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Syria refugees in Lebanon learn how to make fishing nets, a skill which will help them find work along the northern coast (Photo: DFID, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Why urbanisation matters in responding to humanitarian crises
… to more than 80,000 people is estimated to cost the international community more than USD $500,000 per day to run – there are also sound … head of IIED's Human Settlements Group and team leader for cities and climate change.  Note: this blog was informed by discussions at a workshop …
Insight, 15 September 2015
Mountains, forests and rice paddies in Nepal. Photo: Sajal Sthapit
Forest businesses 'fit for life'
… held in Nepal (12-15 February 2013). Nepal is a world leader in community forestry, with roughly 18,000 groups established across 1.8 … income generation, gender equity, food security, energy security, climate change mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity conservation and soil …
Insight, 18 February 2013
Crowdsourcing evidence – such as from these food vendors in Fort Portal, Uganda – is vital to foster citizens agency. But you must engage and listen (Photo: Sven Torfinn/Panos Pictures)
Encouraging dialogue and dissent
… Trade and Development Cooperation, Lilianne Ploumen, the programme is based on her belief that "strong civil society organisations make it … a confidence, a collective responsibility, an energy that can make change happen and we need that. We need to do things differently and we … together.   With the complex challenges we face going forward – climate change, fragile states, migrations – adaptation and innovation …
Insight, 15 March 2016
Participants in IIED's 2015 Communications Learning Week join in a session on audience mapping (Photo: Kate Wilson/IIED)
Effective policy influence with a four-point plan
… based on inter-cultural and power relations at national, local and community level, means it is very hard to understand the nuances of the … is essential to support citizen empowerment linked to policy change. Our comms learning week colleagues endorsed the view that media … Haque, communications coordinator at the International Centre for Climate Change and development (ICCCAD) in Bangladesh, has recently been …
Insight, 20 May 2015
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PLA 66 - Tools for supporting sustainable natural resource management and livelihoods
… generated multiple benefits, including ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change. How a modified form of scoring, used within a livelihoods … framework, revealed how famine was averted in Southern Africa. How community-led action in India is improving animal health and work …
Article, 31 August 2013
The CBD COP13 logo. IIED and partners will be at the Convention on Biological Diversity conference in Cancun, Mexico, in December
IIED at the biodiversity COP in Cancun
… and enhancing agrobiodiversity for food security in the face of climate change, and explore novel approaches for customary sustainable use and … level to support these processes. The aim was to start to build a community of practice that can share experience, identify barriers and …
Event, 04 December 2016
UN agency ignores indigenous approach to knowledge protection
… and would limit the abilities of poor communities to adapt to climate change through, for instance, sharing climate-resilient plant varieties. … and managing external access to traditional knowledge with community protocols. They also stressed that ancestral rights to control …
News, 29 June 2009
IIED researchers in Uganda: "IIED works with small and medium sized enterprise (SMEs), municipal governments, pastoral communities, representatives of urban poor federations, smallholder farming groups, and other poorly represented interests" (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Reflections on my time as IIED director
… debates , and making sure we thought through the implications of climate change for work across all our programmes. Saleemul Huq led this … tried to provide space for competent people to develop and grow, based on trust and confidence. Our move to new offices in the Gray's Inn …
Insight, 05 March 2015
Knowledge programme publications
Article, 14 May 2013
Seeds collected from a farm in Chiapas, Mexico, for replanting and use in traditional medicine. (Photo: Ina Porras)
Conditional transfers for poverty reduction and ecosystem management
… this experience, gathering inputs from the research and academic community to inform practitioners and policymakers about what works and … or which deliver public goods. Both PES and CST involve a reward to change behaviour. While CSTs benefit primarily the person receiving the … land practices in watersheds to provide cleaner water, and increased climate resilience in supply chains by planting trees in small coffee …
Project, 26 April 2016