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Natural capital accounting can help monitor progress against Sustainable Development Goals indicators (Photo: Rosalind Goodrich/IIED)
Making the link between the SDGs and natural capital accounting
… CO2 emission targets and health and wellbeing indicators. This led into a wider discussion on the role of NCA in green growth and … Natural resource management …
Insight, 03 January 2018
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Rhetoric or Reality? A Review of Community Conservation Policy and Practice in East Africa
… This comparative review describes the history and practice of community conservation in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. It identifies the different circumstances in which community conservation programmes have developed and been implemented, and examines how responses to them have led to the evolution of alternative approaches. …
Publication, 01 January 2000
IIED Insights: Q&A with Hannah Reid on community based adaptation
Article, 10 March 2011
A group of women laugh and smile as they stand and dip their hands into two large buckets on a table
Starting a journey – reflections on race and racism and the work to do in our organisations and our sector
… will guide our work over the coming year Created a position at senior management level (filled by Tracy Kajumba ) to lead our work on … to analyse our narratives from the perspective of race and racism led by Natalie Lartey  and Emilie Beauchamp Reached out to other …
Insight, 15 December 2021
Group of people sit and stand in a circle under a palm tree
Rethinking research and development approaches from a decolonisation perspective
… privilege? Reflecting on discussions during the webinar series − led by students from Sweden’s Lund University  – and on IIED’s … institutions of developing countries bring to the table. This has led to capacity development interventions framed as "lack of", … A rights-based approach, for example, cannot work for a displaced community lacking basic needs. Claiming rights is the least of their …
Insight, 14 July 2021
Man talking while two others take notes
IIED research and evidence in academia
… conservation and equity and how they are recognised by different community actors.  Case studies were conducted with Quechua peoples in … article reflects on barriers to advancing Indigenous- and community-led conservation, and actions to address those barriers. While … Treichel . Critical minerals: international economic law in a global resource rush , Trade Law and Development (November 2024) This article …
Article, 23 September 2020
Diagram showing the traditional channels for delivering aid (Image: IIED)
Money where it matters: local finance to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement
… varies by location. This means that local actors – local governments, community organisations, NGOs, micro-enterprises and others – have a … case for going local We are building political support for locally-led adaptation in both national and international climate change … Development (DFID) Partners Adaptation Consortium National Drought Management Authority, Kenya Slum Dwellers International (SDI) Akiba …
Article, 25 January 2017
Community-based adaptation and microfinance: a win-win partnership?
Insight, 21 March 2011
Children using water pump in Burkina Faso
Global Water Initiative: Burkina Faso
… of intensive, large scale irrigation schemes. Integrated Water Resource Management and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (2008-12) Context … integrated, sustainable and fair management of water resources at the community, municipal and sub-basin levels. Our aim throughout was to … (through forum theatre presentations, radio broadcasts, community-led total sanitation, new school hygiene clubs, and so on). Project …
Project, 16 February 2018
A group of women use a ladder to climb up to an imposing well to collect water in a desert-like landscape
Integrating gender and intersectionality in social protection programmes
… in them claiming more than 50% of the workdays. But COVID-19 led to a decline in this share: migrants, both women and men, left … which became dominated by men. Household food insecurity COVID-19 led to inadequate food rationing. During lockdown, women in villages in …
Insight, 07 September 2021