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Crucial conversations: our favourite five
… our approach to communications. In our 2019 Annual Review we looked back at ways we explored new channels and connected with new audiences. … by 2018 feedback. Our ‘alumni’ Facebook group grows every year, building a supportive global network of communicators. In the ‘audience …
Insight, 10 March 2020
Men posing for a photo while constructing a weir with bamboo structures.
CBA14: explore with us how nature-based solutions support local action for adaptation
Insight, 21 August 2020
A young man on a hillside, planting a tree.
When investors go green
… sectors and investing in green ones. The future may see us looking back at the emergence of green bonds and conclude that this was the …
Insight, 18 November 2019
An image of television footage of a man standing instead a destroyed house after Cyclone Roanu hit Bangaldesh (Photo: Google licence)
Cyclone Roanu hits Bangladesh: a story of loss and damage avoided
… killed – most of whom were fishermen out at sea, unable to make it back to land in time. This dramatic reduction in loss of human lives was due to an extensive disaster risk management programme including: Building cyclone shelters along the coast, most being multi-purpose …
Insight, 27 May 2016
This graphic illustrates some of the benefits of undertaking monitoring and evaluation, including better decision making, supporting learning and accountability and gathering information for reporting
Supporting national monitoring and evaluation systems to enable adaptation assessment and reporting
… and national level civil servants responsible for reporting back against international agreements. Our aim will be to enable them to …
Project, 24 September 2018
Conversation between a woman with a notebook and a man, with trees in the background
The Nobel and poverty alleviation: "A slow deliberative process of discovery – no miracle cure"
… caused me to pause for a moment and think about how our process of building an enabling environment, developing a co-produced research … harvesting and mapping to track our results and feed this learning back into the next phase of a project. As a communications team trying …
Insight, 23 October 2019
An overhead view of people outside
City residents and urban refugees: from shared living to shared futures
… in Mathare and Makau found the response fascinating: “Everyone got back to us saying ‘yes, this is an important issue’. It quickly became … the community level requires a multi-faceted strategy. This involves building on SDI Kenya’s partnership with the city government and with … organisations that also include municipal authorities. By building on local experiences and evidence produced collaboratively, …
Insight, 07 December 2020
More people, more trees
… interest for their positive impacts on restoring degraded soils and building more resilient cropping systems. I had recently set up the … way of managing soils and landscapes. We asked Will Critchley to go back to look at two of the six original sites from Looking after our … all their needs, with extra to sell. The group-led approach used for building terraces to control soil erosion has provided a framework for a …
Insight, 29 October 2010
Men queue in front of a table. A woman hands them bags.
Humanitarian action is part of climate response – but must be early and locally led
… maintain essential services and help affected communities bounce back better. Yet many humanitarian organisations have not worked out how … place, at the right time and minimise the impacts of climate shocks. Building on lessons learned from a series of innovative anticipatory …
Insight, 13 October 2021
Lots of people park their motorbikes to gather
Q&A: How COVID-19 is impacting rural Africans in the Sahel
… to rough him up, but the pupils encircled him and got him out of the building and away. But they burnt all the books, pens, school bags and … so they went and found the woman, spoke to her severely, brought her back to the husband, and gave her strict advice. They are now the rulers … for people with limited means. We should be buying land and building a house, but instead, if you’ve got a little cash, people use …
Article, 26 May 2021