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Peer learning resources for Community Conservation Wardens in Uganda
… The IIED-led project ‘ Implementing park action plans for community engagement to … ’ is developing and providing a skills development programme with the Community Conservation Unit of the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) . … Peer learning resources for Community Conservation Wardens in Uganda …
Article, 16 June 2020
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Amplifying grassroots COVID-19 responses in Kenya
… The pandemic has led to rising precarity and has exacerbated several human rights … and bottom-up knowledge generation. Our project has explored these community-led responses to COVID-19 in Nairobi’s informal settlement of Mathare …
Publication, 30 May 2022
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Win–win in Belize: incubating community businesses that protect forests
… area management, resulting in the founding and growth of sustainable community forest businesses. A project funded by the Darwin Initiative and led by the University of Edinburgh attempted just that. With support from IIED, it developed a model for community forest business incubation that incentivised community fire …
Publication, 01 April 2018
Group meeting on climate change on boat run by Shidhulai. Natore, Bangladesh. Photo: G.M.B. Akash/PANOS
Empowering communities to adapt to climate change
Article, 17 December 2012
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PLA 61: Tales of shit: Community-Led Total Sanitation in Africa
… with the development of a radical new participatory approach called Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS). CLTS has encouraged millions of people … Global Sanitation Fund , The latter provides funding for sanitation initiatives, recognising that sanitation is both vitally important and … PLA 61: Tales of shit: Community-Led Total Sanitation in Africa …
Article, 01 November 2010
Woman sitting on a balcony wearing a face mask. Behind here, an informal neighbourhood of houses can be seen.
Five years on: how Brazil’s Zero Eviction Campaign is driving policy change for housing justice
… is relentless. Understanding how change happens A research project led by IIED alongside  Instituto Pólis  and União dos Movimentos por …
Insight, 06 November 2025
Man looks at two chimpanzees on a forest path
Q&A: New policy champions communities in the push to conserve Uganda’s wildlife
… George Owoyesigire (GO) is director of the community conservation sub-directorate of the Uganda Wildlife Authority … but to give local people a fair share of benefits from conservation initiatives. The previous policies emphasised preservation rather than … planned development and effective implementation of community-led conservation action plans and livelihood enterprises to enhance …
Article, 21 July 2020
Participants study a map in Bangladesh. Photo: Isabelle Lemaire
Action Research on Community Adaptation in Bangladesh
Project, 17 December 2012
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Housing justice: securing affordable inner-city homes through retrofitting
… focus on advancing housing justice. There are emerging experiences led by social movements that are pushing for retrofitting initiatives that advance the right to adequate housing for low-income … needed to advance this agenda, and Explored the roles that residents, community organisations and supporting NGOs can play in improving …
Event, 22 March 2024
A group of women gather round the entrance to a building.
The health, wellbeing and climate benefits of slum upgrading
Article, 09 June 2022