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The utility of ethical dialogue for marginalized voices in Africa
… - some practices and beliefs can be a hindrance to development and environmental protection. Indigenous practice has been challenged by … among indigenous, poor, or otherwise marginalized groups. Presently civil society is trying to push this kind of dialogue to come to the surface. …
Publication, 01 January 2005
A host of government leaders made pledges at the 2015 UN Climate Summit hosted by Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon (Photos: Saleemul Huq/IIED)
A week that may change the world
Insight, 25 September 2014
Transform culture of oil and gas industry to cut exploration risks, urges IIED report
… – its culture. It highlights the key challenge of maintaining high environmental and social performance standards, even when speed and low … human rights, and determine acceptable environmental performance." "Civil society has an important role to play in providing independent …
News, 20 April 2011
People paddle in dugout canoes past a forest in Cameroon.
African land solutions: making the resource blessing a reality
… ensuring their equitable distribution, and addressing both social and environmental issues in an integrated manner. They’re all lofty goals: … development support to governments, traditional authorities and civil society on managing land-related investments. The LPI is seeking to make …
Insight, 01 November 2012
Mecati Forest, Mozambique: a group of charcoal producers clear trees and prepare to make charcoal. Each year more than eight million bags of charcoal are produced by Mozambique's informal sector (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)
The informal economy and sustainable development
… unfair competition, low productivity, human rights abuses and environmental degradation; while others associate it with … growth ', in February 2016 for representatives of government, civil society, business and research. This reviewed the evidence and agree …
Project, 20 January 2016
Women walking along Sélingué dam in Mali, June 2014 (Photo: Lucile Robinson/GWI West Africa)
ECOWAS encourages states to learn from returns on investment of large dams in West Africa
… findings and experience from economic evaluations of existing dams. Civil society representatives, including farmer organisations, will also take … 10 years. Such evaluations should assess their economic, social and environmental impact as well as inform decisions about future …
News, 25 March 2015
Nine toolkits are available to share the experiences of Southern networks carrying out climate change advocacy (Image: Southern Voices)
It's getting hot here: Southern advocacy to address climate change
Insight, 09 January 2015
Women hoeing a field.
Building a women-led community climate movement
Article, 03 December 2020
Delegates at the 20th Poverty Environment Partnership (PEP) meeting integrate poverty and environmental issues into the global agenda in Edinburgh in late May (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Putting ourselves out of business – forward planning for the PEP
… If we succeed in implementing the SDGs and integrating poverty and environmental issues into the global agenda, we will be out of a job by … agreement with timber-producing countries brings government and civil society around the table, to seek better forms of implementation. …
Insight, 29 June 2015
A stallholder in front of a food stall
Resilient food systems and COVID-19: lessons for a Just Transition
… has been widely endorsed by scientists for delivering economic, environmental and social goals, including the World Bank-led global … there’s already been an upsurge in solidarity and rapid action by civil society and governments, often working together, to address food …
Insight, 22 May 2020