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Annual report 2008/09
… Fifty-three countries becoming a region  by Hadeel Ibrahim, Executive Director, Mo Ibrahim Foundation UK Cities: Bottom-up imperatives in an urbanising world  by Sheela Patel, Founder/Director, Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centers (SPARC), …
Page, 04 November 2009
People sat around a table looking at a poster.
Q&A: Communities combating illegal wildlife trade in East Africa
… anti-poaching initiatives. They are: George Owoyesigire (GO), deputy director community conservation, Uganda Wildlife Authority, Jean … warden, Rwanda Development Board, and Mary Kirabui (MK), assistant director, Conservation Education and Extension, Kenya Wildlife Service. …
Article, 17 December 2020
This bridge crossing the Yorkin river in the Sixaola Basin is used daily by local communities, including children on their way to school in the early morning. (Photo: Paul Aragón,©IUCN)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Costa Rica
Project, 13 December 2018
Fish Night 4 will hear from a record-breaking ocean skipper on her ocean experiences (Image: Nick Turner/IIED)
Fish Night 4: Governing our high seas. Why now?
… was followed by question-and-answer session moderated by IIED director Andrew Norton. Previous events IIED's Fish Night events bring …
Event, 01 December 2018
An image of Saleemul Huq at the podium giving a speech. On the final day of the CBA10 conference, he called for federations and communities of the urban poor to be better utilised by urban developers, climate change practitioners and local government to mainstream local adaptation (Photo: ICCCAD, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
International climate adaptation conference calls for governments, NGOs and infrastructure investors to work with urban community federations to mainstream and finance local adaptation
… of climate change in cities." Saleemul Huq, IIED senior fellow and director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development … the conference, on I IED's YouTube channel Dr Atiq Rahman, executive director of the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS) , says: …
News, 28 April 2016
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Conference Agenda The MDGs and Local Development Processes: Hitting the Targets or Missing the Point?
… London ­ 18th November 2003 Chaired by Camilla Toulmin, Acting Director, IIED 8.30 Registration and coffee 9.00 Welcome: Mel Cappe, … 9.10 Trustees The MDGs ­ will they make a difference? : Masood Ahmed, Director-General, Policy and International Division, DFID, UK 9.20 10.00 … ­ Sean Southey, Manager, Equator Initiative, UNDP and John Page, Director, Poverty Reduction, the World Bank Bilateral agency perspective …
Publication, 01 November 2003
The transition to green economies across the world was discussed at a Green Economy Coalition meeting in September (Photo: UNEP/Google licence)
Mainstreaming green economies: pitching to people and power
… Commission  The role of civil society action with Melissa Leach – director, Institute of Development Studies. There were also sessions on …
News, 29 August 2014
Headshots of four people over a sunrise over a lush forest
Getting climate resilience right – the case for backing smallholder organisations: Make Change Happen podcast episode 13
… the FFPOs to do effective climate resilience work. Clare Shakya, director of IIED’s Climate Change research group, joins the discussion …
Article, 13 September 2021
Bangladesh rural families spend US$2 billion on climate change – dwarfing government and international finance
… female-headed households are given the extra support they need. IIED director Andrew Norton said: “This research reveals an alarming …
News, 19 September 2019
Woman filling jerry cans with water
Sleepwalking into COP26 collapse – why the UK must drop its aid cuts
… IIED's Clare Shakya, director of the Climate Change research group, was among those who …
Insight, 04 May 2021