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Working with local journalists: a mutually beneficial partnership
Insight, 16 December 2011
African-style ecotourism boost for Cambodia
… IIED will provide the necessary start-up research and project-building training to "tool up" local communities to manage the emerging … to visit the project area in its early stages with the aim of building trust and collaboration. Ecotourism has often failed to meet …
News, 04 January 2006
New tools can measure the benefits of ecosystems such as coastal mangrove forests, such as this one in Mexico. Mangroves provide protection from coastal flooding and erosion, as well as nutrition for marine life (Photo: Peyri Herrera, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Action to protect nature and tackle poverty gathers momentum
… incentives. We also shared ideas on exit strategies – the drawing back of incentives when an ecosystem has been restored. There was much …
Insight, 02 November 2016
An aerial view of London. Southwark, on the left, is surprisingly undense (Photo: David, Bergin, Emmett and Elliott, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
How can compact cities keep house prices under control?
… the major roads, while older council housing squat heavily on the back streets. Cars crawl through the famously congested roundabout and …
Insight, 14 September 2017
Is this a climate change issue or a human rights issue?
… with IIED. Caritas had tried to increase access to water by building rainwater harvesting structures, using sand filters to make … suggested some ways in which visitors could give something back to local communities – for example showing short films of other …
Insight, 29 March 2011
An image of the outside of a Malawi bank, showing a ramp installed for wheelchair users. Generally the country is lagging behind in terms of provisions for people with disabilities (Photo: Steve Sharra)
People with disabilities struggle in Malawi's cities
… old, the family moved to Malawi's capital city, Lilongwe, and then back to Blantyre. Kalima has lived in the Bangwe-Namiyango area in …
Insight, 06 June 2016
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim speaking the World Economic Forum in 2017 (Photo: Jakob Polacsek/World Economic Forum, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: getting indigenous women's voices heard on the SDGs
… big global agendas? HOI: It’s about having a strategy for bridge-building. AFPAT has a strategy for making sure women’s voices are … the two groups. Both men and women’s voices are captured and fed back and forth between the two groups. In this way, women hear men’s …
Article, 15 May 2018
Do or die in Durban
Insight, 30 November 2011
A rally protesting against the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) takes place in Wellington, New Zealand (Photo: Neil Ballantyne, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
The rise of civil society advocacy on investment treaties in Malaysia and the Philippines
… work (e.g. mining, human rights or corporate accountability issues). Building the campaign Building a coalition to run the campaign is also important, according to …
Insight, 26 March 2015
Delegates at CBA8 in Nepal travel to Kirtipur Village, Nawalparasi District to see the effects of climate change as part of the pre-conference fields trips (Photo: Kate Wilson/IIED)
Crowd-sourcing ideas to help community-based adaptation finance reach the most vulnerable
… it's about understanding who is vulnerable and why. It involves building a relationship of trust with communities over time. In this … marginalisation, helping to put people who have been sidelined firmly back on the map. But perhaps there's one final element of effective …
Insight, 01 May 2014