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Sanity in REDD governance shock!
… a very stimulating agenda and calling for REDD players to focus on building on the foundations of community forestry. 2. Just forest … ways to shift power over forests towards those who enable and pursue sustainable forest-linked livelihoods. Teams in each of these countries … what has been painfully learnt about the importance of rights, capacity, and motivation for good forest management and livelihoods. …
Insight, 24 August 2011
An image of crouching community members in a village in Champasak province, Laos identify areas where open defecation is taking place ahead of implementing sanitation measures (Photo: Viengsompasong Inthavong/World Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
An urban approach to 'leaving no one behind'
… ' leave no one behind ' is one of the most memorable pledges from the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, understanding its … (PDF)  to meet the needs of particular groups. This has included building 'central homes' as part of wider community upgrading activities … an inherently political process of building consensus, demonstrating capacity, and negotiation with powerful actors. This ought to …
Insight, 02 June 2016
An image of an open sewer in the Kibera informal settlement, in Nairobi, Kenya, Refugees in such informal settlements face even more challenges than existing habitatants to access to services, such as language barriers (Photo: Eoghan Rice/Trócaire)
Revealing the hidden refugees in African cities
… new ways of engaging with the intended beneficiaries. Effective local development in urban areas is often based on established grassroots … to realise the rights of all urban residents , as reflected in the Sustainable Development Goals , the Habitat III process , and this … and societies is an important starting point. It will require building evidence and developing new discourses – studies have already …
Insight, 06 May 2016
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Engendering Eden Volume 1: Women, Gender and ICDPs - Lessons learnt and experiences shared. A summary
… Wildlife and Development series highlights key topics in the field of sustainable wildlife use and is aimed at policy-makers, planners, … to increase women's empowerment through such as education and capacity building. However components still remain fragmented and under …
Publication, 01 January 2003
Care workers in Guinea put on protective clothing (Photo: EC/ECHO)
Ebola – what must we learn?
… face wildly different outcomes depending on their means, and the capacity of their country and government to meet both regular and … whole. It makes you ask what therefore might a big climate shock do? Building resilience to shock needs to happen at both a national and … and prosperity so all can benefit. The world is mapping out the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that we hope will offer us a …
Insight, 30 October 2014
A discussion on protected area governance in a stakeholder workshop with a community on the edge of Lake Mburo National Park, Uganda (Image: Francesca Brooker/IIED)
Q&A: How can we achieve 'fairer conservation'?
… and equality are now mainstream, including being central to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and some of their targets. While the concept of … process builds stakeholder understanding of governance/equity and capacity to address governance/equity challenges, and Where all …
Article, 27 February 2018
A man sprays disinfectant onto a person's hands
How Dhaka's urban poor are dealing with COVID-19
… – both in practice and in recognising its value as a reliable and sustainable source of nutritious food during hard times. Over the past … off, enabling communities to cultivate urgently-needed food, thereby building their resilience and group power.  Mohammad Badol (38) is a … of the virus on its head, using it as an opportunity to build their capacity and find new ways of looking after the city's most vulnerable …
Insight, 01 July 2020
A rally protesting against the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) takes place in Wellington, New Zealand (Photo: Neil Ballantyne, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
The rise of civil society advocacy on investment treaties in Malaysia and the Philippines
… work (e.g. mining, human rights or corporate accountability issues). Building the campaign Building a coalition to run the campaign is also … draft texts. The success of these efforts will in part depend on the capacity of the groups involved, and their ability to attract the … solicitor and legal tools consultant at IIED, focusing on law and sustainable development. Additional materials  The following IIED …
Insight, 26 March 2015
An early sunrise at COP14 in Poznan (Photo: Friends of the Earth, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
COP14 UN Climate Change Conference
… pride on our work at the summit in Poznan. Together with the European Capacity Building Initiative (ecbi) , we enabled negotiators from the Least … intertwined issues. Unsustainable development drives climate change; sustainable development can reduce vulnerability to it. Development …
Event, 20 December 2008
A church under construction sits on a verdant green field with dark grey storm clouds behind.
Rio+20: Key recommendations from IIED conference
… transforming economic systems for people and planet, and shaping sustainable development goals (see list of speakers and other … to work together,” said. Lidia Brito, Director of Science Policy and Capacity Building, Natural Sciences, UNESCO, Mozambique: “If you have knowledge, …
News, 20 June 2012