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Rosalind Goodrich's tweet about developing communications strategies (Image: IIED)
Planning for communication starts at research design stage
… and domesticate targets from the Sustainable Development Goals. Going back to my original tweet, it was largely researchers who engaged …
Insight, 27 March 2017
A dilapidated road is repaired in the West Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya, India (Photo: Rikynti Marwein via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Transforming growth for least developed countries
… sector will never deliver, such as providing education for all, building roads to rural areas or investing in institutions for ensuring … people and create the means for growth in market opportunities Building and maintaining a road network should be a top priority for … Worldwide remittances from citizens living abroad to their families back home are sizeable, and reach families directly. In fact, one study …
Insight, 10 March 2014
Tea pickers in Kenya's Mount Kenya region; smallholder folders in Least Developed Countries would be adversely affected by climate change (Photo: Neil Palmer/CIAT, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Supporting the LDCs on climate change adaptation
Insight, 01 September 2015
International experts on gender and employment participating in an IIED gender workshop in 2014 (Photo: Lucille Robinson/IIED)
Gender in the workplace: do families always have to lose out?
… is the fact that we work for IIED and we jointly pursue a mission of building a fairer world. Our work reflects our concern about the plight … give fathers a choice to care for their families and allow mothers go back to work earlier if they so choose. Could paternity leave also be …
Insight, 15 May 2015
IIED received some warm responses to a survey on its publications carried out last year (Image: Nick Turner/IIED)
Feeling the love
… ensure accessibility across all of our audience groups. A pat on the back… The survey results also allowed us to give ourselves a pat on the back for a job well done. Some of the comments we received are shown …
Insight, 11 February 2016
Brazil ambassador Carlos Sobral Duarte addresses a meeting to define the key elements of a draft treaty to govern the high seas (Photo: IISD/ENB | Franz Dejon)
Moving a step closer to protecting the high seas
… of the planet's surface area – remains ungoverned . To address this, back in 2015 the UN General Assembly (UNGA) passed a resolution starting …
Insight, 02 August 2017
View of a forest with a volcano in the background
2021 Barbara Ward Lecture: Rebeca Grynspan says nothing is ever so small that it cannot make a difference
… “I’m sad to see from COP26 that the trade-offs narrative is coming back into negotiations,” she said. And second, governments must make …
Article, 16 December 2021
Jockin Arputham, who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2014, gives HRH Prince Charles an insight into urban development issues and a tour of Dharavi (Photo: SPARC)
Slum dwellers nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
… example has built SDI into global "champions of peace" in cities by building social capital and cohesion among the poorest of the poor. … by middle class rights-based activists that "never give anything back". SDI and its president have more than any other … have countered such trends by promoting the interests of poor women, building alliances between ethnic groups, advancing the situation of …
News, 13 February 2014
Low-cost solar lanterns enable a boy to study at home in the small village of Shidhulai in the Natore District of northwestern Bangladesh (Photo: G.M.B. Akash/PANOS)
Universal energy access: combining public and private sector efforts
… cost-recovery approach can work, with subsidies, grants and capacity building for energy enterprises, shifting to low-interest capital and … enterprises in the form of subsidies, grants, soft loans and capacity building. People may be able to use government soft-credit programmes to … overcoming regulatory barriers to new finance innovations: What holds back initiatives such as crowdfunding and pay-as-you-go schemes in …
Insight, 30 September 2014
The community owners of a furniture factory pose for a photo
Locally controlled forest enterprises are the whole enchilada
Insight, 10 September 2018