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Isiolo County, Kenya: dryland areas make up more than 80 per cent of Kenya's land and are home to some four million pastoralists (Photo: James Patison/IIED)
A new approach to climate resilient drylands agriculture
… The launch is co-hosted by IIED, Drylands Learning and Capacity Building Initiative (DLCI), the Adaptation Consortium and funded by the … region. IIED is a policy and action research organisation promoting sustainable development and linking local priorities to global …
News, 27 April 2015
IIED senior associate Halina Ward, centre, at the Bond session on disruption and resilience in the global South
Disruption and resilience in the global South
… that we all want the same thing – a better, more equitable, just and sustainable world – we must find a way to achieve this together.  While … common goals We value and hold in high regard the leadership, impact, capacity for innovation and problem solving, tenacity and resilience that Southern CSOs bring to the development sector. We value and hold in high regard the scale, …
Article, 29 March 2017
Ploughshare and radiated tortoises that have been seized in Bangkok will be among the case studies presented at a wildlife crime symposium in South Africa (Photo: Panjit Tansom/TRAFFIC)
Symposium examines how communities can be helped to combat wildlife crime
… titled 'Beyond enforcement: communities, governance, incentives and sustainable use in combating wildlife crime', brought together … work Symposum press release Wildlife crime and local communities Building capacity for pro-poor responses to wildlife crime in Uganda …
News, 20 February 2015
A small brick building with two steps leading to a corrugated iron door houses a pit latrine.
The case for sewers
… of low-income households benefited The Community Organizations Development Institute (CODI) in Thailand supported community-led … and private providers, and thus require considerable government capacity to regulate and enforce sanitation standards to ensure public … to meet the sanitation needs of their growing populations. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) require access to adequate and …
Insight, 19 November 2021
Turn REDD on its head
… for key actions such as developing technical and market information, building capacity, enabling local participation in wider regional or national … monitor carbon rather than how to bring about the major policy and capacity changes needed to be ‘ready’ for REDD. All are based on the …
Insight, 14 December 2010
A stone gabion constructed to control erosion across a gully in the Namaqualand region. (Photo: Halcyone Muller / Conservation South Africa)
EbA Evidence and Policy: South Africa
Project, 31 May 2018
A photo of a man addressing a conference, pictured through the heads of those listening
Leading on nature: can the new Secretary of State deliver bold action on environment and poverty?
Insight, 31 May 2019
CBA13 networking: IIED senior fellow and director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) Saleemul Huq in conversation with Susan Nanduddu, director of the Uganda-based African Centre for Trade and Development
CBA13: event highlights
Article, 04 April 2019
The construction of the CCCF Mega Dam in Makueni County, Kenya is an example of local action during a devolved climate finance pilot project (Photo: Japheth Mutuku)
Decentralised model gets climate finance moving
News, 02 December 2016
Forested hills in Nepal, with a house in the foreground and forested hills, and then clouds behind.
Report calls for REDD+ to Invest in Forest Communities
News, 16 May 2012