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Three people stand talking in a street. A man, a woman and, in the middle, a young man wearing a face mask.
A just recovery from COVID-19: young people from eight African cities speak out
… pandemic as part of an Arts and Humanities Research Council project led by the University of Warwick . Through video diaries and interviews, … exclusion. First, they supported the view advocated by IIED that community-based organisations are potentially more inclusive of … benefits, the Kenyan government initiative Nyumba Kumi, a form of community policing, provided young people in Nairobi with opportunities …
Insight, 24 May 2022
Animation of a two people with bags in front of a building
Youth initiatives, key to tackling climate change loss and damage in Rwanda as captured in IIED’s latest animation
… unheard, laments Grace. As a result, she calls for the international community to listen and act. In an IIED guest blog , Grace highlights … The Like Minded /IIED) Grace also emphasises the power of youth-led initiatives to bring stories of loss and damage to the international … reality of loss and damage in Rwanda. She hopes the video reaches her community and, particularly, the younger generations, so they feel …
News, 31 March 2021
A group of people sit in a circle outside on grass.
Engaging citizens for socially just climate action
… decision making. Policies to promote low carbon growth and climate adaptation in both developed and developing countries have strong … understand how citizen engagement participatory processes and locally led climate action can be improved and fed into national level climate … We focus on social movements as initiatives for locally-led engagement and participation in policy discourses to understand the …
Project, 15 October 2020
LDC vision landscape
LDC 2050 Vision for a climate-resilient future
… of finance flows supporting local-level action by 2030. 3 Integrate adaptation, mitigation and resilience across our national and local … to achieve their goals. They have five asks for the international community:   1 We ask you to provide flexible long-term finance: to … work hand in hand for a climate-resilient future. LIFE-AR is an LDC-led, LDC-owned initiative that has involved the LDCs working with more …
Article, 23 September 2019
The CBA9 participants gather for a group photo on the final day of the conference, shortly after the Nairobi Declaration was announced (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
CBA9 highlights
Article, 05 May 2015
Supporting Adaptation to Climate Change: What role for Official Development Assistance?
… change therefore pose a massive threat to development, and action on adaptation to climate change, particularly in developing countries, is … that carefully planned mainstreaming can complement Convention-led processes, and enable better access to and effectiveness of UNFCCC … change. Further, there are incentives for the development assistance community to take up this role, because climate change will compound the …
Article, 14 November 2008
Illustration
Crucial conversations: our favourite five
… and impacts of climate change so they can fully engage in the youth-led climate action across the globe. In another contribution Joanes Ooko … blogged about his vision to expand a new tree-planting initiative . A community tree planting event (Photo: copyright Brian Ochieng Otieno, … the grassroots The 13th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to climate change (CBA13) brought together more than 300 …
Insight, 10 March 2020
World flags flying
COP26 hangs in the balance if G20 fails to show solidarity with climate-vulnerable countries by delivering action
… with a focus on climate and nature action.  4. Prioritise adaptation and loss and damage – some progress but more needed  … all the solutions is the need to strengthen finance and support for adaptation and loss and damage. Progress since the ministerial meeting, … could go further than the G7 and endorse the principles for locally-led adaptation to enable stronger ownership and implementation of …
Insight, 07 July 2021
Screenshot from animation explaining how decentralised climate funds operate (Image: Near East Foundation)
How devolved climate finance can deliver climate resilience at local level
… finance approaches. They aim to demonstrate that local climate adaptation planning and budgeting can build resilience to the impacts of … some countries to ensure that adaptation projects are relevant to community needs.  Local and national governments are being supported to  … and three districts in Zanzibar.  In Senegal and Mali, a consortium led by the Near East Foundation and including Innovations, Environment …
News, 14 November 2016
Woman waling with crutches steps outside a hut to a flooded road
New solidarity funds could ringfence finance for loss and damage
… loss and damage, on top of that which is purposed for mitigation, for adaptation or for development. Yet much  much more financing is needed: … The different responses to these different impacts need to be locally led and the mosaic of financing arrangements to support action must be … and thereby ringfenced – clearly separating it from development, adaptation or mitigation responses. It could attract finance from the …
Insight, 08 November 2021