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A group of girls sitting in a circle on a mat, having a discussion. In the background, a poster reads "Partners for Resilience through Strategic Partnership".
Adaptation Research Alliance: accelerating adaptation action and solutions
Project, 29 March 2022
London Climate Action Week logo
IIED at London Climate Action Week, November 2020
Event, 17 November 2020
A soup stall in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Many of the urban poor rely on frequent food purchases, often cooked food prepared by street vendors (stefans_box, Creative Commons via Flickr)
How the urban poor define and measure food insecurity
… with the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR) to ask women-led grassroots communities in cities and towns in Cambodia and Nepal … food on the table, their strategies to overcome them, and what initiatives and policies have proved to be helpful.    At an initial regional workshop held in December 2017, community leaders agreed on a number of exploratory questions: How do …
Project, 14 March 2018
Woman walking through a vegetable garden. A pond behind her.
D&C Days 2021: five pathways for adaptation, resilience and action
Article, 12 November 2021
A group of people sit in a circle outside on grass.
Engaging citizens for socially just climate action
Project, 15 October 2020
LDC vision landscape
LDC 2050 Vision for a climate-resilient future
Article, 23 September 2019
Women walking along Sélingué dam in Mali, June 2014 (Photo: Lucile Robinson/GWI West Africa)
ECOWAS encourages states to learn from returns on investment of large dams in West Africa
… and economic experts from the 15 states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) meet in Ouagadougou, Burkina … returns from agricultural and hydropower components Recent research led by GWI West Africa on the Bagré dam in Burkina Faso and the …
News, 25 March 2015
US President Joe Biden speaking with a microphone
Biden’s climate summit needs to show leadership for the most vulnerable – here’s how
Insight, 20 April 2021
Kenyan slum dwellers vow to rebuild shattered communities and restore peace
… are calling for international help to support their local peace initiatives and plans to rebuild the devastated communities. Hundreds of … the values of peace and democracy will always be threatened." Local community groups in some of Kenya's biggest slums have signed a joined … their homes and livelihoods that have been destroyed. The community-led organisations we have supported in Kenya for many years are …
News, 11 January 2008
There is often very little data available about people living in informal settlements such as these along the riverfront in Ahmedabad in India (Photo: Emmanuel Dyan, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Is urban development too complicated for us?
… demographic and political) context and in what development initiatives are possible (technically, politically, financially). These … solutions that works best for them? Especially if there are already community organisations in the settlement that have the trust of the population. Women-led savings groups: plugging the data gap from the inside out Shifting …
Insight, 17 May 2018