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Cover for G04075.pdf
Social Assessment of Protected Areas (SAPA) at Ruwenzori Mountains National Park, Uganda
… the positive and negative impacts of a protected area and related conservation and development activities on the wellbeing of communities … living within and around the PA. The SAPA assessment at RMNP included community and stakeholder workshops and a household survey of 109 women …
Publication, 01 August 2016
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Southwest Uganda (Photo: Mariel Harrison)Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in southwest Uganda (Photo: Mariel Harrison)
Taking a more rigorous approach to evaluation
… used a different approach to evaluate whether the Uganda Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (UPCLG)  successfully influenced the policy … of the mountain gorilla tourist permit fee received by the local community. Q: Why is it difficult to evaluate policy influence? BB: I … change in the share of the gorilla tourist permit fee given to the community] was a good case, an example of good practice. So the idea …
Article, 18 May 2017
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Payment for Ecosystem Services in the Hindu Kush Himalayas
… from these schemes show that they are opening new sources of conservation finance, helping to improve ecosystem at large, and …
Publication, 01 March 2018
The Nor Yauyos-Cochas Landscape Reserve in the Andean highlands, Peru (Photo: Karen Podvin)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Peru
… Between 2015 and 2022, IIED, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the UN Environment World Conservation … ” (in Spanish) held during the CBA 15 International Conference on Community-based Adaptation . IKI Peru newsletter  (in Spanish) June - … joined this training. March 2019 We contributed a blog to the 'EbA Community of Practice' newsletter  (in Spanish), developed by REGATTA/UN …
Project, 04 September 2018
Aerial view of Villa 20, Buenos Aires
Transforming cities, transforming lives
Project, 30 June 2021
Group of people sitting on chairs facing each other
Addressing illegal artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Colombia
… project aimed to help create the conditions to: Improve biodiversity conservation Reduce deforestation and environmental contamination …
Project, 25 April 2023
Australia's Border Ranges National Park: more than three-quarters of the park is managed as wilderness and access is by foot only. The World Parks Congress will look at how to protect and manage areas such as these (Photo: Michael Dawes)
IIED at the World Parks Congress 2014
… A global conservation event and a landmark forum on protected areas, the IUCN … services Position protected areas within goals of economic and community well-being, and  Demonstrate how this can be achieved in … goal of this workshop was to examine the importance of strengthening community resource rights and benefit-sharing for achieving sustainable …
Event, 12 November 2014
A group of men in felt hats and woollen capes
“Public officers are also human beings”: trust and environmental governance
… argued that the campesinos'  land in the Sumapaz páramo was in a good conservation state after decades of human presence, and that the … a new páramos law . Acknowledging the long tradition of mountain community governance and use, this law specifies that páramos management … for collaborative governance in the global South, even with inclusive conservation laws. Sumapaz, like most páramos in Colombia, is inhabited …
Insight, 08 July 2020
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 … challenged the traditional practice of separating the management and conservation of wildlife from considerations about the livelihoods of … was a launch pad for a major collaborative research programme on community-based wildlife management. The Evaluating Eden initiative …
Article, 16 August 2013
Four women farmers bend over to work their land
Climate justice and the IPCC special report on land
Insight, 13 August 2019