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Three people with a pile of vicuña wool
Who’s listening? Community voices on illegal wildlife trade
… IWT. Despite their commitments, countries have been slow to promote community-based approaches as a key part of their strategy to tackle … on the IWT commitments their countries had made. This was the IIED-led LeAP: Learning and Action Platform for Community Engagement Against … event presented many great examples of successful Latin American initiatives that engage communities in tackling IWT. For example, …
Insight, 06 November 2019
Cover for G04056.pdf
CoNGOs: NGOs collaborating for equitable and sustainable community livelihoods in Congo Basin forests
… CoNGOs: NGOs collaborating for equitable and sustainable community livelihoods in Congo Basin forests is a project managed by an IIED led consortium which aims to achieve improved governance and practice for equitable and sustainable community forestry livelihoods in the Congo Basin. The geographical …
Publication, 01 June 2016
A vegetable seller with a food truck peels a cucumber
Urban poor community voices take to the stage at the World Urban Forum
Insight, 19 February 2020
San Isidro Ketchi Cuisine and Craft Restaurant (SIKCCR - San Isidro) worked on their business plan (Photo: Duncan Macqueen)
Community forest-farm business training under way in Belize
… Toledo District. Commercial organisation A Darwin Initiative project led by the Toledo Institute for Environment and Development (TIDE) , … on the conservation of pine woodland biodiversity in Belize through community fire management (PDF)  hosted a three-day business training … The training, which I facilitated, was preceded by preparatory community meetings run by TIDE and University of Edinburgh staff to …
Insight, 14 September 2016
A trader wades through knee-high flooded water in a marketplace
Community voices – the climate needs you in COP26 countdown
Insight, 28 January 2020
An aerial view of dozens of shack housing in close proximity, with colourful roofs
Bridging the urban adaptation finance gap
… COP26 underlined the need to increase and develop diverse and locally-led adaptation finance mechanisms to provide a more inclusive and … a critical role in revealing who gets what in funding and financing initiatives. This includes a focus not only on which cities and urban … and socially-led innovations (including savings groups, community insurances and participatory budgeting) may also have an …
Insight, 25 April 2022
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative: "No more hanky panky"
… spending of revenues and reinvestment by companies in-country and in-community is crucial to prevent what Oxford Unviersity Professor Paul … beyond revenues to contracts and licences : Publish What You Pay led the call for EITI not to rest on its laurels and to recognise that … in the room suggested it should be doing more, and I would agree. Few initiatives have the same platform and political buy in to be able to …
Insight, 11 March 2011
Locally led urban development: an experiment in change
… disadvantage is difficult. Although there have been many donor-led attempts to encourage more accountable governments, they have had … with governments, how to develop systems that work. Ruby Papeleras, community leader, Barangay Payatas, Philippines The purpose of this … are already benefiting 185,000 households. A second set of ACCA initiatives includes housing projects, which reach a further 7,604 …
Page, 19 October 2011
Brisetha Hendricks talking to conservancy members. As well as rhino, the Uibasen Twyfelfontein Conservancy has elephants, leopards, mountain zebras, kudu, gemsbok, ostrich, springbok, steenbok, duiker and klipspringer (Photo: Brisetha Hendricks)
Q&A: Community-based natural resource management is the future
… Association. In this interview she talks about the importance of community involvement in nature conservation and about being a young … to the demands from those most affected. Has Namibia’s model of community-led wildlife conservation been effective in halting or reversing loss of … Q&A: Community-based natural resource management is the future …
Article, 15 November 2018
Close-up of a hand holding a broken raw cocoa fruit
Cocoa producer agency and the living income differential: lessons from civil society organisations
… and how to improve the livelihoods of producers. An  initiative led by IIED  is generating lessons on how rural producers, their …
Event, 02 June 2021