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Enabling resilience: bridging the planning gap in Tanzania
… of Tanzania’s northern districts to climate change. In the past, community livelihood strategies have allowed people to remain productive … information to create an enabling environment to support community-led adaptation strategies. … Climate change …
Publication, 01 April 2015
Vietnam's Cuu Long Delta Rice Research Institute is working on developing rice strains that are more tolerant to heat, increased salinity and longer periods under water (Photos: V. Meadu/CCAFS)
New publication studies climate finance at national level
… processes being employed to manage finance for climate change adaptation and mitigation initiatives. A PDF-version of the 85-page … general. This publication was written by a team of IIED researchers led by Neha Rai, senior researcher, Climate Change Group. The other … the same time, local ministries, international and national NGOs and community-based organisations are becoming involved in planning and …
News, 20 March 2015
Men and women sit around a table listening to a woman talk next to a white flipboard. behind them is a giant illustration related to climate change.
Strengthening ethical and equitable partnerships
… includes the work of intermediary agencies such as UN bodies, locally led adaptation partners and donors, among others.  We will seek to create … communities of practice, including IIED Debates , conferences on community-based adaptation and the Development and Climate Days …
Project, 27 October 2022
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Isiolo County Adaptation Fund: Activities, Costs, Impacts after the 1st Investment Round
… Climate change adaptation in circumstances of development deficits is a major … established and is fully functional. ~The initial success in Isiolo led DFID to award a new £6.5 million accountable grant (2013- 16) to an … Isiolo County Adaptation Fund: Activities, Costs, Impacts after the 1st Investment …
Publication, 01 June 2014
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
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Climate change and the urban poor. Risk and resilience in 15 of the world's most vulnerable cities
… change. Innovative urban policies and practices have shown that adaptation to some of these effects is possible and can be built into development plans. These include community-based initiatives led by organizations formed by the urban poor, and local governments … Climate change and the urban poor. Risk and resilience in 15 of the …
Publication, 01 December 2009
The Nairobi Declaration will be taken to this year's UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP21) by Fatima Mohamed Hussein, on behalf of the Kenyan government, the conference hosts (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Global leaders must not neglect the world's poor and vulnerable
News, 30 April 2015
Achala Abeysinghe advises Giza Gaspar-Martins, the former chair of the Least Developed Countries Group, in Paris at COP21 (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Women in the poorest countries lack leadership opportunities in the UN
… the LDCs that represent the poorest segment of the international community fight for equity, justice and equality. While their main priorities are adaptation and reducing their vulnerabilities, the group has recently … despite the fact that including women at leadership level has led to improved outcomes, women are discernibly absent from the group's …
Insight, 12 November 2016
Millions of Kenyans depend on the Ewaso Ngiro river and its tributaries, but over-abstraction and changing weather patterns are reducing river flows (Photo: Denis Onyodi/Kenya Red Cross Society, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Building research capacity for sustainable water and food security in drylands of sub-Saharan Africa (BRECcIA)
… of this variability. To create an enabling space for locally led adaptation action to thrive, there is a therefore a need to challenge … operating in ASAL areas Local administrators/leaders in ASAL areas Community opinion leaders in ASAL areas, and Curriculum officers in the … Climate change … Drylands: building climate resilience, productivity and equity …
Project, 27 July 2018
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
… Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) led participants from 14 countries at IIED's workshop on engaging men … in REDD+ businesses  to call for an ambitious and legally binding climate change agreement, that is backed by matching finance packages to … in Mozambique to Yaeda Valley in Tanzania, activities have: Supported community land use planning Improved biomass supply chain Provided …
Insight, 17 December 2015