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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
Vietnam's Cuu Long Delta Rice Research Institute is working on developing rice strains that are more tolerant to heat, increased salinity and longer periods under water (Photos: V. Meadu/CCAFS)
New publication studies climate finance at national level
… processes being employed to manage finance for climate change adaptation and mitigation initiatives. A PDF-version of the 85-page … the same time, local ministries, international and national NGOs and community-based organisations are becoming involved in planning and …
News, 20 March 2015
COP22 side events
IIED and partner events at COP22
… Unlocking climate finance for decentralised energy access   Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: strengthening the evidence and informing policy Date: … YouTube channel . Related reading: Local climate finance funding community-prioritised adaptation | Decentralising Climate Funds in Mali …
Event, 05 November 2016
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?
… to those hardest hit by the impacts of climate change? Good news for adaptation funding Most projects approved in the last tranche and those … Most funds still focus on large-scale investments rather than local community projects; sub-national priorities once again remain on the … the energy sector, most of which are being spent on large-scale grid-based electricity in MICs. The International Energy Agency (IEA) …
Insight, 24 June 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
… in different environments. Jane Kiiru, communications officer for the Adaptation Consortium  that Ced works with in Kenya, was also with us to … in countries across the globe, the complexity of political economies based on inter-cultural and power relations at national, local and community level, means it is very hard to understand the nuances of the …
Insight, 20 May 2015
Extreme events like forest fires, droughts and storms threaten sustainable development. (Photo: Global Water Partnership)
How climate change made the development agenda
… the first of their kind – non-technical, story- and experience-based – and they were widely read. Tom Tanner, now a research fellow at … food and farming, disasters, women and conflict, and includes Oxfam programme examples, case studies and references from South Africa, Mozambique, Kenya, Niger, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Tajikistan, China and Vietnam. The collection ends …
Insight, 12 August 2014
Climate Communications Day at Doha: New approaches to reach new audiences
… communication techniques were successful. But what works at a community level – such as participatory drama or school curriculum … through maps on the internet. Panelists Arend Kuster from the Qatar-based organisation Q Science and Stuart Neil from the World Energy … Africa who came to the summit and took part in a week-long fellowship programme designed to enhance their capacity to report on complicated, …
News, 13 December 2012