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A mom and her newborn baby at the Maternal & Child Health Training Institute in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
New international development goals: score or miss?
… framework is based on a set of ‘transformational shifts’, such as ‘building peace and accountable institutions for all’ and ‘transforming …
Insight, 05 June 2013
Women in Dhaka, Bangladesh queue to get access to a raised tube well; local indicators about access to water are essential for the SDGs (Photo: Development Planning Unit, UCL, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Where are the local indicators for the SDGs?
… on draft proposals this week in New York, there is a need to step back and consider what indicators are actually needed and at what level … of capacity The SDG recommendations stress the need for capacity building in statistics for national governments – but not for local …
Insight, 09 March 2016
Mali – A pathway out of crisis
… young men, risk joining the ranks of extremist groups and putting back yet again the peace process. Taking a regional perspective While … climate will affect the region as a whole, so a wider approach to building resilience locally, nationally and regionally would make most …
Insight, 14 May 2013
NGOs: friend or foe to markets for the poor?
… children to college as a result of the project. “But if you peel that back one layer, we found also that there was incredible inequalities …
Insight, 06 April 2011
Leaders of the Southern Aberdare Conservation Network (SACN) discussing support from the Forest and Farm Facility (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Taking the brakes off forest farm development in Kenya
Insight, 11 November 2014
Two women sitting in a field
No room for manoeuvre: debt prevents investing in the future
… inputs, but their income after harvesting is hardly enough to pay back the loans, leaving some of them destitute. Coping strategies such …
Article, 26 April 2020
A new President: what does this mean for Bulgaria’s energy sector?
… participation in decision-making, and support technical capacity building. 2012 is both Plevneliev’s first year in power and the UN …
Insight, 17 January 2012
Less erosion, less warming
Insight, 11 November 2010
Stands of giant bamboo, in what was once degraded cattle pasture, are ready to be loaded onto trucks (Photo: Duncan Macqueen)
Bamboozled by bamboo?
… increase profits, it can also increase sustainability – for example building up capital resources to counter risks of running out of money … forest and farm business products from others in the market. Back in 2007, members of Forest Connect had done some of the background …
Insight, 09 December 2016
Cambodia's rural population is heavily reliant on small-scale rice production. The Clean Sugar Campaign campaigns against large-scale plantations that push smallholders off their land (stefans_box, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Holding actors in agricultural investment chains to account
… plan when they started, and the mapping process was devised on the back of their experience.  Building a network of CSOs outside of Cambodia was crucial as it allowed …
Insight, 22 October 2015