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The journey to fetch fresh water for a resident of the Dharavi slum in Mumbai, India (Photo: Meena Kadri, Creative Commons via Flickr)
World Water Week 2016: key resources
… wide range of issues relating to water across the globe. This year's theme is 'Water for Sustainable Growth', with water seen as central to … this year's World Water Week, we have collected a number of related blogs and publications to read and download. Water for all For this … price for big dams , by Jamie Skinner Publications The Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) , a partner of IIED, is …
Article, 24 August 2016
A government scheme to employ people to build water management infrastructure has supported Ethiopian smallholders and saved water for growing crops. (Photo: Stephan Bachenheimer / World Bank)
CBA13: Local solutions inspiring global action
… at all levels and scales to discuss how we can drive ambition for a climate-resilient future.  The conference took place on 1-4 April 2019 … transformative outcomes through the agency of communities driving climate action.  The conferences offer an innovative and interactive space, enabling the CBA network to promote climate action through:   Inclusive, gender-transformative and …
Event, 01 April 2019
The UN poster showing all 17 sustainable development goals (Image: UN photo)
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): IIED and the new global agenda on sustainable development
… Development , agreed in July 2015, the historic Paris Agreement on climate change, which will replace the current UN Framework Convention on … round the globe, and recorded a series of video interviews on the theme "Understanding the SDGs" . These short films featured researchers …
Article, 15 March 2016
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
… at the launch , was at Habitats I and II. Picking up on a common theme from the E&U articles, he observed that the impact of the first … Goals (SDGs)  and the breakthrough global legal treaty on combating climate change – the Paris Agreement  in 2015 have set the stage for a 'new …
Insight, 13 May 2016
Participants at the CGIAR Climate Social Learning evidence gathering workshop, including IIED director of communications Liz Carlile (standing) (Photo: CCAFS)
Which factors are key for successful social learning?
… unified way. Through building this framework and finding appropriate climate change-related case studies to evaluate, we, the Climate Change and … still work to do, but we have something that can be built on," said theme leader Philip Thornton, whose theme Data and Tools is co-leading … Climate change …
Insight, 14 July 2014
Woman puts greens on a plate
UN Food Systems Summit: it’s time to listen to civil society’s concerns
… policies and practice to transform our food systems   With climate chaos looming and biodiversity shrinking, we must make radical … interface for food systems – a kind of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), but on food.  Who will participate? We fear it would be …
Insight, 22 June 2021
People point to a computer screen.
ELLA - sharing Evidence and Lessons from Latin America
… City-based think tank, works with ELLA on governance themes. And on climate change, it’s the Rio de Janeiro-based arm of SouthSouthNorth ). The … three alliances, on extractive industries, citizen oversight, and climate change adaptation in semi-arid and arid regions, have just …
Insight, 12 November 2012
We need a plan. A plan that will guide us towards achieving real impact for smallholders. We are now documenting our work on creating Impact Pathways and Theories of Change in a new Learning Brief (Photo: G Smith/CCFAS)
How do we best create long-term impact that matters to smallholder farmers?
Insight, 09 April 2014
In Kebkabiya, North Darfur, the NGO Practical Action has been helping communities prevent conflict between farmers and pastoralists by encouraging the construction and rehabilitation of watering points (Photo: Margaret Gardner, Practical Action)
Conflict resolution: a key part of adaptation in North Darfur
… ‘Measuring and enhancing adaptation’ is the key theme at this year's Community-Based Adaptation conference in Kenya, … of such institutions, and to enhance long-term adaptive capacity. Climate change and conflict Climate change is expected to lead to … For further information about Practical Action at CBA9, check out the blogs on our CBA9 website . Jodi Sugden ( …
Insight, 23 April 2015
Women smallholders replanting rice in the irrigated area around the Bagré dam in Burkina Faso (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)
Water and land rights – hand-in-hand for sustainable development
… and partners from Mali and Senegal. 'Water for development', the theme that set the scene for this year's conference, made the link with two big events on development and climate: the sustainable development summit taking place in New York in late September and the United Nations climate change conference in Paris (COP21) in December. As a result, many of the …
Insight, 25 September 2015