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Aerial view of destroyed housing and infrastructure.
Resilient prosperity in SIDS: forging a new finance compact
… win column, especially with the anger growing from poorer countries about how dramatically the cards are stacked against them.  Look out for more IIED research on debt restructuring and finance for SIDS in the next …
Insight, 29 August 2023
Farmers harvest crops in fields.
Interview: Championing public participation in Kenya’s trade negotiations
… listened to? Asking the questions is Lorenzo Cotula (LC) , who leads IIED’s work on international trade agreements and international … to the country’s interests. LC: Why the particular concern about Kenya’s trade agreements or negotiations with the EU, the UK and … Caucus on Economy and Business which is a bipartisan group of about 30 legislators, and have submitted evidence to the Parliamentary …
Article, 29 June 2022
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Philanthropy’s role in sustaining fisheries for people and nature
… Small-scale fisheries (SSF) and their communities, numbering about half a billion people, are the largest group of ocean users and …
Publication, 21 November 2023
Images for biodiversity, conservation and poverty reduction (Photos: Ricky Martin, Douglas Shiel, Tim Cronin)
Q&A: Why the PCLG website is the place to be for poverty and conservation issues
… other ways you can engage with the PCLG. What is the PCLG site all about? The PCLG website is the information portal of the Poverty and … the website provides information on the work done by the IIED-based PCLG secretariat and by the national PCLG chapters in Uganda … publications and so on. How did the idea of revamping the site come about? Since the website was first launched in 2005, the amount of …
Insight, 09 October 2014
A woman holds up woven baskets
Nominating your outstanding women in development
… The latest in IIED’s biennial Barbara Ward Lecture  was scheduled for June 2020, with … for a project that is funded by DFID through IIED ,” adds Maggie about Mlumbe, who is demonstrating how socio-legal empowerment can … some #OutstandingWomen working in #development ! I want to talk about Maria-Teresa Nogales of @Alternativascc & here’s why ? Who …
Article, 15 June 2020
A sign protesting against development
Understanding growing pressures on land: 'land grabbing' and beyond
… world food and commodity prices as well as government concerns about longer term national food and energy security have fostered a … But researchers, activists and grassroots groups have raised concerns about the ‘development pathway’ being pursued, and how the costs and … their terms or advance alternative development pathways.  What is IIED doing? IIED has generated evidence on changing commercial pressures …
Project, 13 October 2014
Montage of Kristalina Georgieva, Mia Mottley and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
The third woman – getting trade back on track
… in the changes it will make and role it will play. That could be about to change with WTO’s director general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala pushing … a strong bond and potential to work together to change the system. IIED is conducting research  to better understand how international …
Insight, 26 April 2023
Group discussions with women in Isiolo County, Kenya helped to generate specific evidence about why they and other marginalised groups are more vulnerable to climate change (Photo: Susannah Fisher, IIED)
Decision making in an uncertain climate
… project explored how to address these challenges by bringing together IIED's work on social learning and our TAMD framework  that tracks … and power This evidence calls for a concerted effort to learn more about the value of different decision making and implementation … decision making.  Looking forward to uncertainty To build knowledge about how a process-orientated adaptation approach could be made most …
Insight, 23 January 2017
Woman wearing a blazer checks her mobile phone in the street.
Towards gender equality: the digital rights of girls and women
… already prevalent gender inequalities across the globe. Watch an  IIED Debates event  that explored how to make the digital world more … to navigate the digital space and help shrink gendered stereotypes about technology capabilities. Another fundamental issue is addressing … digital use, argued Nasubo Ongoma, researcher at Qhala , in a recent IIED Debates event . Similarly, policies in different countries and …
Insight, 24 January 2022
An expert on legal issues in international climate change negotiations, IIED's Achala Abeysinghe has been named one of the world's top 15 female climate champions (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)
A champion for the most vulnerable
… I'm proud to be recognised! https://t.co/3uuxUviIvC … Thank you @iied @andynortondev @SaleemulHuq @LDCChairUNFCCC @UNFCCC #justiceforLDCs … years and the results we and the LDCs have achieved so far; anxious about how the 196 countries will pull it together within the next three weeks; and restless about getting the most equitable outcomes for LDCs. "Most of all I'm …
News, 23 November 2015