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A road full of congested traffic.
IIED and partner events at the World Urban Forum (WUF10)
… 2020  Venue: World Urban Forum – Hall 2, Room 3  Hosted by: IMPACT Initiatives/Global Alliance for Urban Crises Speakers: Filiep Decorte … cities. This networking event featured Slum Dwellers International community leaders from slums and their partners, who demonstrated how … ambition and innovation. The second session explored how community-led action and putting people at the heart of climate and development …
Event, 08 February 2020
A man peers through the lens of a camera, while receiving advice from his colleague, another ranger
Learning and action for community engagement against wildlife crime
Project, 30 October 2018
Drip irrigation in Faylar village, Senegal. Investing in solar-powered water pumps and drip-feed irrigation systems can help farmers survive in times of drought (Photo: InnoAfrica, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)
Building a vision of climate resilience: questions to the adaptation community
… for Effective Adaptation and Resilience (LIFE-AR) . This LDC-led initiative seeks to develop effective longer-term climate adaptation … adaptation interventions that work – what we are calling ‘lighthouse initiatives’.  Just one year into LIFE-AR, we have already made strong … that are working, and that can be replicated and scaled up.  The 13th community-based adaptation event (CBA13) , this year taking place in …
Insight, 06 March 2019
A dam
FutureDAMS
Project, 09 January 2020
Four images of people from IIED's 2021 'super year' video, including a fisher hauling nets
IIED and the ‘super year’
Article, 02 February 2021
A container ship looms imposingly against a brilliant skyline
Monitoring and evaluation guidance for SDG14
… The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are one of the leading initiatives for addressing the critical, complex and often inter-related issues of … and evaluations to support their policies with evidence. Nationally-led exercises to monitor, review and assess benefits and … Sustainable markets … Monitoring and evaluation guidance for SDG14 …
Project, 29 July 2019
A small brick building with two steps leading to a corrugated iron door houses a pit latrine.
The case for sewers
… if consideration is given to recurrent running costs. The following initiatives show some clever ways to lower costs. The Orangi Pilot … to low-income residents by cutting costs and combining household, community and government resources. Communities did the ‘small … Development Institute (CODI) in Thailand supported community-led upgrading of informal settlements (PDF)  that included connections …
Insight, 19 November 2021
People gathering branches
Nature-based solutions to climate change: stories from Chile
Insight, 12 December 2019
Screengrab of a map of indigenous peoples’ territories in the Peruvian Amazon (Image: IBC Peru)
Creating a global 'land rights family': from knowledge to action
… issues. In February an ambitious knowledge-exchange programme – led by the International Land Coalition (ILC), Namati and IIED – was launched with an eight-day event in Kenya. The Community Land Initiative seeks to facilitate an international exchange … 1998 and assisting communities in securing community land titles for their territories. Today IBC has the most extensive land registry in …
Insight, 14 March 2018
A group of people stand around a map on a table.
Kota Kita: facilitating citizen-led urban development
Article, 22 February 2022