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More People, More Trees / Plus de gens, plus d'arbres
… In the early 1990s two videos, 'Looking after our Land' and 'Building on Traditions' recorded these new approaches. More People, More Trees goes back to the same communities, and same development workers in these two …
Publication, 01 October 2010
Modern technology means data privacy policies must be stronger than ever. But IIED is treating GDPR as an opportunity rather than a threat (Image: IIED)
Sending out the right messages
… principal to the way we manage data at IIED? Gone are the days of building large mailing lists to quote extraordinarily high numbers of emails sent in vanity metrics. We are focusing on building relationships with people based on what they are interested in … one day we produce something good enough that means you will come back to us again.   The GDPR is specific to data subjects based in the …
Insight, 28 February 2018
A Kenyan woman farmer at work in the Mount Kenya region (Photo: Google licence)
Toulmin: "Soil is the foundation for a prosperous society"
News, 10 December 2014
A farmer tending his sunflowers in Kenya. Credit: Abbi Buxton
A day in the life of a commercial consultant
… been set and it’s not a good one. My first action is to send an email back to Kenya to ask why the flowers can’t  be sourced. In the beginning … server goes down, which is VERY frustrating). A quick answer pings  back: there’s  been a hail storm in that area and the product has been … make a coffee – strong roast, I think, as could be a long afternoon. Back in the office there is evidence that the packer has got hold of the …
Insight, 14 February 2012
Cover for G02896.pdf
Reality Check: accountability, learning, and practice with the people who matter (PLA 57)
… but should be closely related to one's work, with the aim of building a long-term relationship with the host family. Reality checks … the poor and marginalised citizens they work with, and to account back to these citizens on the work they do and the money they spend in …
Publication, 01 December 2007
Rubbish and black bin bags are strewn around
Carbon offsetting: who’s really winning?
Insight, 07 July 2020
A researcher talking with a cotton farmer in Mozambique. Communicating our findings to a wide range of key audiences is central to our work (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
Communicating research – uptake, influence and change
… research uptake . But getting the strategy right also means building the skills of IIED researchers and involving communications specialists in project design from an early stage. Building capacity To that end, in the past five years IIED has created … where relevant, influences the project methodology itself. Building relationships with these people, who might be farmers and …
Insight, 15 January 2015
Rwanda is planning to produce land, water and forest accounts to inform policy around managing its rich natural resources.(Photo: Catherine Nomura, Creative Commons via Flickr)
First steps in communication: raising awareness
… 'solid content' isn't available right now. What could we do? I went back to the starting point of IIED's model for four kinds of … feeling fired up about what could be achieved, and wishing I could go back soon to be part of the action. Rosalind Goodrich ( …
Insight, 12 May 2015
Community engagement in preventin pangolin poaching in Nepal (Photo: Ambika Prasad Khatiwada)
Wildlife crime and local communities
… are determined to address that imbalance. Some of our approaches are: Building the evidence base for the effectiveness of community-led … logic flows of IWT project designers and target communities, and   Building conservation authority capacity for community engagement: in … Duan Biggs (2016), Conservation Society journal The resource bites back: entry-points for addressing corruption in wildlife crime , David …
Article, 03 February 2015
Paris, January 2015: More than one million people march against terrorism (Photo: Olivier Ortelpa, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Rushing into a new year
Insight, 13 January 2015