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Aerial view on Sao Paulo showing different types of housing like sky scrappers and slums.
SECURe: Strengthening and Enhancing Contextual Urban Resilience
… marginalise informal settlement dwellers, restricting their access to resources and decision-making processes. For this reason, … development and adaptation are shaped by dynamic socio-economic, environmental and technological interactions. In response, urban … of water, sanitation and hygiene services, and enhancing women's participation in decision-making. Durban, South Africa:   the SECURe …
Project, 01 April 2025
Natural capital accounting can help monitor progress against Sustainable Development Goals indicators (Photo: Rosalind Goodrich/IIED)
Making the link between the SDGs and natural capital accounting
… tool to monitor progress against SDG indicators, with the System for Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA) providing a structure that delivers consistent, comparable information from one year to another. This was seen to be especially … Overall, the forum was another successful event with a high level of participation and optimism about what is beginning to be achieved, but …
Insight, 03 January 2018
A seated panel of four people listen to a speech given by a remote colleague on a television screen positioned to their left.
Europe needs transformational adaptation: lessons from the frontline
Insight, 16 August 2023
A protest march
Empowering women and youth for transformative climate and environment justice
Insight, 14 May 2020
Cover for 14574IIED.pdf
Public Participation and Oil Exploitation in Uganda
… first analyses the adequacy of the existing legal framework on access to information~and participation. Its findings show that although law and policy in Uganda … Public Participation and Oil Exploitation in Uganda …
Publication, 01 December 2008
A forested area in Mondulkiri province, eastern Cambodia that is being cut down and burned. Few trees remain standing in the picture.
Journalists are dying – literally — to tell stories of environmental plunder
… by almost all nations on Earth to ensure that the public has access to adequate information about the environment and can participate in decision-making about how it is managed. Press freedom is key to … Journalists are dying – literally — to tell stories of environmental plunder …
Insight, 19 September 2012
A group of people sit on the floor in a circle. A woman on her feet is reading from a paper. Some other people are no their feet and holding hands in the air.
Legal empowerment as action research
… gathering evidence to inform public decisions. But social and environmental justice problems rarely originate from knowledge gaps … This can take different forms. It can entail groups obtaining information about rights and how to enforce them, strengthening their … action – from protecting tenants’ rights and helping the landless access farmland in Nepal (PDF) , to seeking accountability for rights …
Insight, 11 January 2022
Two people carrying bags on their head walk through a bridge over a river
Become a partner at CBA15
Article, 17 February 2021
Cover for G03105.pdf
Strengthening Voices: How pastoralist communities and local government are shaping strategies for adaptive environmental management and poverty reduction in Tanzania’s drylands
… ecosystems, but pastoralist voices are frequently excluded from the decision-making and management of dryland resources. The marginalisation … designing and implementing tools and approaches that promote citizen access to decision-making. With their new evidence, training and … people are now better able to inform policy of the economic and environmental benefits of dryland livelihood systems. This booklet and …
Publication, 01 June 2011
Woman speaking with a microphone to an audience of men.
Every voice counts: addressing inequality in research and development
… failures to ensure the world’s poorest populations and economies have access to internet technologies, financing and now COVID-19 vaccines has … independence and objectivity of local civil society organisations. Participation and representation The struggle for effective … knowledge Research has long been characterised as retrieving ‘information’ from the global South and transforming it into ‘knowledge’ …
Insight, 16 March 2022