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CBA12: Key messages
… focused on getting local experience on climate action heard. The CBA community of practice shared innovation, discussed getting climate … – ensuring what takes place supports national policy, and Community-led decision making is essential to ensure adaptation projects really … approach, hence the past and present emphasis on integrated watershed resource management (IWRM) and ecosystems-based adaptation (EBA). This …
Article, 11 June 2018
A canopy above the entrance to a mine. Written on the canopy is 'Bienvenidos a Marmato" - welcome to Marmato
Mining reforms have left Colombia’s artisanal miners behind
… permits and seize equipment of those deemed non-compliant. This has led to artisanal miners being portrayed, and treated, as criminals.   … valuable contributions to this blog. This blog is linked to an IIED-led Impact and Learning Exercise on rethinking the settlement of … Natural resource management …
Insight, 15 April 2020
Nearly 80 per cent of Dar es Salaam's residents live in informal settlements, and less than 10 per cent of the city has sewer access (Photo: Anna Walnycki/IIED)
Connecting settlements, cities and basins: realising SDG 6 at scale
… the rapid growth of some urban populations between 1999 and 2015 has led to the percentage of people with better water or sanitation access … when sufficient finance cannot be secured . Examining need, use and resource – at three different levels Realising universal access to water … of water needs, use and resources. Work undertaken at the community level by the Tanzanian Centre for Community Initiatives , IIED …
Insight, 25 August 2016
A photo of a man addressing a conference, pictured through the heads of those listening
Leading on nature: can the new Secretary of State deliver bold action on environment and poverty?
… justice approach to climate finance – leading the international community in a push to get more effective support to people at the … crisis. Biodiversity – rediscovering leadership DFID has in the past led the way on biodiversity and its links to development and poverty … every opportunity to maximise the returns that sustainable wildlife management can bring. But less charismatic biodiversity needs attention …
Insight, 31 May 2019
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REDD+ in dryland forests: Issues and prospects for pro-poor REDD in the miombo woodlands of southern Africa
… requires a supportive policy, legal and institutional environment. Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in the miombo ecoregion of east and southern … market value to commonly controlled resources and facilitate market-led conservation, leading to some successful sustainable management of …
Publication, 01 May 2010
Protecting needs of forest-dependent people is key to saving Congo Basin forests
… in Yaoundé from 6-8 February, was organised by CoNGOs – a consortium led by IIED that includes event organisers Fern , the Centre for … Currently, only a small fraction of the land in the region is under community control. It is vital they allow indigenous peoples, who have … part of this, ClientEarth launched Communities at the heart of forest management: how can the law make a difference? , proposing …
News, 08 February 2019
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
… farmers and herders see the inherent variability of the drylands as a resource to be valued, rather than a problem to be avoided: they work … 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
Example of bucket and pulley system on a traditional well - Senegal
Global Water Initiative: Senegal
… associated irrigation schemes. Reducing conflict over land through community participation Access to water and the use of land in the … river basin to promote understanding and implementation of local resource use agreements known as 'Land use and allocation plans' (Plans … to avoid cross-contamination. As a result of launching community-led total sanitation in three pilot villages, which replaced a …
Project, 16 February 2018
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Multiple Pathways: case studies of sustainable agriculture in China
… pathways towards sustainable agriculture. From uncertified small community-led farmers’ associations and remote sheep-rearing societies which … Natural resource management …
Publication, 01 December 2015
More than 100 representatives of indigenous mountain communities met in Peru's Potato Park in April 2017 to share their expertise and build their international network (Photo: Lucia Flórez Zelaya)
Mountain indigenous peoples call for support for biocultural landscapes to achieve the SDGs
News, 28 June 2017