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IIED launches training webinar to help get climate finance to the local level
News, 11 January 2021
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Latest IIED podcast puts the focus on energy access
… IIED's podcast series offers listeners the opportunity to hear from researchers about their work on key global challenges and how we are working to make … development for all. The recording features Ben Garside , who leads IIED's research on energy access and renewable energy, together with … Latest IIED podcast puts the focus on energy access …
News, 15 November 2019
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Nature 4 Development – introducing IIED’s new 2020 initiative
… a group of development organisations, ahead of the first meeting of IIED’s Nature 4 Development initiative held earlier this month. Last year I blogged about how development organisations had largely been absent from … to include in our evidence review If you’re interested to learn more about biodiversity and how it can contribute to development, get in …
Insight, 29 January 2020
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IIED at London Climate Action Week, November 2020
Event, 17 November 2020
Members of IIED staff sitting in a circle, discussing
Becoming an anti-racist organisation: what we’ve learnt so far
… understanding and learning how we could challenge structural racism, IIED’s race and racism working group commissioned an extensive … to be an actively anti-racist organisation. But we also want to talk about IIED’s experience and journey publicly, to help others and to … to IIED that I have actively sought more learning opportunities about racism, talked to people about their experiences of racism, …
Insight, 03 July 2024
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IIED and partners call for cities to develop a proactive response to urban displacement
… IIED, JIPS and UN-Habitat have made a joint submission to the UN … https://t.co/7PiXPpI4UW — Peter Oborn (@peteroborn) May 27, 2020 About the institutions The three institutions are all members of the … is an inter-agency body providing support, evidence and analysis about displacement situations to inform joint interventions and …
News, 10 June 2020
Jockin Arputham, right, signs documents with Stellenbosch Mayor Sidego in South Africa
IIED remembers Jockin Arputham
… tanks). It was so like Jockin to see such wider possibilities. So in IIED, we mourn someone who has long taught us and challenged us. Who … urban areas . Who also gave us so generously his time. Working with IIED Jockin regularly wrote about his work with the National Slum Dwellers Federation and SDI, and …
News, 15 October 2018
Old Indonesia coins. In Indonesia, like the UK, the income of the poorest 40 per cent has to grow at twice the rate of the national average if the income gap is to stay the same (Photo: Anis Eka, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
How serious are the SDGs about tackling inequality?
… could continue to soar. Yet the political and popular debate about the growing gap between rich and poor makes it clear that absolute … at the country level. Sarah Colenbrander (sarah.colenbrander@iied.org) is a researcher in IIED's Human Settlements research group ; Andrew Norton … How serious are the SDGs about tackling inequality? …
Insight, 04 October 2016
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IIED calls on climate funds to help reframe hydropower
News, 03 February 2020
Some of the publications published by IIED during 2017 (Image: Annette McGill/IIED)
IIED's best of 2017: publications
… be enhanced – to further improve the effectiveness of aid. Read more: IIED is researching the benefits and challenges of devolving development … Africa's largest trading partner. There are continuing misperceptions about China-Africa economic relations, and little empirical evidence on … investment treaties. This 64-page report provides a cautionary tale about whether the treaties fulfil their objective, as well as pointers …
Article, 28 December 2017