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Living in close proximity to wildlife is not a neutral-impact relationship (Photo: Creative Commons, via Pixaby)
Wild life, wild lives: enough talking already
… International decision-making about wildlife conservation and management rests in the hands of … annual household income . Then imagine not being able to do anything about it, because you have no (or at best, limited) rights to take … resulting analysis, commissioned by UN Environment and prepared by IIED and IUCN, highlights many lessons, including the need to: Develop …
Insight, 27 November 2017
Green beans stacked into in a cardboard box
Rebalancing power in the Kenya-UK green bean value chain
… their rights or improve their working conditions and livelihoods. An IIED-hosted webinar looked at how to rebalance power within global value … significant positive changes, including:  The exporter being clearer about the reasons for rejecting beans, meaning farmers could produce the … the initiative in different contexts.  Panellists raised questions about the voluntary nature of the process. The dialogue generated an …
Insight, 09 September 2019
A woman wearing a mask pours chemicals into a bottle.
Addressing gendered and other inequalities will be central to COVID-19 recovery
… COVID-19: grassroots visions of change This article is part of an IIED series that brings together forward-looking responses on specific … inequalities. Resources: Below is a selection of online resources about gender equality and COVID-19. We will update this list during the … and COVID-19  and f eminist response to COVID-19 What do we know about women and COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries from the …
Article, 11 September 2020
Forest landscape in northern Costa Rica. Natural capital accounting has shown the value of Costa Rica's forests and forest products (Photo: keltikee, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Natural capital accounting: six tips for engaging policymakers
… supporting eight countries to produce natural capital accounts. IIED's role was to work with country teams, including communication … interested. It not only serves to find out how much these people know about NCA, but also gets their opinion on priority audiences – who is … shows how this can be done well, as does an article from Colombia about how accounts data informed a national statement about the cost of …
Insight, 01 August 2016
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Agents of Change: Reflections on a working partnership between BP Azerbaijan and the International Institute for Environment and Development
… Between 2005 and 2010, IIED and BP Azerbaijan engaged in an experimental relationship to … working environment than the organisation normally works in; to learn about Azerbaijan and about how a big multinational such as BP operates in that context; with …
Publication, 01 June 2010
Two fishermen cast their nets from a small boat
New guide to monitoring progress on SDG14
… focus on Goal 14 (SDG14) – Life below Water  – has been limited. Now IIED and partners have produced a new practical guide that aims to help … for SDG14. The ' MEL handbook for SDG14 ' gives detailed information about SDG14 targets and indicators, and includes step-by-step guidance … 2030, high level actors need to push for new ways to think and learn about the synergies and trade-offs of the 17 goals. Evaluation plays a …
News, 08 July 2019
Richard Reeves uses Lego to illustrate in a video how inequality affects the American Dream, an example of Brookings' communications creativity (Image: Brookings Institution)
(Should) All systems go?
… Brookings Institution in Washington, United States. He was talking about digital communications in a post-truth age, but it was as much an … compelling way. He also demonstrated a video game – the Fiscal Ship – about the difficulty of balancing US budgets and the policy regime that … thinking whether this approach would work here. Are we too hung up at IIED, for example, in getting systems embedded across the organisation …
Insight, 17 November 2017
People sit around a desk and talk into microphones
What makes a sustainable diet? And who decides? Make Change Happen podcast episode 5
… IIED’s ‘Make Change Happen’ podcast provides an opportunity to hear our … Diets for All . This advocacy programme, led by Dutch NGO Hivos and IIED, works with local partners to support civil society organisations … alive .  Mangiza Chirwa is a project manager for Hivos Zambia, where about 90% of low-income households rely on the informal sector for their …
Article, 05 May 2020
People participating in a workshop.
Development and Climate Days 2020
Event, 02 December 2020
A discussion on protected area governance in a stakeholder workshop with a community on the edge of Lake Mburo National Park, Uganda (Image: Francesca Brooker/IIED)
Q&A: How can we achieve 'fairer conservation'?
… On 27 February, IIED senior researcher Phil Franks will present at an event at London … as context and expectations change, so I think what we are talking about and need to understand is how we achieve 'fairer conservation'. … that keeping people happy with (ie supporting) conservation is all about the balance of material benefits and costs – a cost-benefit …
Article, 27 February 2018