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A slum is upgraded in Zambia. Local urban poor organisations are working with local governments to solve problems, but need financial support (Photo: Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI), via Google licence)
Show me the money!
… poor work with local government to co-produce solutions. But this community-led action needs finance to support it. Truly transformative development … be effectively channelled to the local level to support grassroots initiatives that respond to local needs. Moreover, this process has …
Insight, 18 October 2016
Four people sat around a table speaking into microphones
The trouble with growth: Make Change Happen podcast episode 4
… of economic growth from a sustainable development perspective. Led by director Andrew Norton, the discussion features Essam Yassin … be included in the way we measure goods and services. A number of initiatives are already under way, including relevant policy work in …
Article, 11 March 2020
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Biodiversity for the Millennium Development Goals: What local organisations can do
… Can ‘bottom-up’ approaches to conservation – decentralisation and community management – provide the answer? A recent review shows that community-led conservation can contribute to human well-being and to the … for ecosystem services, mainstreaming biodiversity into sector-wide initiatives, and better integration of biodiversity within the MDG …
Publication, 01 March 2007
Lebanon is hosting one million Syrian refugees, and around half of them are children. Most families live in makeshift shelters; some rent half-built apartments, sharing with two or three families (Photo: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development, Creative Commons via Wikipedia)
Coping with forced displacement: lessons from cities
… when local organisations (including local authorities, NGOs and community-based organisations) play a key role in facilitating this. At … local authorities see the value of having a diverse but cohesive community. Now onto Amman, population jumped by 2 million over last … In Jordan, while the initial response to Syrian refugees was led by people's hearts, it soon became clear that planning was required …
Insight, 11 May 2017
People wearing face masks and medical suits
IIED's best of 2020: blogs
… growth rates – although they inevitably did when they were smaller. 2 Community-led COVID-19 response: the work of the Philippines Homeless People’s … They drew on responses to a questionnaire conducted by federation community leaders, and a teleconference where  experiences from the …
Article, 22 December 2020
Farmers from Mali and neighbouring countries.
International farmers exchange for mutual learning: Privatisation of knowledge and seeds
… learn about the privatisation of seeds and knowledge, including local initiatives to document indigenous knowledge and articulate and protect … from India, Peru, Indonesia and Iran on issues of biopiracy, community biodiversity registers, participatory video and participatory … Ban GMOs on the lands of Africa Support farmer exchanges and farmer-led innovations The final outcome of the four day process, the Bamako …
News, 03 February 2009
Immaculate Yossa is regional advocacy officer for Eastern Africa at Hivos. She discussed key messages from multi-stakeholder action at the Uganda Food Lab (Photo: Food and Agriculture Organisation, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Achieving real transformation in our food system
… an  Advocacy Toolkit (PDF)  to support civil society organisations in initiatives and advocacy.    Invest in longer term processes:  … can be powerful and action-oriented processes, next to government-led efforts to achieve the SDGs. More and longer-term investments are … needed to ensure the scale up and actual impact of multi-stakeholder initiatives at local, national and global level.”    …
Insight, 23 October 2018
The slogan on a woman T-shirt in Kitwe, Zambia - emblazoned with 'Addressing water and sanitation challenges through city-wide partnerships' - highlights the community-led approach (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
Local funds allow informal-settlement residents to shape development
… side event organised with partners. Part of the answer could lie in community finance. What is community finance? Across towns and cities in … designed to show the local authority the potential of community-led development has led to new secure homes for 50 families. In Jinja, … for developing scalable models for improving informal settlements. Initiatives in Cape Town and Stellenbosch (South Africa), Namibia, …
Insight, 01 November 2016
A forest ranger takes measurements of a tree at Megeni Kitasha in the Rombo District in Moshi, Tanzania (Photo: FAO/Simon Maina)
IIED at the XIV World Forestry Congress
… to take place in the continent, brought together the global forestry community to review and analyse the key issues and to share ways of … world that will be launched. A short film preceded a panel discussion led by Forest Connect alliance members (an alliance in support of … and what lessons we can learn regarding the challenges, successes, initiatives, policies and strategies that have helped them more …
Event, 07 September 2015
A mountain gorilla
Bwindi: bees, baskets and brilliant guided walks
… projects including clinics, schools, livestock projects and other initiatives. And local entrepreneurs have also tried to cash in by … – either in style, quality or authenticity.  Creating change IIED led a project that aimed to change this pattern. From 2016 to 2019, we … in the project felt more positive towards the park than others in the community who had not been involved.  Our Bwindi trainees go from …
Insight, 27 June 2019