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Pakistan's Sarhad Rural Support programme deals with constant uncertainty and disruptive events. Here goods are delivered to flood victims in Chitral (Photo: Gul Hamaad Farooqui, Creative Commons via Flickr)
What can Southern NGOs teach us about disruptive change?
… has been replaced by a challenging new agenda ; global action on climate change has high ambitions set by the Paris Agreement , while the impacts … the ecosystems of development – Mariteuw Chimère Diaw, Cameroon Adaptation is dancing to somebody else's music. Innovation is composing … What can Southern NGOs teach us about disruptive change? …
Insight, 26 January 2016
CBA9 starts with opening speeches - but will quickly make way for films and games (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
A community of doers: celebrating the CBA conferences, and looking forward
Insight, 28 April 2015
Typhoon Haiyan approaching the Philippines on 7 November 2013. Credit: NASA
Typhoon Haiyan shows why COP19 must deliver on loss and damage
Insight, 13 November 2013
Lesotho's population is heavily dependent on agriculture. Drying river systems threaten a lack of drinking water for livestock (Photo: Jonas Merian, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: Legalise Paris agreement
Article, 24 November 2015
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From global ambition to country action: Bhutan steps towards low-carbon climate-resilient development
Publication, 01 October 2018
Moving climate talks forward: new parliamentary group consider the options
News, 30 November 2010
Indigenous groups and traditional farmers, plus IIED's Krystyna Swiderska (left), gather at a meeting in Bhutan in May 2014 to discuss climate change impacts and the benefits of traditional knowledge (Image: IIED)
Mountain communities could help FAO rebuild diverse, climate-resilient crops
… communities in 10 countries gathered recently in Tajikistan to assess climate change impacts and develop responses to this crisis. The  meeting was … Territories for in-situ conservation of crop diversity and holistic adaptation to climate change at landscape level. This network will … Mountain communities could help FAO rebuild diverse, climate-resilient crops …
News, 02 October 2015
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
… flexible finance is directly available to communities most in need of adaptation finance. Accessing climate finance via the Green Climate Fund The Green Climate Fund (GCF) … community-driven projects in poor countries that will drive long-term change.   Direct access is the best bet for this because spending is …
Insight, 09 May 2016
More than 90 per cent of Malawians rely on rain-fed subsistence farming to survive. Increasingly variable weather patterns are reducing crop yields and eroding food security (Photo: ILRI/Mann, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: We must ensure Paris delivers on finance
… With less than a week to the UN climate change conference in Paris (COP21), African countries, especially those … much as they can to funds formed under the convention including the Adaptation Fund. Some countries have contributed in exchange for carbon … Climate change …
Article, 24 November 2015
A large group of people sit on the floor in the shade from a tree
Establishing a biocultural heritage territory to protect Kenya’s Kaya forests
… forest and the Arabuko Sokoke Forest. Forest degradation, along with climate change, is also leading to drying up of essential water sources.   … with Asociacion ANDES. We are now supporting its wider adoption and adaptation by other communities within Peru, and in China, India and …
Project, 09 February 2022