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Climate Communications Day at Doha: New approaches to reach new audiences
News, 13 December 2012
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
A family in Dadaab gathers sticks and branches for firewood and to make a shelter, while carcasses of animals that have perished in the drought are strewn across the desert (Photo: Andy Hall/Oxfam via Wikipedia Commons)
Urgent action needed says leader of the Least Developed Countries Group
News, 04 June 2014
Venn diagram of LDCs
Least Developed Countries
… The leading international body for assessing climate change, the  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) , … capacity of development practitioners, government agencies, NGOs and community-based organisations to enhance resilience to climate change. … Climate change …
Article, 30 April 2009
A community in Bangladesh maps out their local resources and plans for an emergency.
Lessons from Bangladesh for a post-Sandy New York
News, 22 January 2013
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… has been replaced by a challenging new agenda ; global action on climate change has high ambitions set by the Paris Agreement , while the impacts … donors and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to community-based groups in the global South, respond to these changes – … What can Southern NGOs teach us about disruptive change? …
Insight, 26 January 2016
Isiolo County, Kenya: dryland areas make up more than 80 per cent of Kenya's land and are home to some four million pastoralists (Photo: James Patison/IIED)
A new approach to climate resilient drylands agriculture
… the publication, entitled 'Valuing variability: new perspectives on climate-resilient drylands development' . A product of research from … reflected within its pages. This book provides new and compelling community perspectives that policy-led strategies for the drylands need … the environment." Many dryland people know how to live with climate change and work with variable rainfall. They recognise variability as an …
News, 27 April 2015
A herbalist shares information on medicinal and food plants growing in Kaya Kinondo Sacred Coastal Forest in Kenya
Smallholder innovation for resilience (SIFOR)
… Climate change has a significant impact on poor farmers and indigenous people in … as developing traditional crops and employing traditional knowledge-based adaptation – in resilience to climate change (for example, coping … to strengthen local innovation systems and rights, including community seed banks and registers, novel biocultural products, …
Project, 16 August 2013
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
Cover for 17152IIED.pdf
Assessing the CBA community of practice
… these. A good example to learn from is IIED’s conference series on community-based adaptation. The meetings have nurtured networks of practitioners … a community achieves better policies and practice to support local climate adaptation. … Climate change … Assessing the CBA community of practice …
Publication, 01 April 2013