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The Green Climate Fund: time to shift focus to locally led adaptation
… or grants. This leaves them with little scope to finance adaptation initiatives led by local actors, people and communities. To adapt effectively to the … to expand financial resource availability to local governments, community-based organisations, and other local actors; and the ADB’s … The Green Climate Fund: time to shift focus to locally led adaptation …
Insight, 17 August 2020
A group of women siting around a table.
Learning from each other: community groups share experiences across continents
… neighbourhoods in the global North. For the last three years, women-led neighbourhood groups in Manchester, and now Sheffield, have been … As well as working in partnership with IIED over many years, SDI community leaders have been teaching SDI’s masters students at the … University of Manchester since 2011. As the ethos of the movement is community-to-community learning, visiting SDI members were keen to meet …
Insight, 18 July 2022
Community members during a meeting, sitting down, writing notes and discussing.
Why we need strong farmer organisations to achieve the world’s big environmental goals
Insight, 01 September 2025
Entrance to a garden
Taking stock: community responses to COVID-19 in cities
… In hundreds of cities community organisations developed many different ways to address the … needs and possibilities – they share many elements. Community-led COVID-19 responses Many grassroots organisations have initiatives similar to those of the Philippines Homeless People’s … Taking stock: community responses to COVID-19 in cities …
Insight, 19 October 2021
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Five ways to support women’s climate leadership for locally-led action
… From community-level meetings to international policy discourse, women are … needed.   During last month’s 16th International Conference on Community Based Adaptation (CBA16) , and as part of Climate Investment … Five ways to support women’s climate leadership for locally-led action …
Article, 14 November 2022
Truck on a road in a park.
Improving community attitudes towards conservation
… conservation can drive people towards wildlife crime. Previous IIED-led research at Murchison Falls Conservation Area (MFCA) found that … through increased law enforcement could worsen the already fragile community-park relationships. In direct response to our research … side of MFCA, the project supported activities set out in the Community-Based Wildlife Crime Prevention Action Plan for MFCA , …
Insight, 17 October 2021
Example of bucket and pulley system on a traditional well - Senegal
Global Water Initiative: Senegal
… associated irrigation schemes. Reducing conflict over land through community participation Access to water and the use of land in the … container, to avoid cross-contamination. As a result of launching community-led total sanitation in three pilot villages, which replaced a …
Project, 16 February 2018
Animation of a two people with bags in front of a building
Youth initiatives, key to tackling climate change loss and damage in Rwanda as captured in IIED’s latest animation
News, 31 March 2021
Woman waters seedlings
Delivering high-quality, predictable and accessible climate finance for least developed countries
… is also captured in the widely endorsed principles for locally-led adaptation . Predictable:  climate programmes supporting LDCs … very short timeframes − commonly 1-3 years. It is often unclear if initiatives will continue until after funding has stopped. Short-term … finance goal is high on the COP26 agenda. Now, the international community must reflect on how to make this finance high-quality, …
Insight, 03 November 2021
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Can community rangers help tackle illegal wildlife trade?
… . The LeAP ’People not Poaching’ web portal showcases examples of community-based approaches to tackling IWT. The webinar focused on one … or volunteering as rangers, scouts or game guards in anti-poaching initiatives. The different roles fall into four broad categories: … working in partnership with formal law enforcement agencies Community-led patrols, such as self-formed monitoring or intelligence networks …
Insight, 12 April 2021