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Meeting of the Ogiek community of Sasimwani to review their draft by-laws (Photo: Namati/Jaron Vogelsang)
Using community by-laws to secure customary land rights in Kenya
… where he also attended post-graduate courses in M&E and statistical data management. In addition, he has received formal training in …
Event, 16 November 2018
This barrio in Guatemala has no running water or sewers. The country receives abundant rainfall, but lacks infrastructure to deliver water to households (Photo: David Amsler, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Can natural capital accounting increase water access?
… provide economic performance indicators like GDP. This means that the data – both quantitative (e.g. cubic metres) and monetary (e.g. dollars) … partnership . Simply bringing all these people together to gather the data, and input on how it will be used, is a major breakthrough compared … especially affecting households during dry seasons. Yet the data shows that rainfall is extremely abundant. The problem is that …
Insight, 05 April 2016
An interactive data visual that illustrates the scale and speed of urban transformation that research by IIED has sought to document and describe
IIED's best of 2014: multimedia
… of the most viewed pages on our website in 2014 was this interactive data visual  that illustrates the scale and speed of urban … Initially covering all cities with 750,000 inhabitants, drawing on data from the United Nations Population Division  and updated to include … from 1980-2010, or highlight individual countries and see how their statistics changed.  McGranahan also wrote a complementary blog  that …
Insight, 12 January 2015
Hundreds of homes are crammed together up the side of a hill
Q&A: Achieving housing rights for all: issues and recommendations
… during the lockdown increased by 20-30% when compared to the data from the previous year. This shows that housing policies should … pandemic? While during early stages of the pandemic, infection statistics led some people to demonise urban density, a more nuanced …
Article, 22 October 2020
The UK flag and the logo for the Sustainable Development Goals
Sustainable development in the UK – an issue for party manifestos?
… regularly on progress.   Weak investment in generation of credible data and analysis to enable tracking of progress against key targets. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) could be given the mandate and funding to generate comprehensive and independent data on SDG implementation. However, the resources requested by ONS to …
Insight, 03 May 2017
Our new interactive visualisation plots countries’ incomes per capita against their levels of urbanisation
Let's see what the BRICS teach us about urbanisation and economic growth
… and which is far harder to convey convincingly in words or even statistics, is that most of the BRICS are following paths whose … out. This visualisation is the second of two recent cities-focused data visuals from IIED's Human Settlements Group . The previous …
Insight, 16 September 2014
The Deccan Development society works with poor women in Andhra Pradesh, India. It facilitates a network of women seedkeepers who conserve and exchange seeds (Photo: Deccan Development Society)
IIED's best of 2016: blogs
Article, 28 December 2016
People installing solar panels in a field
Accelerating energy access with aggregation
… are used. Energy companies can access usage analytics and/or collect data from customers – but there is little incentive to share this … the Grid Fund for Zambia (BGFZ) requires companies to share usage statistics to qualify for funds; it then aggregates and publishes this data. This is an important move towards generating better information …
Article, 13 November 2019
Street scene, Karachi, Pakistan. Photo by Fareena Chanda
Can we change the goals of development without changing the implementers?
… these really were achieved (and measured with accurate and relevant statistics), it would be an amazing endorsement of the SDGs (and of the … too low a line in so many cities and nations .  We know that existing data systems cannot measure who has “safe and affordable drinking water” … adequate sanitation.  However, there is some recognition of the vast data gaps in the goal on Data, Monitoring and Accountability, which …
Insight, 09 July 2014
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 2 Participatory rural appraisal: potential applications in family planning, health and nutrition programmes
Publication, 01 January 1992