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National Strategies for Sustainable Development: The challenge ahead
… This paper is based on research conducted by IIED and others and the experience of many countries in developing and … the past 15 years. In particular, it builds on analysis and ideas about the need for national strategies for sustainable development …
Publication, 01 January 2000
World Urban Forum 2008
… determine their own development following a disaster. David Dodman (IIED) contributed to the debate with information about climate change, and climate change mitigation and adaptation … in the context of today’s urban challenge. IIED was invited to speak about the contribution of civil society and pro-poor forms of …
Event, 30 October 2008
This bridge crossing the Yorkin river in the Sixaola Basin is used daily by local communities, including children on their way to school in the early morning. (Photo: Paul Aragón,©IUCN)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Costa Rica
Project, 13 December 2018
A seated man gives a speech to a camera directly in front of him, next to the Bhutan national flag
CBA14 opens with LDC chair call for greater ambition on climate change
News, 21 September 2020
CBA10 side events
Article, 18 April 2016
A hippo emerges from the Zambezi near the Mana Pools Wildlife Conservation Area in northern Zimbabwe (Photo: Terry Feuerborn, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Biodiversity stories: building understanding in the media leads to richer reporting
… from print, radio and TV attended, taking the opportunity to find out about the threats to the country's biodiversity caused by activities … to explain what biodiversity was in both Shona and Ndebele and talk about the need to conserve it. Shortly afterwards, she produced her own … 2012 Stories of change: mainstreaming biodiversity and development , IIED and UNEP-WCMC (2015), IIED tool …
Article, 21 March 2016
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Biodiversity mainstreaming in Global Environment Facility projects: a review of current practice
… of impacts.  This report seeks to answer a number of key questions about biodiversity mainstreaming — particularly focusing on the ToCs …
Publication, 01 December 2020
Participants in a focus group for smallholder farmers and land administrators in Mali (Photo: Emily Polack/IIED)
What makes community engagement meaningful in the extractive industries?
… sector'. In the light of all this global interest, a  new study  from IIED explores what 'meaningful community engagement' means to different … support or the involvement of UN agencies. What did we conclude? The IIED study identifies seven success factors for meaningful community … that greater willingness on the part of ALL stakeholders to talk about and learn from failure as well as success will enhance …
Insight, 14 March 2016
Community reblocking to improve settlement design and the quality of the neighbourhood in Namibia (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
Namibia shows how to support low cost housing
… "We experienced so much resistance from other planning professionals about our ideas to set development levels that matched affordability. I … housing units are needed by households with monthly incomes equalling about US$150 and a further 30,000 by those earning US$150-460. The plan … to Namibia 31st-4th of March 2011.  Diana Mitlin (diana.mitlin@iied.org) is a principal researcher with IIED's Human Settlements Group . …
Insight, 13 June 2014
Vietnam's Cuu Long Delta Rice Research Institute is working on developing rice strains that are more tolerant to heat, increased salinity and longer periods under water (Photos: V. Meadu/CCAFS)
New publication studies climate finance at national level
News, 20 March 2015