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Manganese mining in Gabon (Photo: jbdodane, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD)
Project, 03 March 2009
Rural communities in Kenya are increasingly being affected by climate change, limiting opportunities for development. (Photo: Robin Wyatt)
Development and Climate Days 2018
Event, 08 December 2018
View of Harpan village of Panchase – the upstream of Phewa Lake (Photo: Amit Poudyal/IUCN)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Nepal
Project, 26 June 2018
Moving beyond the preamble to creating a new story at Rio+20
… that in Denmark, wind farms were widely welcomed because they were community, rather than corporate-led, projects. Mark Simmonds responded that there would be deep … concern and ambition, but to focus on learning from the 20 years of initiatives that this process has already produced, to generate …
Insight, 24 May 2012
Market Analysis and Development training course participants (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Bolivia's indigenous peoples drive forest farm innovation to benefit Mother Earth
… passed a 2012 Framework Law of Mother Earth and Holistic Development for Living Well – quite a mouthful! But behind the rhetoric is some … challenge of representation is complicated on two fronts. First, many community-level organisations are not yet fully registered or legalised. … 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
Delegates discuss the Hilsa Conservation Trust Fund at the Bangladesh workshop. The fund is part of work to enhance the effectiveness of incentive-based fisheries management (Photo: Essam Yassin Mohammed/IIED)
Conservation trust fund proposed to help manage Bangladesh fish stocks
… of Fisheries and Livestock, Dr Shelina Afroza, to discuss proposals for a new Hilsa Conservation Trust Fund that aims to relieve the … feared a collapse of the fish stock in the near future, which led the Bangladeshi government to declare five sites in the fishing … for selection are complex and less transparent for the fishing community. This will allow the fishers to view the compensation …
News, 25 June 2015
Women walking along Sélingué dam in Mali, June 2014 (Photo: Lucile Robinson/GWI West Africa)
ECOWAS encourages states to learn from returns on investment of large dams in West Africa
… and economic experts from the 15 states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) meet in Ouagadougou, Burkina … In April 2014, ECOWAS member states approved a draft directive for the development of large-scale water infrastructure in the region, … returns from agricultural and hydropower components Recent research led by GWI West Africa on the Bagré dam in Burkina Faso and the …
News, 25 March 2015
AdMit
… offsetting provides a short-term solution, as it offers an easy means for effectively neutralising the emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) we … 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
A Raika man leading his sheep and goats to graze in the contested Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary.
How communities are protecting their biocultural resources with community protocols
… poor and vulnerable. In response, some communities have developed Community Protocols to assert their rights and negotiate with others. … between them and the state-driven conservation and development initiatives. The participatory resource mapping process enriched the … Ghana. In other cases, the development of community protocols has led to strong partnerships between communities and others, whether …
Insight, 02 October 2012
Smog over Kathamandu. Air pollution in Nepal's capital regularly breaches the World Health Organisation's safety guidelines (Kashish Das Shrestha)
Clearing the air in Kathmandu
… (@BhushanTuladhar) May 31, 2016 Bhushan Tuladhar, a technical advisor for South Asia, UN-Habitat, and a resident of Kathmandu, tweeted about … cuts of 12 hours or more per day during the winter months. This has led to a rapid rise in privately owned power generators, largely using … policy makes it easier to install larger solar systems or community micro-grids that can send power to the central grid, reducing …
Insight, 07 June 2016