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Asian Coalition for Community Action
Critical theme: Introducing the Asian Coalition for Community Action
… government and urban poor networks or federations. Previously the director of Community Organizations Development Institute (CODI), an … to challenge thinking on economic issues. Sony Kapoor, the Managing Director of international think tank Re-Define, and Eric Beinhocker, the Executive Director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking's research program,  …
Event, 02 July 2014
For the first time, IIED has produced a bespoke online annual report (Photo: IIED/We are Tangerine)
Annual Report 2013/14: Building bridges for sustainable development
… to achieve a fairer, more sustainable future." – Camilla Toulmin, director of IIED Key content in the 2013-14 annual report The views of director Camilla Toulmin and IIED's incoming and outgoing chairs of the …
Page, 06 November 2014
South Africa: Anna with friends and family in front of her new solar water heating system. It is often more cost-effective to provide energy services to poor communities via off-grid sources (Photo: Abri le Roux, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Public and private sectors: delivering energy access for people living in poverty
… power and water to 10,000 people.  Klaus Rudischhauser, deputy director general at DG for international cooperation and development : … to install eleven solar stations in Ghana.  Fabby Tumiwa, executive director of Institute for Essential Services Reform : IESR is a think …
News, 04 June 2015
The 9th session of the World Urban Forum, the world's premier conference on urban issues, took place in Malaysia in February. Like many international events, there were questions about how it addressed gender (Photo: National Housing Development Authority, via Google licence)
Moving past the token 'woman' word
… The recent appointment of  Maimunah Mohd Sharif as executive director of UN-Habitat  may be an opportunity for change. …
Insight, 07 March 2018
New LDC Group chair Gebru Jember Endalew, of Ethiopia (Image: LDC Group)
Gebru Jember Endalew appointed new chair of the LDC Group
… of a new chair for the Least Developed Countries Group, Clare Shakya, director of IIED's Climate Change research group said: "Today's …
News, 15 November 2016
Radical new way to protect nature’s diversity provides incentives and helps tackle poverty
… and local people have an incentive to safeguard biodiversity. IIED director Andrew Norton said: “Too many plans for saving the rich variety …
News, 03 March 2020
Two women carrying farming tools
IIED's best of 2019: videos
… the conference having overrun by two days and many, including IIED director Andrew Norton, angrily lamenting the “paralysing delays, … and International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) director Saleemul Huq to give his view. For many years Huq, who has … Georgieva, then the CEO of the World Bank and now the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, also sent a recorded …
Insight, 06 January 2020
Communities living in low-lying areas of Bangladesh are currently adapting incrementally to rising sea levels - but transformational adaptation will eventually be necessarily (Photo: Aurélien Paulus, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Author Q&A: Resilience – the science of adaptation to climate change
Article, 28 March 2019
The COP23 venue in Bonn nears completion (Photo: Achala Abeysinghe/IIED)
IIED and partner events at COP23
… Environment, Water and Climate, Zimbabwe (keynote); Charles C. Mutai, director of Climate Change Directorate, Ministry of Environment, Kenya; … Ministry for Foreign Affairs; Ram Prasad Dhital, executive director, Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC), Ministry of … on Integrated Energy Planning and practice; Clare Shakya (moderator), director of Climate Change, IIED Meeting universal energy access (SDG7) …
Event, 06 November 2017
Forty governments and leading institutions commit to support locally led climate adaptation
… Sheela Patel, of Slum Dwellers International, and BRAC executive director Dr Muhammad Musa. The principles are being released as …
News, 25 January 2021