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A tale of typhoons, trees and tiny creatures that stood between a community and climate resilience
Insight, 17 April 2012
The April 2105 Nepal earthquake destroyed more than 500,000 buildings in Kathmandu. There was a huge international aid effort, but reconstruction has been slow (Photo: SIM Central and South East Asia, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Urban Crises Learning Partnerships
… the diversity of needs of displaced people to the application of area-based and integrated approaches for programming. The full set of … guidance on urban targeting and response analysis. 3. Integrated programme models To improve the adoption of holistic responses, the project conducted a review of area-based and integrated programming and produced programmatic guidance …
Project, 11 May 2017
Sheep grazing dry season pastures in Mopti, Mali (Photo: Near East Foundation)
Decentralising Climate Funds in Mali and Senegal
… through which local governments have established six devolved Climate Adaptation Funds (CAF) of £500,000 (445 million CFA francs) each. The … implementing the devolved climate finance mechanism. The CAFs finance community-prioritised, public good investments and are managed in a … a partnership with UNCDF’s LoCAL programme, coupling performance-based climate finance with participatory planning and budgeting to …
Project, 19 March 2015
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Urban Context Analysis Toolkit
… more years. Current models and tools developed mostly for rural, camp-based settings are not equipped to help responders understand and …
Publication, 01 June 2017
A cartoon showing an adult holding a sign and a group of children saying: "We already know how to hold a sign. Show us how to redirect funding to sustainable resource management technologies".
CBA14 preview event uses climate cartoons to trigger discussions
Article, 05 August 2020
A woman serving food at a street stall
Common cause with people in the food systems of the majority
… A new report  from the IIED-Hivos Sustainable Diets for All (SD4All) programme urges caution before rushing to transform food systems. To … NGOs fail to see the importance of, and difference between, citizen-based priorities and their own civic agendas. SD4All’s advocacy toolkit has helped partners to effectively work with citizen-based actors, especially in the food system of the majority with its …
Insight, 22 June 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 of … effects of informal urban expansion in Xalapa. On climate change adaptation, there are papers on exploring ecosystem-based climate change …
Publication, 01 March 2012
Hundreds of protesting young people march behind a sign saying "Global strike for climate change"
Q&A: CBA15 – is your climate innovation hot enough for the Dragons’ Den?
Article, 31 March 2021
Rural communities in Kenya are increasingly being affected by climate change, limiting opportunities for development. (Photo: Robin Wyatt)
Development and Climate Days 2018
… negotiations, business sector planning and the formulation of climate adaptation strategies in-country. The 24th COP took place in the Polish … knowledge This theme related directly to the intention of the global community to ensure that commitments made under the Paris Agreement are … submissions to the UNFCCC on these messages and will develop web-based outputs that communicate these messages, so that stakeholders can …
Event, 08 December 2018
Some of the publications published by IIED during 2016 (Image: Annette McGill/IIED)
IIED's best of 2016: publications
Article, 02 January 2017