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Man on a dried beach. Palm trees with roots uncovered.
IIED at 50: making IIED future fit
… to make sure we’re pushing our own boundaries. The summer of 2020 led lots of people and lots of organisations to have reckonings with … precise ways finance can flow from the international level to the community level − and models that support that. We’re generating this …
Article, 20 December 2021
A busy side street in the settlement of Dharavi
Invisiblising cities: the obsession with national statistics and international comparisons
… limitations and deficiencies in official data, city governments and community organisations are turning to other sources including community-led mapping of informal settlements.  The next blog in this series will …
Insight, 25 February 2020
Cover for G01614.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 7 Facilitating PRA amidst war: experiences from Sierra Leone
… acutely aware of the attacks continued in these areas and gradually community and the local structures available to spread to nearby towns. … course of the PRA exercises. In 1992, a group of disgruntled soldiers led by a young military captain, Captain Valentine This research was …
Publication, 01 January 1996
An area of forest in Tanzania, where REDD+ activities have included the support of community land use planning and the provision of alternative livelihoods (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)
Tackling deforestation as part of climate action
Insight, 17 December 2015
Delegates at the 4th Session of the Ministerial Monitoring Committee of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in West Africa (Photo: GWI West Africa)
ECOWAS water ministers agree to build fairer dams
News, 16 December 2015
Annual report 2007/08
… development. Featured project highlights Climate change Making adaptation planning fully democratic:  thanks to an IIED-run climate … Human settlements Supporting slum dwellers’ savings plans:  community savings schemes and initiatives can improve life dramatically … developing countries. Cultivating a just global food system:  an IIED-led consortium of researchers and development practitioners unearthed …
Page, 23 December 2008
PLA 38 cover
PLA 38: Participatory Processes in the North
… in Norway and in the UK, projects on urban planning in Japan and community development in Scotland and Ireland, adaptating REFLECT for work with immigrant women of Calgary, Canada, worker-led participatory evaluations in the USA, participatory video in the UK … of the Kitagata project in Japan Mitsuhiko Hosaka Urban youth as community planners and leaders: exploring their potential with urban …
Article, 31 May 2000
Buenos Aires, Argentina: luxury skyscrapers contrast with a shanty town of small brick dwellings with aluminium roofs. It is estimated that 10 per cent of the city's population lives in informal settlements (Photo: Mark Edwards/IIED)
Facing an increasingly urban world
… that space to run businesses and earn money. The process which has led to the generation of the Habitat agenda is complicated and much of … many of the themes of the recent 10th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation  held in Dhaka, Bangladesh on the theme of 'enhancing urban …
Insight, 13 May 2016
Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest - lush green landscape with river running through it.
Locally-controlled sustainable forestry in Brazil faces uphill struggle
… was aimed at restoring watershed services to the city. These actions led to the restoration of the Tijuca Forest, ultimately inaugurated as … 2,500 trees and their surrounding habitat, inside a 7.000 hectare community forest reserve. Brazil nuts are processed through a small oil … extractivist-colonists. However, the Cinta Larga indigenous community, along with their legally-protected forest land (2.5 million …
Insight, 13 June 2012
Climate protestors in Doha. Photo: adopt a negotiator
COP18 Q&A: Latest from the Doha climate change conference
… compensation. The push for the climate damage insurance programme is led by the Alliance of Small Island States , the Least Developed … It opens up a new element in the sense that there is recognition that adaptation and mitigation, the two major strategies we’ve adopted over … to a changing climate. How are discussions proceeding on climate adaptation funds for poorer developing countries? On finance there are …
Article, 06 December 2012