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Woman cultivating a garden with plants and palm trees.
Locally led adaption to climate change: the start of a 10-year learning journey
Insight, 12 January 2021
A Raika man leading his sheep and goats to graze in the contested Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary.
How communities are protecting their biocultural resources with community protocols
… poor and vulnerable. In response, some communities have developed Community Protocols to assert their rights and negotiate with others. … conservation and development initiatives. The participatory resource mapping process enriched the community’s capacity to engage in … Ghana. In other cases, the development of community protocols has led to strong partnerships between communities and others, whether …
Insight, 02 October 2012
Woman waters field with a hose.
The Green Climate Fund: time to shift focus to locally led adaptation
Insight, 17 August 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
… platform for locally-driven initiatives to share lessons and inject community voices into IWT policymaking. It includes: An online … to IWT in Africa have focused on increasingly militarised state-led law enforcement, with serious implications for indigenous peoples … communities developed a statement outlining their role in wildlife management (PDF), including tackling IWT. In November 2019, an Eastern …
Project, 30 October 2018
Community engagement in preventin pangolin poaching in Nepal (Photo: Ambika Prasad Khatiwada)
Wildlife crime and local communities
… Wildlife crime is also of concern outside of the conservation community. Wildlife can be a key asset for rural communities in Africa … are: Building the evidence base for the effectiveness of community-led approaches: we have established an online learning platform  to … James R Allan, Duan Biggs (2016), Conservation Society journal The resource bites back: entry-points for addressing corruption in wildlife …
Article, 03 February 2015
Ten elders sir on benches in a forest.
Achieving 30x30: supporting Indigenous and traditional territories and cultures
… Indigenous Peoples as it is under a protected area , and Indigenous-led conservation areas are expanding fast. Their revival and … governance is urgently needed elsewhere. The Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas (ICCA) Consortium  has been highly influential … characterised by a close relationship with the territory or area, and community-led governance, leading to conservation. …
Insight, 26 July 2023
A group of people stand around a map on a table.
Kota Kita: facilitating citizen-led urban development
… people identify their priorities for action. That intensive, locally-led information gathering remains a cornerstone of Kota Kita's work, but … street furniture that guides students along safe routes; as well as a community-based waste management system. [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpATRwo199Q] …
Article, 22 February 2022
A person walks between two ponds.
Locally-led action key to delivering the new global biodiversity framework
Insight, 06 October 2021
Cover for 12540IIED.pdf
Emerging or illusory? Community wildlife management in Tanzania
… In East Africa, community wildlife management (CWM) has become a highly contested … both physically and conceptually. In Tanzania, the linear, centrally-led, devolutionary reform processes that were conceptualized in the … reflect broader internal political struggles over land rights, resource governance, and participation in policy formulation, as well as …
Publication, 01 July 2007
Woman waters seedlings
Delivering high-quality, predictable and accessible climate finance for least developed countries
… is also captured in the widely endorsed principles for locally-led adaptation . Predictable:  climate programmes supporting LDCs … of climate finance (PDF)  due in large part to the cumbersome and resource draining processing for accessing climate finance. Climate … finance goal is high on the COP26 agenda. Now, the international community must reflect on how to make this finance high-quality, …
Insight, 03 November 2021