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Solar panels on a lake.
Organisers offer busy events programme in the countdown to CBA14
… inclusivity, the organisers of the  14th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation (CBA14) are hosting a wide range of … and local governments in Sudan use integrated water resources management (IWRM) to reduce conflict and improve the ability of rural … essential experience to this global challenge. The session will be led by Practical Action , which has been working on this in Zimbabwe for …
News, 31 August 2020
People gathering branches
Nature-based solutions to climate change: stories from Chile
Insight, 12 December 2019
Cover for G03656.pdf
The multifaceted impacts of participatory three-dimensional modelling (P3DM): experiences from the Solomon Islands (PLA 66)
… modelling (P3DM) and its capacity to mirror and address community needs, and this theme is reflected in the image on the cover … Combining P3DM with good facilitation generated community-led and community-controlled processes, with benefits that went beyond … ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change to sustainable natural resource management, from women’s empowerment to sharing cultural …
Publication, 01 September 2013
Four images of people from IIED's 2021 'super year' video, including a fisher hauling nets
IIED and the ‘super year’
… and applying Indigenous knowledge to biodiversity conservation, debt management for climate and nature initiatives and exploring locally led action.  Key events Major events in 2021. IIED followed these events … in this process and beyond. 15th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change Date : 14-18 June 2021  …
Article, 02 February 2021
A community forest in Ethiopia.Credit: Growing Forest Partnerships
Local control of forests brings economic, environmental and social gains
… biofuels and sells them largely to an international market. In Nepal, community-owned forest makes up around a fifth of all forested land, … Rupees (US$36,179) every year — money which is re-invested in forest management or used to support local community development projects. … a wider range of benefits and on a long-term basis. "Instead of being led by resources, investment models for locally controlled forestry must …
News, 13 June 2012
Women at an outside meeting sat on the floor under trees
Protecting indigenous cultures is crucial for saving the world’s biodiversity
… is effective in conserving biodiversity and regulating sustainable resource use, including hunting, wild harvesting, fishing, farming and … International Potato Centre to restore native varieties. It has also led to conservation of Andean wildlife, crop diversity and water across … by the NGO Asociaciόn ANDES . This approach has built strong community ownership and self-sustainability. My PhD explores whether and …
Insight, 18 February 2020
Housing in informal settlement.
Getting housing back onto the development agenda in the time of COVID-19
… large capital sums.   City governments support private, cooperative, community and social housing producers and upgraders whose housing … way, scale is not limited by lack of subsidies. There are also the community savings groups formed by residents of informal settlements who … supporting infrastructure.   City government support community-led upgrading of informal settlements. Dozens of examples show how well …
Insight, 02 October 2020
Cover for G03983.pdf
Sustainability index of rural water services: Burkina Faso and Niger
… by GWI during this period and to learn lessons from governance and management systems. It is part of the ongoing learning and evaluation of … Between 2007 and 2012, GWI supported rural integrated water resources management (IWRM), water supply and sanitation programmes in 13 … this phase of the GWI programme, GWI in West Africa was a consortium led by the International Institute for Environment and Development …
Publication, 01 August 2014
Woman speaking with a microphone to an audience of men.
Every voice counts: addressing inequality in research and development
… This year, the ‘Dilemmas of Development’ webinar series, led by students from Sweden’s Lund University, focuses on addressing …
Insight, 16 March 2022
Group of people listening to a man talking
Accessing climate finance in Kenya
… In Isiolo, where the project was first piloted, the fund has helped community members build their resilience to climate change through … water during droughts. The fund has also helped strengthen customary resource management institutions – for example "dedhas"  among the … of community-prioritised adaptation.The success of the CCCF model has led to it being replicated in Mali, Senegal and Tanzania. …
Insight, 18 April 2016