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Forests, resilience and climate change
… action plans for institutional capacity building and effective adaptation. What IIED did A workshop was held with participants from … the possible challenges to forest-based livelihoods, and this led to an informal international network on forestry issues within …
Project, 11 June 2008
Residents of Sitio San Roque, Philippines, watch a demolition team tear down their houses during an eviction (Photo: Alamy)
Briefing: Will Habitat III produce an effective "new urban agenda?"
… decades of experience working on urban issues. During the 1990s he led the urban environment programme at the Stockholm Environment … London. He was a co-ordinating lead author of the chapter on urban adaptation in the Fifth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on … adaptation, urban livelihoods in the context of climate change and community-based environmental management. His work has a particular …
Event, 05 May 2016
Learning route participants interact with local communities in Isiolo, Kenya (Photo: Timothy Mwaura/CGIAR)
Seven ways to build resilient local economies in fragile contexts
Insight, 24 August 2016
Isiolo County, Kenya: dryland areas make up more than 80 per cent of Kenya's land and are home to some four million pastoralists (Photo: James Patison/IIED)
A new approach to climate resilient drylands agriculture
… reflected within its pages. This book provides new and compelling community perspectives that policy-led strategies for the drylands need to adapt if they are to be truly … IIED, Drylands Learning and Capacity Building Initiative (DLCI), the Adaptation Consortium and funded by the Ford Foundation . Notes to …
News, 27 April 2015
A woman carrying groceries in the village of Bouwéré, Mali. Assessments looked at how women experienced resilience to climate disruption (Photo: P.Casier/CGIAR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Monitoring and evaluation in a local context
Insight, 18 July 2016
Members of the Zimbabwe Homeless People's Federation learn techniques for building houses on land that is affected by climate-related hazards, including waterlogging. Picture: David Dodman.
12 Christmas crackers from IIED
… 1. Climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation in Zimbabwe This report says Zimbabwe's climate change … the report or read the press release . 6. Dispute or Dialogue? Community perspectives on company-led grievance mechanisms This book shows that giant mining, timber, and …
Article, 27 December 2013
People wearing face masks and medical suits
IIED's best of 2020: blogs
… growth rates – although they inevitably did when they were smaller. 2 Community-led COVID-19 response: the work of the Philippines Homeless People’s … They drew on responses to a questionnaire conducted by federation community leaders, and a teleconference where  experiences from the …
Article, 22 December 2020
Cecil the lion, who was controversially hunted and killed last week, is pictured in 2014. But a ban on trophy hunting may not save lions and have unintended consequences (Photo: Vince O'Sullivan, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
IIED's best of 2015: blogs
… decide? July: Outrage over the illegal killing of Cecil the lion led to calls for a ban on trophy hunting, but would this have the … biggest development challenges facing Africa today. How do we measure adaptation? March: As funding to support adaptation to climate change … and mitigation, and previews the 9th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA). The main challenge is whether to …
Article, 22 December 2015
The slogan on a woman T-shirt in Kitwe, Zambia - emblazoned with 'Addressing water and sanitation challenges through city-wide partnerships' - highlights the community-led approach (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
Local funds allow informal-settlement residents to shape development
… side event organised with partners. Part of the answer could lie in community finance. What is community finance? Across towns and cities in … designed to show the local authority the potential of community-led development has led to new secure homes for 50 families. In Jinja, … arising from climate change. Much of the 'heavy lifting' of urban adaptation will be done by the people who live in these settlements. Yet …
Insight, 01 November 2016
IIED's Andrew Norton and IIED chair Rebeca Grynspan with Gro Harlem Brundtland sit at the front of the Barbara Ward lecture on 19 June 2018
Come on board: IIED seeks new chair
… analysis of the changing context of our work, our current chair led the board to push us to be focused, clear, ambitious and confident …
Insight, 10 May 2019