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Food vendors give people living in Nairobi's informal settlements easy access to fresh food (Photo: Grace Githiri)
Nourishing livelihoods: the food vendors sustaining Nairobi's slums
… livelihoods. Shared learning, training, and advocacy Grassroots-led research in Nairobi's informal settlements has highlighted the … Nairobi's informal settlements (also, see the ' Cooking up a storm : community-led mapping and advocacy with food vendors in Nairobi's … Health and Research Centre .  Nancy Njoki, an FVA leader, said these initiatives have enhanced environmental awareness among vendors, who …
Insight, 15 January 2016
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 5 Using participatory appraisal methods to review a sanitation and hygiene programme in Southern Niger
… number of objectives with varying degrees of relevance to health and community Knowledge on water, sanitation and health was feasibility. It was also clear that the programme high, but had not led to adequate conditions and did not make best use of participatory …
Publication, 01 January 1997
Commercial logging in Tengchong, China. Photo: Simon Lim
Supporting locally-controlled forest enterprises
… Much of this work has been captured in a series of partner-led books and reports that document the nature and scale of such … We also work closely with the three international alliances of community, indigenous and family foresters — the Three Rights-Holders’ …
Article, 11 September 2013
Seaweed farming in Nusa Lembongan, Bali, is an example of an alternative livelihood project (Photo: Yeowatzup via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Are "alternative livelihoods" projects effective?
… resort in Raja Ampat, Indonesia is an example of a conservation and community engagement programme . It employs around 120 local people, … debatable whether biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation initiatives, including alternative livelihoods projects, are successful. … "appropriate measures of success", it asks? This lack of evidence led the IUCN World Conservation Congress to pass a resolution last year …
Insight, 04 February 2014
AdMit
… affected by climate change and there is an urgent need to fund community-led adaptation. So how do offsets fail to deliver? The following are …
Project, 05 September 2008
Man on a dried beach. Palm trees with roots uncovered.
IIED at 50: making IIED future fit
Article, 20 December 2021
Market Analysis and Development training course participants (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Bolivia's indigenous peoples drive forest farm innovation to benefit Mother Earth
… challenge of representation is complicated on two fronts. First, many community-level organisations are not yet fully registered or legalised. … Organisations) to broaden and accelerate legal registration at community-level. Secondly, many of the community-based forest farm … buyer, and that buyer failed to pay – the lack of operational capital led to demoralisation within the business and almost complete …
Insight, 25 November 2014
A young parliamentarian addresses the Shadow Children’s Parliament in Lesotho, Credit: World Vision Lesotho
What makes a citizen?
… question put to these young people was, “Why did you attack your own community?”  The response was: “What community?” There is a link between … of their own rights. Since the riots, there have been numerous initiatives aimed at greater community cohesion in affected areas, and many of these have been community-led and have challenged prevailing institutional structures. They have …
Insight, 09 January 2012
Esther Msafiri demonstrates using electricity for oil pressing in Njombe region, Tanzania (Photo: Sarah Best/IIED)
Powering local development in Tanzania
… research was conducted in Njombe and Mwanza regions and covered two community-run hydro projects established by NGOs CEFA and ACRA , as well … what operators can do to build demand for energy. The research has led to three key recommendations: 1. Use grant funds to incentivise … Establishing agricultural enterprises which are integrated with a community-owned energy utility, providing an anchor client and driving …
Insight, 24 February 2017
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
Insight, 17 December 2015