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The Zimbabwe Homeless People’s Federation secures houses, sanitation and land rights for members. Communication and participation are central to the way it works (Photo: Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI), Creative Commons via Flickr)
Do you have the power to influence your own life?
… it comes to solving the world's complex problems – climate change adaptation, poverty eradication – we need everyone to be involved, …
Insight, 06 March 2015
IIED researchers in Uganda: "IIED works with small and medium sized enterprise (SMEs), municipal governments, pastoral communities, representatives of urban poor federations, smallholder farming groups, and other poorly represented interests" (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Reflections on my time as IIED director
… the necessary cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, and urgent need for adaptation, and building resilience.    We now need to do something …
Insight, 05 March 2015
Buenos Aires, Argentina: luxury skyscrapers contrast with a shanty town of small brick dwellings with aluminium roofs. It is estimated that 10 per cent of the city's population lives in informal settlements (Photo: Mark Edwards/IIED)
Facing an increasingly urban world
… themes of the recent 10th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation  held in Dhaka, Bangladesh on the theme of 'enhancing urban …
Insight, 13 May 2016
Cover for G01379.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 6 Delta and village level planning in Sierra Leone: Possibilities and pitfalls
Publication, 01 January 1970
Cover for G00052.pdf
Climate Change And Development Consultation On Key Researchable Issues Sectoral Issues Section 2.7. Energy
… climate change. Emerging priority research themes Fuel poverty, adaptation and mitigation for the poorest. Decarbonisation strategies …
Publication, 01 January 1970
Cover for G00418.pdf
Associations of Small & Medium Forest Enterprises (SMFEs)
… Share costs Strategic planning quality information, of research adaptation standards labour and and and skills resources development …
Publication, 01 January 1970
A mom and her newborn baby at the Maternal & Child Health Training Institute in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
New international development goals: score or miss?
Insight, 05 June 2013
Crowdsourcing evidence – such as from these food vendors in Fort Portal, Uganda – is vital to foster citizens agency. But you must engage and listen (Photo: Sven Torfinn/Panos Pictures)
Encouraging dialogue and dissent
… we face going forward – climate change, fragile states, migrations – adaptation and innovation from the bottom up will be an essential part …
Insight, 15 March 2016
Women in Dhaka, Bangladesh queue to get access to a raised tube well; local indicators about access to water are essential for the SDGs (Photo: Development Planning Unit, UCL, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Where are the local indicators for the SDGs?
… the number of local governments to have done this. Here, national adaptation plans and policies should be providing frameworks and …
Insight, 09 March 2016
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Community maps reveal rich resources of land policymakers think is empty
Insight, 25 April 2013