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Aerial view of a flooded village. Only roofs and vegetation are visible.
Action on climate resilience is business critical
Insight, 12 May 2023
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 … livelihoods – a principle that could be enshrined in co-produced initiatives for basic services and infrastructure. Co-producing services …
Insight, 24 May 2022
A multi-tiered agroforestry landscape.
How smallholder farmers are scaling up local ecosystem-based climate adaptation solutions
Insight, 11 April 2024
Young man pushing a cart with branches.
Q&A: What does the youth inclusion theme at CBA14 have in store?
Article, 25 August 2020
Aerial footage of palm oil plantations alongside a river
Q&A: CBA15 innovation theme highlights transformative change
Article, 03 June 2021
A group of women stand around a table and write on a white piece of paper.
Advancing gender equity through women producers’ dialogue series
… Farm Facility, IIED is hosting an online dialogue series for women-led or majority women forest and farm producer organisations. The aim is … decisions. However, women-only groups often remain limited to the community or village level.  In mixed organisations on the other hand, …
Article, 11 July 2023
Woman collects water for irrigation in Selingue, Mali. Photo: Khanh Tran-Thanh
Ensuring water is equitably allocated and governed
… of central Mali, 35% of pumps are broken. The root cause is the water community's failure to plan for the maintenance of the infrastructure in … sustainable if handpumps continue to fail in such large numbers. IIED led a regional consortium under the Global Water Initiative from 2007-12 … with a particular focus on West Africa and on large-scale, government-led irrigation schemes. The way schemes are developed and implemented is …
Project, 05 August 2013
Seeds carefully picked from a pile of rotting and old beans in Mali.
Food waste: can grassroots initiatives stop us throwing good food in the bin?
… de Sélingué – a women’s cooperative which prepared food for an IIED-led meeting I attended in Mali. One lady I observed was bent over a … to throw it away and buy more from our overstocked supermarkets. Initiatives reducing food waste I visited Qechua communities living in … recycling. FareShare redistributes surplus food to a network of community organisations that support vulnerable people. It acts as a …
Insight, 04 June 2013
A Raika man leading his sheep and goats to graze in the contested Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary.
How communities are protecting their biocultural resources with community protocols
… poor and vulnerable. In response, some communities have developed Community Protocols to assert their rights and negotiate with others. … between them and the state-driven conservation and development initiatives. The participatory resource mapping process enriched the … Ghana. In other cases, the development of community protocols has led to strong partnerships between communities and others, whether …
Insight, 02 October 2012
Group of people sitting outside in a semi-circle looking at someone presenting
Message to the Green Climate Fund board: step up finance access for the most vulnerable
Insight, 12 March 2021