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A calf in a hut, a haystack, and terraced ground.
AgroBiodiversity Conservation: the ABC of climate resilience
… on Agrobiodiversity gathered to learn more about agrobiodiversity conservation and climate-resilient farming from Nepali smallholder … producer organisations (FFPOs), Indigenous Peoples’ groups, local community groups, governments, local and international civil society … AgroBiodiversity Conservation: the ABC of climate resilience …
Insight, 08 May 2024
Pastoralists discuss strengths and challenges of governance at a conservancy in Kenya. (Photo: Francesca Booker/IIED)
Assessing governance at protected and conserved areas (GAPA)
… themselves assess the social impacts, governance and equity of their conservation efforts.  The other two tools are social assessment for … Strategic Plan state that PAs should be equitably managed. Equity in conservation is about respect of actors and their rights; … 2018. Substantial work has been done by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to elaborate the key attributes of PA …
Project, 23 April 2018
A man peers through the lens of a camera, while receiving advice from his colleague, another ranger
Learning and action for community engagement against wildlife crime
… platform for locally-driven initiatives to share lessons and inject community voices into IWT policymaking. It includes: An online … poorly targeted enforcement activities undermine local confidence in conservation authorities and discourage communities from cooperating and … IWT. There is also a lack of knowledge about the different types of community-based approaches available, and the conditions under which …
Project, 30 October 2018
People planting mushrooms.
Redesigning grant making for locally-led conservation
… With support from the Arcus Foundation and as part of the People and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG) , in 2023, IIED designed and … delivered a small grants initiative to fund links between people and conservation in the great ape range states of Uganda, the Democratic … getting money to the local level.    Applying the LLA principles to conservation While funders increasingly recognise that locally led …
Insight, 26 February 2024
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Establishing a biocultural heritage territory in Rabai
… have turned away from their culture. This learning exchange and community dialogue brought together ten Rabai villages that have decided … conserve their Kaya forest landscapes and unique culture. It used a community dialogue approach to share stories about cultural loss and …
Publication, 12 November 2025
A hippo in Murchison Falls National Park in Uganda. IIED is helping the Uganda Wildlife Authority to address wildlife crime through community engagement (Photo: Mirko Eggert, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Park action plans: increasing community engagement in tackling wildlife crime
… likely to result from: mitigating human-wildlife conflict, supporting community-based wildlife scouts, and establishing wildlife-friendly … as a source of income. Addressing these issues and promoting community engagement is therefore an important complement to law … While the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has a community conservation programme, it is one of the most poorly resourced units …
Project, 30 October 2017
Women hands weeds to another one in a field
Reconciling power imbalances in conservation
… Evolution identifies the top 15 topics expected to support or hinder community-based conservation worldwide over the next 10-15 years. This is the result of a community conservation horizon scan undertaken over the past two years … Reconciling power imbalances in conservation …
Insight, 11 May 2023
A group of men and women gathered under some trees
Impacts of trophy hunting – lessons from the hunting ban in Botswana
… hunting is a key component of sustainable-use approaches to wildlife conservation in Africa. It has underpinned many of the varied community-based natural resource management programmes that work towards … hunting to photographic tourism enterprises through the country’s community-based natural resource management programme. We are using our …
Project, 10 December 2019
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Community-based Pangolin Conservation, Nepal
… and the laws that exist to protect the animal in Nepal has put community-engagement at the heart of a conservation programme in the east of the country. The project – one of only a handful of community-based pangolin conservation projects worldwide – is being run … Community-based Pangolin Conservation, Nepal …
Publication, 01 February 2015
Group of women wearing tradition Bangla dress gathered in a circle to discuss. One of the women is standing up and reading from a notebook,smiling.
Advancing gender justice in biodiversity data and policy through women-led data collection and evidence generation
… The lack of gender-responsive data in biodiversity conservation is a key barrier to effective, equitable policy and … called for greater recognition of the crucial role women-led and community-based organisations play in generating gender-responsive … using gender-responsive biodiversity data provided by women-led and community-based organisations when setting policies. …
Project, 12 November 2025