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Low-cost solar lanterns enable a boy to study at home in the small village of Shidhulai in the Natore District of northwestern Bangladesh (Photo: G.M.B. Akash/PANOS)
Universal energy access: combining public and private sector efforts
… , and real-time monitoring technologies are helping private sector initiatives to build low-income markets. Social entrepreneurs and … enterprise? Our report explores some established and emerging donor-led programmes supporting private enterprise, including Infrastructure … and risk guarantees as they mature. Customers may be able to use community savings schemes, or credit-based schemes, possibly with …
Insight, 30 September 2014
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
… resources must not be compromised. This can be difficult. For example, the influx of Syrian refugees into neighbouring countries … when local organisations (including local authorities, NGOs and community-based organisations) play a key role in facilitating this. At … 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
Some of the publications published by IIED during 2016 (Image: Annette McGill/IIED)
IIED's best of 2016: publications
… of charge: to find out more, please contact us . Here is our top 10 for 2016: Evaluation: a crucial ingredient for SDG success The 2030 … and citizens, review processes must incorporate rigorous, country led evaluations that examine policy and programme implementation and … living in and around the PA.  The methodology uses a combination of community workshops to identify significant social impacts; a short …
Article, 02 January 2017
A farmer in Bangladesh
Upscaling agroecological practices
Project, 29 January 2017
Children using water pump in Burkina Faso
Global Water Initiative: Burkina Faso
Project, 16 February 2018
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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
Business models for sustainable development
… date this evolution has been patchy and ad hoc. Many innovative pilot initiatives have succeeded at a micro-level but crucially failed to … become flashpoints for conflict and a focus for climate concerns, community forestry could be coming into its own. Collective ownership … into much-needed income. Many development agencies opt for technology-led solutions that fail to ‘take’. Participatory approaches that keep …
Article, 10 May 2010
Isiolo County, Kenya: dryland areas make up more than 80 per cent of Kenya's land and are home to some four million pastoralists (Photo: James Patison/IIED)
A new approach to climate resilient drylands agriculture
… and poverty. The book, published by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), argues that improved … reflected within its pages. This book provides new and compelling community perspectives that policy-led strategies for the drylands need to adapt if they are to be truly …
News, 27 April 2015
Rows of small dishes containing various types of vegetable seeds, including beans and grains
Madagascar needs agroforestry businesses in its response to climate change
Insight, 27 September 2019
Place forests under local control to increase incomes and sustainability
… income streams to local forest-dependent people, and better prospects for forest protection. It is endorsed by three major alliances of … secure and formalise commercial forest rights (ii) business capacity development – to convert those rights into self-sufficient businesses; … must be turned on its head. An initiative of unprecedented scale, led by The Forests Dialogue (TFD), IUCN and  the Growing Forests …
News, 07 September 2012