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Aerial view of the Kibera neighborhood in Nairobi, Kenya.
If cities could speak: vulnerability, climate and health in the city
… innovative approaches to achieving impact at multiple scales. What is IIED doing? Historically, very basic data on vulnerable urban … of climate change, as well as its impacts on health outcomes.  IIED will convene workshops with residents to shape and deliver … Through continued engagement, project partners will tell stories about climate’s impact on health, as well as offer ways of engagement …
Project, 07 October 2025
Dr Tara Shine conducts an experiment for her televised lecture
Prestigious lecture by IIED chair now available worldwide
News, 08 February 2021
A young woman in a greenhouse (Photo: Tamara Kaunda)
Attracting Zambia's youth to agriculture: it's about time
… The ' Sustainable Diets for All ' program run by Hivos and IIED recently partnered with Dr Tamara Kaunda, co-founder of Billionaire … that farming is for the old, the poor and the weatherworn. It's about drawing attention to new innovations in farming – crop development … are all making farming smarter, slicker and more profitable. It's about showing that farming can engage educated, entrepreneurial young …
Insight, 29 January 2018
Woman with jerrycans and two donkeys.
Exploring intersectionality: what does it look like for IIED and our partners?
… In April 2020, IIED adopted a new gender equality policy – one that challenges us to … threw up the question of how confident people in the institute are about what intersectionality means and how they should use it in their … working on projects in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zanzibar talked about the issues this work raised as much for relationships with …
Insight, 06 January 2021
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Assessing progress – putting IIED’s gender research ambitions into practice
… As part of IIED’s strategy to advance equitable, inclusive change , our goal is to … We set out this vision in our gender equality policy . In 2019, IIED’s Gender Equality Champions Network (GECN) commissioned a review to … addition, GECN is developing tools and resources to help staff think about gender during proposal development, and to ensure that gender and …
Insight, 23 April 2021
Two women carrying farming tools
IIED's best of 2019: videos
… The video of which we are most proud of in 2019 was not produced for IIED, rather it was created as part of the support we give to the Least … sound like the ideal subject for a 95-second video, but our animation about biological diversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ) … quickly and personally to events. On this occasion he was scathing about the current COP process , saying: "The system of the annual …
Insight, 06 January 2020
Cover for G03672.pdf
IIED Annual Report 2012/13: Sharing knowledge for change
… Learning is at the heart of IIED’s work: we place value on building our knowledge, creating the … from two more – both working with IIED in Kenya – on what they value about working in partnership with us. For the first time, we outline the … and responsibly as an organisation, and finish with information about donors, trustees and the financial summary for the year. …
Publication, 01 September 2013
Volunteer wearing blue t-shirt walks through neighbourhood in Lagos that houses displaced people.
Slum clearances ‘to protect from climate change’ are major source of CO2, study finds
… of CO2 emissions (MtCO2e) over the last 25 years, a new study by IIED estimates . Authorities may have evicted some 5 million people in … is also marking Urban October , which it calls a “conversation about the challenges and opportunities created by the fast rate of …
News, 21 October 2025
The logo for London Climate Action Week
IIED at London Climate Action Week 2020
Event, 01 July 2020
Animation of a two people with bags in front of a building
Youth initiatives, key to tackling climate change loss and damage in Rwanda as captured in IIED’s latest animation
News, 31 March 2021