Search results

318 results
women distributing counting eggs
New narratives for a 'new normal'
… grassroots women have dealt with disasters to get communities back on their feet. For instance: In the most remote parts of Honduras, … information on the housing reconstruction programme, and reported back to government on implementation problems.  In the Philippines, … )   Grassroots organisations’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic are building on years of organising, learning and collective …
Insight, 22 July 2020
The opening of the UN climate change talks in Bonn in June. The negotiators meet in Bonn again this week (Photo: UNClimatechange, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Climate negotiations: the last stop before Paris
Insight, 19 October 2015
Farmers looking at plants
Nature 4 Development – introducing IIED’s new 2020 initiative
… to make progress on, and raise the profile of, a common agenda. Back in the early 2000s, IIED worked with the New Economics Foundation …
Insight, 29 January 2020
A man stands behind an electricity generator
Energy literacy for all? Cracking the very hard 'soft side' of energy development
… a universal basecoat.  But in this holy trio, are we taking capacity-building issues seriously enough? My sense is that even champions of … or wonder technologies and pro-poor business models. Capacity building? Booorrrring. But the thing is, without awareness, knowledge … or job stability to do anything much with their new knowledge when back at their desks. The way forward I would like to hear from …
Insight, 22 September 2014
50 years
IIED at 50: protecting people and planet for half a century
Article, 08 June 2021
Woman filling jerry cans with water
Sleepwalking into COP26 collapse – why the UK must drop its aid cuts
Insight, 04 May 2021
A busy street
The rise of Nairobi’s concrete tenement jungle
… On the balconies, some tenants pass time in the only place where the building opens up to the air outside. This is something of a luxury – … again from the only tap on the floor (sometimes the only one in the building) and queues are building up. The building caretaker scales the floors letting tenants know the vital service is on again. Back outside, as the evening closes in, pedestrians pour to and from the …
Insight, 31 July 2019
Cover for 17092IIED.pdf
Money matters: cash transfers for adaptation
Publication, 01 April 2011
The UN Climate Action Summit
Real climate ambition means switching to 'business unusual'
Insight, 04 October 2019
A women puts food into an outdoor oven
Keeping Bolivia’s culture alive through food
… food for much more than nurturing our bodies. Food is crucial for building and strengthening cultures. It brings societies together, … chefs, restaurateurs and customers to get traditional Bolivian food back on the menu. To do so they use MIGA’s ‘Regional Food Heritage … In short, the approach is designed to help the Bolivian people fall (back) in love with their country’s indigenous foods. On a mission to …
Insight, 18 June 2019