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A panel of people sit at a desk facing seated guests, in front of a screen showing a steeply rising graph
Reporting greenhouse gas emissions: LDCs’ 20-year journey
Insight, 01 June 2021
Mobile phones being sold in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Access to information and new technologies will be key to help delivering transformational change to the world's poorest countries (Photo: ConDev Center, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Painting a new picture of development
… Organised by the Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group , IIED, and the ESRC's STEPS Centre , the event discussed the challenges … to open up a new political space and have a radical conversation about what transformation required. Andrew Norton from IIED asked what … to the need to change the development paradigm. The SDGs must not be about the sustainability of business as usual. How many farmers know …
News, 17 June 2016
The endangered Ryukyu Black-breasted Leaf Turtle has been designated as a National Natural Monument of Japan (Photo: Patrick Randall, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Global spotlight on biodiversity as agreement of post-2020 deal for nature nears
… been achieved, what is still needed and how the agenda is changing.  IIED asked Dr. Cristiana Paşca Palmer, executive secretary of the CBD … deal for nature – a new post-2020 global framework for biodiversity.  IIED is also thinking about how we can contribute to the post-2020 agenda, as part of …
News, 21 May 2018
IIED director Camilla Toulmin gave a lecture at the University of Sussex on 23 October (Photo: Chatham House)
Toulmin lecture: How can the Least Developed Countries be heard?
Event, 23 October 2014
People looking at a map
Learning from community planning following the Haiti earthquake
… archive As a contribution to the DFID-funded Urban Crises programme , IIED supported three researchers with detailed knowledge of … resulted in practical improvements to living conditions and brought about far-reaching institutional change in both the status of informal … was interpreted and realised, and what was learned-through-doing about humanitarian community planning.  Urban crises programme  The …
Project, 09 January 2020
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How to ensure that aid empowers urban poor groups
… David Satterthwaite, a senior fellow with IIED’s Human settlements group, spoke at TEDxHamburg City 2.0 , which … our cities and ultimately our lives.” Satterthwaite begins by talking about the international aid system. “This whole system is legitimated on … agency accountable to low income groups? Sadly no. I want to dream about another way,” he says. Satterthwaite talks about an alternative: …
News, 12 July 2013
Restoring mangroves (Photo: Orsibal Ramírez/IUCN)
EbA Evidence and Policy: El Salvador
… change and promote sustainable development. Between 2015 and 2019, IIED, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and … Aguacate River micro-basin in the lower part of the Paz River basin. About 11,000 people live here - the communities are socially and … Environment´s technical team. The dialogue also informed the Ministry about the preliminary results from the EbA Evidence and Policy project.  …
Project, 17 December 2018
Line of women walking through a field. One carries a basket on her head.
Promoting producer agency in agricultural value chain contracts: peer learning (in a pandemic)
… agency are little understood. To clarify these value chain options, IIED organised an event to bring together practitioners and value chain … issues Contracts in time of crises Earlier in 2020 participants of an IIED webinar had discussed  key considerations for sustaining the agency … (such as in Kenya), local patriarchal customs and lack of awareness about women’s rights  mean that many such laws have failed to improve …
Insight, 16 December 2020
Informal housing by the river.
Upgrading informal settlements in the global South: transforming relations with government, transforming lives
… This is the latest in a  series of blogs and interviews , curated by IIED senior fellow David Satterthwaite, examining different aspects of … which complicates construction. Agreement has to be reached about ‘reblocking’ to create access and internal roads along with water …
Insight, 05 October 2021
Three men stand on a bridge over an open culvert
Q&A: Monitoring climate change adaptation
Article, 06 December 2019