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Supporting Adaptation to Climate Change: What role for Official Development Assistance?
… the efficacy and sustainability of development investments. In turn, sustainable development can reduce vulnerability to climate change, … development (policies and practice) can (and often does) lead to building adaptive capacity. Doing adaptation to climate change often also means doing good … Supporting Adaptation to Climate Change: What role for Official Development Assistance? …
Article, 14 November 2008
MMSD – workshops, meetings and presentations
… and small-scale mining: how can the sector better contribute to sustainable development? Project list of participants  Consultation with … Wealth: Setting the Scene Workshop on Managing Mineral Wealth - Capacity Building Workshop on Managing Mineral Wealth - International Federation … Sustainable markets …
Article, 04 March 2009
Group of standing and seated people pose for a photo
CHOICES: community energy in South Africa
… in South Africa's Eastern Cape sought to enable communities to make sustainable energy choices that reduced energy poverty and stimulated … and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) , the project focused on building local people's capacity to participate in identifying and exploring locally appropriate …
Project, 31 October 2010
Bolivian family farming organisations show a poster about their award-winning coffee business development activity at the World Rural Forum in Bilbao, Spain (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Modern food systems to emerge in new decade of family farming
… sure they get the recognition they deserve as innovators for a more sustainable future.  Family farming involves almost 1.5 billion people … the country to improve market power Technical extension services and capacity-building around land use planning, cultivation, organic and other types …
Insight, 04 April 2019
A Vietnamese man poses in front of buildings and piles of timber
Archive of completed locally-controlled forestry projects
… included the landmark book ‘ No Timber Without Trees ’ on sustainable forest management. Some of the team's early achievements … Africa, Uganda and Vietnam. Latterly, it shifted emphasis towards building entrepreneurial capacity into forest and farm producer organisations (FFPOs) directly …
Article, 22 February 2019
Green beans stacked into in a cardboard box
Rebalancing power in the Kenya-UK green bean value chain
Insight, 09 September 2019
Although aid agencies provide emergency help in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, only long-term planning can deal with the wider environmental stresses (Photo: Caroline King-Okumu/IIED)
Unblocking the cycle of water stress, crises and innovation in the Bekaa Valley
… immediate suffering. But they often have neither the remit nor the capacity to engage with longer-term environmental stresses and they … to and mitigate climate change, achieve the water and energy-related Sustainable Development Goals and build economic activity, and Enhanced information …
Project, 04 January 2017
Traders take matooke to market
Resilient Dynamism? An informal word with leaders meeting in Davos
… in social and environmental measures and come up with figures of “sustainable competitiveness”. Keeping it formal The report says one … There are many opportunities for helping informal producers: through capacity building and technical support, as done in the Kenyan dairy sector , and … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 22 January 2013
Men sitting on railway tracks with roosters. Sucat Railway Community, Manila, Philippines.
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
… security, and ensuring that environment lies at the heart of all sustainable development strategies. We aim to show how best to include the basic … the priorities of local people. This implies a strengthening of local capacity to assess changes using key indicators designed and monitored … Achieving the Millennium Development Goals …
Project, 30 April 2008
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Technical and cultural exchange between the Deccan Development Society and the Potato Park and Lares Communities. Evaluation Report
… technical and cultural exchange between representatives of the Deccan Development Society (DDS), Pastapur (India), and Potato Park (PP) and … Sustaining Diversity and Local Livelihoods: Decentralisation and Capacity Building for the Adaptive Management of Agricultural Biodiversity and … Technical and cultural exchange between the Deccan Development Society and the Potato Park and Lares Communities. …
Publication, 01 April 2002