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Urban Africa Risk Knowledge (Urban ARK) logo on top of arial photo of Niamey, Niger
Urban ARK work programmes and locations
… explored incremental changes in neighbourhoods and established urban resource hubs. City/country-specific details Urban ARK's work extended … traps The ReMapRisk tool and linked action planning workshops has led to five strategic action projects in Karonga and another in Mzuzu, … loss data and social vulnerability. Karonga, Malawi: applied a community-level vulnerability and capacity assessment method to address …
Article, 26 August 2018
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IIED at London Climate Action Week 2020
… Huq, ICCCAD (chair); Sheela Patel, Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC) India; Martha Chen, Harvard Kennedy School and … after COVID-19  |  Transitioning to a better global ‘new normal’ | Community-led COVID-19 response: the work of the Philippines Homeless People’s …
Event, 01 July 2020
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 10 Communities meet policy-makers through video-supported analysis: rural energy issues in Malawi
… on rural energy themselves directly with policy-makers. and natural resource management by This action-research approach is an example presenting … Their interests Based on a literature review by one of the had led to a narrow research question that authors, we renegotiated the …
Publication, 20 February 1999
CBA13 networking: IIED senior fellow and director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) Saleemul Huq in conversation with Susan Nanduddu, director of the Uganda-based African Centre for Trade and Development
CBA13: event highlights
Article, 04 April 2019
The Nairobi Declaration will be taken to this year's UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP21) by Fatima Mohamed Hussein, on behalf of the Kenyan government, the conference hosts (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Global leaders must not neglect the world's poor and vulnerable
News, 30 April 2015
An image of Mohammad Sayedul Haque, the Bangladesh Minister of Fisheries and Livestock alongside a table around which sit participants from Bangladesh, Myanmar and India as they discuss sustainable hilsa fishery management (Photo: Essam Yassin Mohammed/IIED)
Scientists call for international collaboration to safeguard hilsa fish stocks
… was organised to discuss research into incentive-based fisheries management in Bangladesh, and to explore opportunities for collaboration … . It was funded by the UK's Darwin Initiative . Hilsa fish: a vital resource The Hilsa fish, called 'Ilish' in Bengali, is one of … communities in India and Myanmar. Overfishing and loss of habitat has led to declining stocks: once plentiful and affordable even for the …
News, 06 May 2016
A photo of a woman.
Protecting Indigenous lands: lessons from Chile
… firm, operates three projects within the ancestral lands of one community, the Colla de Pai-Ote.  Between 2007 and 2013,  … emissions made it the second-largest emitter of mercury in Chile. Community members became ill and their animals died from drinking the … tables" - Segundo Araya Bordones A community-instigated and community-led HRIA process, however, ensures that the impacts identified are those …
Article, 17 November 2020
A woman carrying groceries in the village of Bouwéré, Mali. Assessments looked at how women experienced resilience to climate disruption (Photo: P.Casier/CGIAR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Monitoring and evaluation in a local context
… In the BRACED Decentralising Climate Funds project led by the Near East Foundation , we support local governments in Mali … will support a different type of resilience depending on what the community chooses to invest in. A community investing in a water point, … for agricultural, livestock and fishing systems; and natural resource governance. In many cases, households and communities were …
Insight, 18 July 2016
Aurelio Fuastino lives near a primary forest in Mozambique. He sees the forest as an important source of many products including medicinal plants. He and other villages have no control over loggers who have been given licenses in the forest (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)
IIED seminar on locally controlled enterprises for forest peoples
… development, including those based on local land use plans and community resource management. The seminar, part of IIED's Critical Theme series … ideas, highlights research and profiles the work of partners, was led by Joji Carino, the director of the Forest People's Programme (FPP) …
Event, 07 July 2015
The Nairobi Declaration will be taken to this year's UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP21) by Fatima Mohamed Hussein, on behalf of the Kenyan government, the conference hosts (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
International climate adaptation conference says 2015 summits must address the needs of the world's poor
… representatives from governments, civil society, the scientific community, and international and non-governmental organisations. The … and transparent funds for adaptation, with an emphasis on supporting community-level efforts which can be overlooked when funding is managed … their needs in 2015's high-level summits." Huq added: "Participant-led initiatives like CBA9 show the level of initiative that is taking …
News, 29 April 2015