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A person standing looking at steep hillsides with terraced fields.
Loss and damage in Rwanda: a young climate activist reports
Insight, 03 September 2020
The logo of PAGE and information about the conference on 27-28 March 2017
IIED at ministerial green economy conference
… closely with national governments, offering technical advice and capacity building services, and promoting synergies between governments, the … how economies and financial markets can be "enablers" for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement.  IIED and … Sustainable markets …
Event, 27 March 2017
Group of people wearing green T-shirts pose for a picture.
Prakriti Resources Centre: climate change policy and action in Nepal
Article, 30 March 2022
South Africa: Anna with friends and family in front of her new solar water heating system. It is often more cost-effective to provide energy services to poor communities via off-grid sources (Photo: Abri le Roux, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Public and private sectors: delivering energy access for people living in poverty
… public and private finance, particularly to reach the poorest, and Building an enabling environment to help finance flow. Lack of energy … people lifting themselves out of poverty. It is often more feasible, sustainable and cost-effective to provide the energy services poor … policy and advocacy, public campaigns, research, development and capacity-building of civil society organisations.  Get more information …
News, 04 June 2015
A fisher waits with a large net attached to his small boat
New rules for governing high seas must be fair for everyone
… for the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national … approaches to scientific co-operation, information sharing, capacity building and technology transfer . Moreover, establishing a trust fund, …
Insight, 20 August 2019
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IIED-América Latina: Neighbourhood credit funds in Buenos Aires, Argentina
… This paper describes the development of a credit fund programme in informal settlements in Buenos … to catalyze housing improvements but also to strengthen community capacity by delegating project management to the grassroots. In this … in the area, such initiatives can be more flexible and more sustainable than top-down interventions. The paper recommends that …
Publication, 01 August 2008
Manantali dam in Mali (Photo: OMVS/SOGEM via Google license)
Dams in Africa: Combining national and local development
… they were a "good economic investment".  Is everyone who supports dam-building a 'fool or a liar'? Dr Atif Ansar (Blavatnik School of … for the national and regional grid (1870 MW, more than the current capacity for the whole of Kenya) and gravity-fed irrigation for … what they think of these questions, but the true test of inclusive sustainable progress lies in giving equal weight to both local and …
Insight, 09 December 2014
Participants in a focus group for smallholder farmers and land administrators in Mali (Photo: Emily Polack/IIED)
What makes community engagement meaningful in the extractive industries?
… principles throughout the company and the value chain; and building capacity in government, companies and civil society to … forward. Contact: Sarah Best ( [email protected] ), of IIED's Sustainable Markets Group. IIED's Shaping Sustainable Markets … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 14 March 2016
Aerial footage of palm oil plantations alongside a river
Q&A: CBA15 innovation theme highlights transformative change
Article, 03 June 2021
A mask-wearing man stands behind a food stall
A framework for a transformative urban recovery
… budgets. Urban areas typically receive lower levels of international development and climate finance than rural areas, and these limited …
Project, 05 May 2021