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A woman miner in Tanzania, who features in a film on stories of change on artisanal and small-scale mining (Image: IIED)
Best of 2017: videos
Article, 12 January 2018
Experts available at Financing for Development conference
… event, 'Unlocking transformative financing for renewable energy and climate resilience in Africa: from evidence to widespread replication', … director, and Nanki Kaur, principal researcher in the IIED Climate Change Group, will be available to talk on the following areas: … social policy. At DFID he worked in a range of roles, from head of a community forestry project in Northern Ghana to leading the social …
News, 13 July 2015
A community workshop. Social learning processes were a key element of a successful 10-year collaboration between the International Potato Centre (CIP) and indigenous communities in the Peruvian Andes (Photo: IIED)
It's the process, stupid 
… As climate change escalates and its impacts deepen, resources to support poor … Alliance (ACCRA) in Uganda  The Policy Action for Climate Change Adaptation (PACCA) in East Africa, and The Collaborative Adaptation … and decision making should be front and centre if flexible, process-based problem solving is to be effective.  We saw the five initiatives …
Insight, 16 March 2017
A word cloud with words relevant to monitoring, evaluation and learning (Image: IIED)
Monitoring and evaluation, and impact evaluation methods
… set of skills and tools enables us to investigate transformational change in local-to-global systems. We are also considered a hub for … that can be used by countries to evaluate how far, and how well, climate risks are managed at international, national and sub-national … cycles. It engages relevant stakeholders in co-framing challenges at community, regional, national and global scales with the aim of …
Article, 01 March 2017
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IIED's best of 2020: videos
… IIED Debates series and shifting the 14th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA14)  online. This will feature insight … European Capacity Building Initiative (ECBI) , which supports junior climate negotiators from least developed countries (LDCs) to develop … what’s being said. 6 How the poorest countries are taking on climate change [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36SB3UaY5N8] “We know …
Insight, 30 December 2020
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Mapping, enumerating and surveying informal settlements and cities
… and in some cases partnerships. Also included is an account of how community-based enumerations started in India, a discussion of the role … the environmental effects of informal urban expansion in Xalapa. On climate change adaptation, there are papers on exploring ecosystem-based climate …
Publication, 01 March 2012
Afghan farmers and extension workers assess an okra field in Balkh Province, Northern Afghanistan (Photo: Barbara Adoph/IIED)
Introduction to building greater local control and resilience into agricultural and food systems
… agriculture and food systems and their resilience to the effects of climate change. Farmers and pastoralists in many parts of the world are losing … on understanding and supporting farmer-led innovation that is largely based on local knowledge and resources. Farmers' knowledge and … Climate change …
Article, 05 August 2013
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Urban Livelihoods
… groups span street vendors, waste pickers, fisherwomen, and home-based workers.~ ~Geographically, the papers examine India (Ahmedabad and … as WIEGO particularly works to mobilize female workers.~ ~Papers on climate change in cities address adaptation at two different levels: …
Publication, 01 October 2016
While one of the objectives of the 2014 World Day to Combat Desertification is to strengthen the visibility of the drylands on the international environmental agenda, much more is needed (Photo: Marie Monimart)
Celebrating the drylands
… [PDF] , often building on centuries of understanding of ecosystem and climate dynamics to create livelihoods based on a portfolio of diverse seasonal activities. They have also … to learn from people who have lived with extreme cycles of climate change for generations. From them, we can discover how to live with a …
Insight, 17 June 2014
Women distributing seeds in Andhra Pradesh, India (Photo: Deccan Development Society)
Q&A: Why indigenous seed-saving women are the stewards of biodiversity
… – innovation systems to strengthen food security in the face of climate change. The five-year project worked with indigenous and traditional … on forests.  In Guangxi, Southwest China, village women involved in a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) initiative supported by the Centre …
Article, 18 October 2018