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Chart showing decentralised energy access – finance needed and contribution of climate finance (Image: Sarah Best/IIED)
The Green Climate Fund: will the vulnerable be overlooked in a rush to spend?
Insight, 24 June 2016
women distributing counting eggs
New narratives for a 'new normal'
… door-to-door disseminating information on the housing reconstruction programme, and reported back to government on implementation problems.  … socially marginalised communities.  It is therefore vital to sustain community networks and maintain their visibility as drivers of … Africa Nigeria, Malawi and Zimbabwe, explored many possibilities based on stories of mask-making, soapmaking, quarantine management and …
Insight, 22 July 2020
A group of people gather around a pile of potatoes with mountains as a backdrop
Indigenous Peoples’ food systems hold the key to feeding humanity
… representatives stressed that their ancestral food systems, based on centuries of accumulated wisdom, are not only crucial for food … with scientists. Indigenous food systems from Chad to China are based on ‘seven generation thinking’ – that seeks to ensure future food …
Insight, 23 October 2020
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
Cua Van floating village, Ha Long Bay, Vietnam. Copyright Suzanne Fisher Murray
Building one village’s resilience to climate change starts with a cave
Insight, 19 April 2012
Evelyne Flora Latabu shaking a bowl of grains.
The Ugandan diet: food voices and choices
… A photographic exhibition curated by the Sustainable Diets for All programme explored the Ugandan diet through testimonies from farmers, … I would like to transfer my knowledge to as many people in my community as possible.” Hellen Sally Akumu , 28, is a farmer and diet … but would like to do more. “I make decisions about what I will plant based on environmental conservation, income generation, good diet and …
Insight, 24 October 2019
Women pulling fishing nets through shallow water
Steering gender to the centre of the blue economy
… frequently lack ambition or are limited in scope. If a project or programme does not address gender adequately, the views and needs of … to implementation, whether talking about fiscal policy and incentive-based management, or natural capital accounting, or impact investment or …
Insight, 06 June 2019
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
… Over the past 20 years market-based instruments, such as payments for ecosystem services (PES) and … and what is necessary to upscale from local project to national programme. Our project aims to harness this experience, gathering inputs from the research and academic community to inform practitioners and policymakers about what works and …
Project, 26 April 2016
A cook serves food to a group of children
Q&A: Encouraging the availability of healthy and diverse foods for students
… habits. Now, as a teacher at Roudlotul Atal Nuruzzaman, an Islamic-based kindergarten in Jember District, of the East Java province in … of a healthy canteen is creating a push for healthy eating within the community and is expected to become a model for other schools in the … Hivos and IIED, in collaboration with  BrandOutLoud , for the SD4All programme. The healthy canteen programme has not reached 100% awareness …
Article, 29 October 2019
Men present findings on a large map at the front of a community meeting
How can we incorporate local knowledge into climate planning and policy? …Maps!
Insight, 17 January 2020