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Regional Perspectives on a Global Partnership for Sustainable Development
… an analysis of the regional perspectives on global partnership for sustainable development. The paper is aimed at highlighting key messages … on collective action for global public goods; finance; technology; capacity building; trade; policy and institutional coherence; multi-stakeholder … Regional Perspectives on a Global Partnership for Sustainable Development …
Publication, 01 November 2014
A group of people stand around a map on a table.
Kota Kita: facilitating citizen-led urban development
… a non-profit think tank in Nepal, combines policy, research and capacity building to bring climate change action to the local level. Team members … living in Indonesian cities to improve local services and create more sustainable, resilient urban areas. Kota Kita is driven by a vision of … Kota Kita: facilitating citizen-led urban development …
Article, 22 February 2022
A city view of Kolkata
City resilience bonds: an idea whose time has come?
… or agency can raise money from capital debt markets for investment in building resilience. However, questions remain on their viability, … and past experiences are with structuring and issuing city bonds for sustainable development What potential and pitfalls of city resilience bonds are as …
Event, 29 June 2023
Diagram showing the traditional channels for delivering aid (Image: IIED)
Money where it matters: local finance to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement
Article, 25 January 2017
Drip irrigation in Faylar village, Senegal. Investing in solar-powered water pumps and drip-feed irrigation systems can help farmers survive in times of drought (Photo: InnoAfrica, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)
Building a vision of climate resilience: questions to the adaptation community
Insight, 06 March 2019
A woman, surrounded by a standing group of people outside, points to the floor where there are brightly coloured markings.
Tackling climate change loss and damage by strengthening anticipatory risk response under social protection programmes
Project, 29 October 2023
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Small-scale farmers and climate change. How can farmer organisations and Fairtrade build the capacity of smallholders?
… urgent need to identify approaches that strengthen ongoing economic development efforts and enhance the adaptive capacity of farmers, their households and their communities. Through a … such institutions and market arrangements can enhance the adaptive capacity of smallholder farmers. … Sustainable markets …
Publication, 01 December 2012
Information and communications technologies for sustainable development
… of millions of people. The idea of ICTs being ‘mainstreamed’ in sustainable development has been adopted by the UNDP. It has been … MDGs. ICTs acting as information conduits are important aspects of building knowledge strategies. They are useful for transfer of … of sustainable development, and Disseminated knowledge and building capacity to actively use and 'own' knowledge strategies by target …
Project, 30 July 2008
The Deccan Development society works with poor women in Andhra Pradesh, India. It facilitates a network of women seedkeepers who conserve and exchange seeds (Photo: Deccan Development Society)
Why women's empowerment is essential for sustainable development
… Gender equality is rightly seen as crucial to sustainable development, with its own Sustainable Development Goal (Goal … must not mean simply adding to their burdens of responsibilities or building expectations of women as 'sustainability saviours'. Diane … bear for carrying out unpaid work is an important constraint on their capacity to realise their rights... Both women and men need time to care …
Insight, 02 February 2016
A woman holds a ruler on a piece of paper and another one draws with a pen.
How we monitor and evaluate our work
… awareness of the importance of these issues. Both the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement stress the importance of monitoring … evaluation methods, such as the series on better evidence for sustainable development or the papers on process tracing and Bayesian …
Page, 13 May 2024