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Bangladesh: schoolchildren attend lessons at a school located on a boat (Photo: G.M.B. Akash/PANOS)
Ten lessons on community-based adaptation
Insight, 16 March 2016
Crowdsourcing evidence – such as from these food vendors in Fort Portal, Uganda – is vital to foster citizens agency. But you must engage and listen (Photo: Sven Torfinn/Panos Pictures)
Encouraging dialogue and dissent
… to deliver change. Liz Carlile ([email protected]) is the director of IIED's Communications Group. …
Insight, 15 March 2016
A small fishing boat off the Albanian coast (Photo: Essam Yassin Mohammed/IIED)
Three things I learnt from a small-scale fisherman in Albania
Insight, 23 January 2018
Peer review of The Netherlands National Strategy for Sustainable Development
… of the French government, Barry Dalal-Clayton, IIED senior fellow and director of the strategic planning and assessment programme, developed …
Project, 01 May 2008
Representatives of Indonesia communities discussed ways to improve urban conditions at the third Urban Social Forum (Photo: Fabrizio Salvatori)
Indonesian civil society discusses its urban future
… city to become a reality. John Taylor ([email protected]) is the director of the Indonesian NGO Yayasan Kota Kita (Our City Foundation). …
Insight, 21 January 2016
Maureen O'Neil and Rebeca Grynspan, the incoming and outgoing chair of IIED's board of trustees, discuss the institute's key challenges and successes over the last six years (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Trustee chairs in conversation: Maureen O'Neil and Rebeca Grynspan
… development in recent years. Grynspan also served as regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the UNDP and added that, …
Article, 11 August 2014
Algeria unveils its renewable energy strategy; Africa has a "huge appetite for renewable sources of energy that will power its industries" (Photo: Magharebia, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
But, what is the Africa position?
Insight, 28 November 2015
A proper technological integration would make feasible the implementation of more micro-grids such as this one, pictured, on Chile's border with Bolivia (Photo: Boris Lopicich)
What will speed up the micro-grid revolution?
… and environment at the National Congress of Chile, and managing director at the NGO Innovation, Development and Equity. …
Insight, 24 November 2015
People use the pavement on Boulevard Richard Lenoir, close to the Bataclan concert venue which was the focus of the Paris attacks on 13 November, 2015, to share messages of support, and hope (Photo: Gael_Lombart, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
French lead drive for global climate agreement
Insight, 17 November 2015
The Food Change Lab engaged a wide group of voices from people in different parts of the food system in the Fort Portal region (Photo: Nimrod Bagonza)
Mixing more voices into food policy
… In a foreword accompanying the People's Summit report, the NPA Director pledged to integrate the food system as a cross cutting issue …
Insight, 10 October 2016