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An image showing a group of women from Tongaradha village, Bangladesh, who saved more than 2,000 hectares of land and 500 households from flooding by rebuilding a 12km embankment and a 5km road. GCF money should be used for such innovative, community-driven projects in poor countries that will drive long-term change (Photo: WFP/Rein Skullerud, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Expediting direct access to the GCF for least developed countries
Insight, 09 May 2016
Man looks at two chimpanzees on a forest path
Q&A: New policy champions communities in the push to conserve Uganda’s wildlife
… Here, Geoffrey Mwedde from IIED’s partner Wildlife Conservation Society Uganda puts questions to Owoyesigire about the aims, scope, and … lie in working closely with key local stakeholders – most notably civil society organisations and district local governments. Q: What’s … no tourists at all. Similarly, the Kibale Association for Rural and Environmental Development (KAFRED) around Bigodi village Kibale National …
Article, 21 July 2020
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
Some of the publications published by IIED during 2016 (Image: Annette McGill/IIED)
IIED's best of 2016: publications
… a complex governance environment affecting the companies' social and environmental behaviours – in which Chinese policies play only a small … It discusses the challenges faced by companies, governments and civil society organisations in ensuring that community engagement processes …
Article, 02 January 2017
COP24 will take place in Katowice's landmark congress centre and exhibition hall (Photo: Umkatowice, Creative Commons via Wikipedia)
IIED and partner events at COP24
Event, 02 December 2018
Rwanda is planning to produce land, water and forest accounts to inform policy around managing its rich natural resources.(Photo: Catherine Nomura, Creative Commons via Flickr)
First steps in communication: raising awareness
… This was the clear message from the director general of the Rwandan Environmental Management Authority , Dr Rose Mukankomeje, and I found it … mapping exercise with government officers, university academics and civil society representatives at the beginning of the visit had shown. This …
Insight, 12 May 2015
Workshop participants in Mozambique discuss results from group work on how to make farming more sustainable (Photo: Lynn Boyd, ADRA Mozambique)
Five ways to make farming more sustainable
… agriculture could be enhanced: By ensuring immediate benefits: While environmental soundness and resilience are paramount, farmers must … The workshop provided a rare occasion for government, academia, civil society and technical agencies such as FAO and the CGIAR to engage in an …
Insight, 20 May 2015
Report urges forestry industry to tackle conflict with local people
… (TFD), an international group of forest experts from business, environmental, academic and human rights groups. The report, written for … peoples, forest owners and user groups, unions, other businesses, civil society organisations, community leaders and government – in order to …
News, 08 July 2009
A cup of coffee. We are drinking more coffee: the International Coffee Organisation says world coffee consumption has been rising by an average of 2.3 per cent per year (Photo: Benedicto de Jesus, Creative Commons via Flickr)
A new kind of brew: smallholder coffee and carbon
Insight, 08 December 2015
Rich nations failing to keep Copenhagen promise to help poor nations adapt to climate-change
… nations,” says Dr J. Timmons Roberts, Director of the Center for Environmental Studies at Brown University and co-director of the AidData … "We have technology now that would allow recipient governments and civil society groups of all types to add their own information about the …
News, 16 November 2010