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A carpenter uses a jointer powered by a mini-grid
Productive uses of energy to jumpstart livelihoods
… in turn pay for energy services. Targeted interventions that develop community skills, build access to financing, connect value chains and … serving fishing communities on Lake Victoria , and hydropower-based mini-grids in the Southern Highlands that had combined energy … and supporting agri-businesses.  The Energy Change Lab  is a joint programme we implement with Hivos in Tanzania. One of our key …
Article, 09 December 2020
People sit on the floor in group under cover facing a standing man making a presentation/speech
Building resilience to climate change through slum upgrading – the case of Jaga Mission in Odisha, India
… The Jaga Mission’s state-wide slum upgrading/empowerment programme is recognised as one of the largest slum land titling and … The first phase focused on granting land rights to slum dwellers based on legislation enacted specifically for that purpose, the Odisha … Act of 2017 (PDF) . This involved a massive data gathering and community mobilisation exercise using high resolution drone surveying of …
Insight, 07 February 2022
CBA13 networking: IIED senior fellow and director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) Saleemul Huq in conversation with Susan Nanduddu, director of the Uganda-based African Centre for Trade and Development
CBA13: event highlights
… More than 250 people attended the 13th international conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA13)  in Addis Ababa to discuss how …
Article, 04 April 2019
The Forest Investment Program, an example of an investment fund with simplified funding frameworks, has invested $10 million in a $24 million project with the African Development Bank to restore Ghana's rapidly degrading forests (Photo: Greg Neate, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Six steps to local climate finance
Insight, 06 November 2016
Mangroves (Blue Carbon) in the Lamu area, on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya (Photo: Peter Prokosch)
IIED at the IUCN World Conservation Congress
… Congress objectives The congress aimed to: Inspire the international community to take action for nature by demonstrating its critical role … number of IIED projects which include biocultural heritage, ecosystem-based adaptation, social assessment of protected areas, food demand and …
Event, 01 September 2016
Development and Climate Days COP16
Event, 13 October 2010
The COP23 venue in Bonn nears completion (Photo: Achala Abeysinghe/IIED)
IIED and partner events at COP23
Event, 06 November 2017
Biodiversity illustration
A brief history of biodiversity at IIED
… wildlife policy and commissioned IIED to undertake a review of community-based approaches to wildlife management. The resulting publication Whose … sharing, social assessment of protected areas, and ecosystem-based adaptation. Read our biodiversity related blogs, news and articles , or …
Article, 16 August 2013
Cover for G00044.pdf
SouthSouthNorth Adaptation Methodology
… Document begins: SouthSouthNorth Adaptation Methodology Content: SSN ­ experience and goals SSN ­ new … SSN Adaptation Programme New SSN Methodology for Adaptation for: Community Based Adaptation www.southsouthnorth.org SouthSouthNorth SSN Group … SouthSouthNorth Adaptation Methodology …
Publication, 01 January 1970
Workers build up the banks of the Teesta River in Bangladesh. Bangladesh already spends six per cent of its annual budget on climate change adaptation (Photo: International Rivers, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Musings from a first timer at a CBA conference
Insight, 30 April 2015