recommendations about the housing crisis in the global South? Poor quality housing has …
Article, 22 October 2020
Maureen O'Neil and Rebeca Grynspan, the incoming and outgoing chair of IIED's board of trustees, discuss the institute's key challenges and successes over the last six years (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Trustee chairs in conversation: Maureen O'Neil and Rebeca Grynspan
… In the first video, above, O'Neill discussed IIED's progress with Rebeca Grynspan, who succeeded her as chair of the … activist-researchers anywhere. She said such people were passionate about making a difference in the world, and not that interested in worrying about the managerial underpinnings of the organisation. She said: …
Article, 11 August 2014
A buffet of Ugandan food
Science with citizens, or science for citizens?
… described citizen science across all three categories. We heard about Zoouniverse , a website that allows anyone to contribute to dozens … identify galaxies to measuring the necks of giraffes. We also learned about the bird atlas project in Nigeria, which is being built entirely … The Sustainable Diets for All  programme is implemented by Hivos and IIED with partners in Uganda, Zambia, Kenya, Bolivia and Indonesia, and …
Insight, 23 July 2019
The incoming chair of IIED's board of trustees, Rebeca Grynspan, discusses her enthusiasm for her new role (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Trustee chairs in conversation: Maureen O'Neil and Rebeca Grynspan (Part IV)
… she had been honoured and thrilled to be invited to become chair of IIED's board. She said she had been very involved in discussions about sustainable development in recent years. Grynspan also served as … organisations that were doing the research and gathering the evidence about sustainable development. What appealed to her was IIED's ability …
Article, 14 August 2014
More than 70 people joined the webinar about evaluation and voluntary national reviews. You can watch a recording of the webinar at the bottom of this page (Image: IIED)
Evaluations, reviews and assessments are key to embedding the SDGs
… and needs of different stakeholders while new knowledge is generated about effectiveness, efficiency, equity and impact.  In doing this, … Agenda 2030 by facilitating the co-generation of value judgements about what works, for whom, under what conditions. These judgements must … You can review D'Errico's presentation slidedeck on IIED's Slideshare platform . IIED has also published a briefing paper on …
Insight, 19 July 2017
Two men stand in front of a building under construction, with mountains in the background
Monitoring climate change adaptation: the importance of linking global and national reporting
News, 19 December 2019
Protesting people march holding a banner
Q&A: Successful social mobilisation for land rights in Nepal
… to eradicate poverty and injustice.  Jagat is also an alumnus of IIED’s  2019 Communications Learning Week , a space where project … them to act.  Q: When you visited IIED last year, you told us about an action in which women took to the streets to effect change when more formal processes failed them. Can you tell us about that protest?  JB:  There are two pieces of context for this …
Article, 28 February 2020
IIED research associate Nathalie Seddon discusses nature-based solutions to climate change in a video interview (Photo: IIED)
Consensus grows on nature-based solutions to climate change, but challenges remain
… In two new video interviews IIED researchers highlight the growing consensus about the value of nature-based solutions to climate change – including … growing recognition of Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA), and spoke about the challenges to effective implementation. She reported that …
News, 10 August 2018
Group of people sit and stand in a circle under a palm tree
Rethinking research and development approaches from a decolonisation perspective
… series − led by students from Sweden’s Lund University  – and on IIED’s commitment to address race and racism , gender equality and … solutions with those engaged in the projects . Research is not about personal excellence or superior methods, but about contribution to development processes. Researchers need to …
Insight, 14 July 2021
Marchers, including Saleemul Huq, at the New York climate change march (Photos: IIED)
Huq hails People's Climate march ahead of UN summit
… [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruawGh58OI0] In a video blog about the march, Huq said he hopes the event will be a wake-up call to … event was part of a worldwide campaign to call attention to concerns about climate change ahead of the summit. Some 1,500 marches were … their environments. Huq marched with the Bangladeshi community, while IIED director Camilla Toulmin wa also present for the New York march. …
News, 23 September 2014