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International experts on gender and employment participating in an IIED gender workshop in 2014 (Photo: Lucille Robinson/IIED)
Gender in the workplace: do families always have to lose out?
… its focus on gender equality, could not have been more timely for IIED. We are currently undertaking a gender review and audit … a mission of building a fairer world. Our work reflects our concern about the plight of men and women, particularly in developing countries, … and climate, or who do perilous and precarious work. We care about their rights, their livelihoods, their access to resources …
Insight, 15 May 2015
Group of people in discussion seated at a table
Tricky questions and frank discussions: a participatory forum on protracted displacement in Afghanistan
… usual way of working with officials in Afghanistan – conversations about how to reach durable solutions for displaced people often risk … for the protracted displacement in an urban world’, facilitated by IIED partner Samuel Hall  in Jalalabad, Nangarhar. Jalalabad – being … (UN) and the private sector in the March forum. They spoke openly about the province’s challenges and solutions for displaced people in …
Insight, 10 June 2021
Ethiopia's Mursi tribe graze cattle, but also hunt for meat and ivory. There are frequent conflicts with government and park authorities about land rights (Photo: David Stanley via Flickr)
Ensuring equitable management of protected areas: we're still defining the issues
… on the decade's successes. But although there was a lot of talk about Aichi Target 11 and expanding protected areas with effective … of society as a whole. What does it actually mean – are we talking about fair process or fair outcomes? And are we talking in terms of … and even those that did, including three events co-hosted by IIED , struggled to provide clear answers because there has been so …
Insight, 05 December 2014
Understanding disruptive change is vital for Southern civil society organisations, and organisations such as IIED can help partners (Image: IIED)
Mapping the disruptive change ecosystem for Southern CSOs
… (CSOs) to get good at disruption. The retreat was part of IIED's disruptive change initiative, which has been exploring Southern … change ecosystem'. 1. Sensing disruption Sensing disruption is about using all of an organisation's senses to see and understand … change. That applies to Northern CSOs too, who should be truthful about their own challenges, both internally and when engaging with …
Insight, 21 December 2016
Women are sat at tables selling food a distance apart
Uganda’s hungry food vendors: counting the cost of COVID-19
… 2020, Kabarole Research and Resource Centre , in partnership with IIED and Hivos conducted a study examining the impact of the lockdown on … farmers market, but I’m making losses as I’m still learning about this new business. I’m losing my money and it’s making me worried … the city’s development.  And from service provider to consumer – what about the town’s people who rely on vendors for affordable, and often …
Insight, 11 June 2020
Communities living in low-lying areas of Bangladesh are currently adapting incrementally to rising sea levels - but transformational adaptation will eventually be necessarily (Photo: Aurélien Paulus, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Author Q&A: Resilience – the science of adaptation to climate change
… IIED senior fellow Saleemul Huq is an expert on the links between … of Climate Change Adaptation Policy and Negotiation'. What’s it about?  SH:  I co-wrote this chapter alongside Yousuf Mahid  and Nadine …
Article, 28 March 2019
Market traders wearing face masks sell produce
Inequality in the face of COVID-19: how grassroots communities are taking action
Event, 02 July 2020
The publicity for our Twitter chat on 27 March 2017 (Image: Nick Turner/IIED)
Creating a conversation online
… to promote an online conversation around them. This was not simply about promoting our own research and thinking. We wanted to hear and … for us because collaboration and communication are central to IIED's way of working. We created the hashtag  #GreenmustbeFair to link … , which provided concise summaries of some of the issues being talked about. Named individuals help the conversation. While all of the …
Insight, 20 April 2017
Building an embankment in the Bay of Bengal. Bangladesh has been forced to learn how to cope with the realities of climate change (Photo: Espen Rasmussen/PANOS)
Does "leave no-one behind" risk too narrow a focus?
… any soldiers falling into enemy hands. I also have some misgivings about what 'leaving no-one behind' actually means in a development … shape policy so it's important to pick them apart and think carefully about what they imply. Building on the MDG agenda Since the SDGs were … have more expertise on some of these issues than rich nations.  IIED senior fellow Dr Saleemul Huq gave a series of lectures in the …
Insight, 01 March 2016
While one of the objectives of the 2014 World Day to Combat Desertification is to strengthen the visibility of the drylands on the international environmental agenda, much more is needed (Photo: Marie Monimart)
Celebrating the drylands
Insight, 17 June 2014