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Street scene of small shops and a rickshaw in a city in South India.
BRICS urbanisation provides lessons for economic growth and social equity
… Gordon McGranahan of the International Institute for Environment (IIED) and Development, which has published the research in partnership … infrastructure and economic capital to compete in the global economy. About 40 per cent of Russia’s cities are based on a single industry, and a single employer dominates in about a third of these cities. Russia faces hard decisions about whether …
News, 05 December 2012
Water is conserved at a devolved climate finance project site in Zanzibar
Responding to climate change in Tanzania by strengthening dryland governance and planning
… approach to devolving climate finance to the local level. What did IIED do? Along with a consortium of government and non-government partners, IIED provided technical support to the government of Tanzania, in … resilient water planning and governance, and Inform national actors about lessons from the projects. There was significant involvement from …
Project, 16 March 2018
A batch of palm oil fruit bunches in Borneo. Demand for palm oil is set to double by 2030. (Photo: Rainforest Action Network)
Reducing forest footprints
Project, 12 September 2013
CANARI’s Radar tool helps small and micro enterprises assess their impacts. Here Kemba Jaramogi from Fondes Amandes Community Reforestation Project in Trinidad and Tobago presents their Radar. (Photo: CANARI)
Time to turn the PAGE?
… sized enterprises (SMEs) to develop inclusive, green business models. IIED is a member of the GEC, a network of more than 50 organisations … economic models.  Among the most innovative approaches I learned about is the Radar tool, developed by the Caribbean Natural Resources … global corporations use to show their investors they’re concerned about their social and environmental impacts (more on this later). SMEs …
Insight, 17 January 2019
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Improving governance of forest tenure: a practical guide
Publication, 01 September 2013
Bowls full of hilsa placed on a table
Investing in hilsa fishery as economic infrastructure for Bangladesh
… fishers to change their unsustainable fishing practices. What did IIED do? As part of the effort to enhance the effectiveness of the … – it was rarely given the attention it deserves in policy decisions about economic development, poverty alleviation, food security, … was working or not, and could be used to inform decisions about scaling up. In thinking about how to evaluate impacts, it is …
Project, 29 June 2015
Myanmar is undergoing rapid economic change and urbanisation. Many new settlements like this one in Lashio lack basic services (Photo: Alex Drainville)
Introduction to urbanisation and rural-urban linkages
… countries remain broadly negative. Urbanisation is not just about what happens in the cities but is part of broader transformations … , Cecilia Tacoli, Gordon McGranahan, David Satterthwaite (2015), IIED Human Settlements Working Paper Reframing the debate on … and food security , Cecilia Tacoli and Bill Vorley (2015), IIED Briefing Paper Urban informality and building a more inclusive, …
Article, 02 September 2014
An image of crouching community members in a village in Champasak province, Laos identify areas where open defecation is taking place ahead of implementing sanitation measures (Photo: Viengsompasong Inthavong/World Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
An urban approach to 'leaving no one behind'
… and their needs, and The politics of implementation – how decisions about priorities for investment in urban services and infrastructure are … no one behind to economic and environmental goals.  Our work ahead IIED has initiated a series of roundtable discussions to unpack 'leave … of leaving no urban residents behind.  Thinking more deeply about the concept and the ways that low-income groups are already …
Insight, 02 June 2016
Focus on small-scale farming: food or jobs?
… The Provocation seminar series About the series: Making markets work for small-scale farmers? … Rural youth today, farmers tomorrow? The latest ‘ provocation ’ from IIED and Hivos , held in The Hague last week (24 May), began by asking … the answer is clear: “we need to move from agriculture and talking about food security and productivity to enterprise, business and a …
News, 31 May 2012
People of all ages marching holding posters. One poster reads "protect all like on our planet"; another poster reads "no more blah blah blah"
COP27 and the important year ahead
Insight, 22 November 2021