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COP20 begins in Lima, where negotiators have gathered to discuss action to tackle global climate change (Photo: Kate Wilson/IIED)
IIED at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP20)
Event, 01 December 2014
Participants at the CGIAR Climate Social Learning evidence gathering workshop, including IIED director of communications Liz Carlile (standing) (Photo: CCAFS)
Which factors are key for successful social learning?
… real world. Among the presentations at the workshop was one by IIED director of communications Liz Carlile that covered the basis of what …
Insight, 14 July 2014
Old Indonesia coins. In Indonesia, like the UK, the income of the poorest 40 per cent has to grow at twice the rate of the national average if the income gap is to stay the same (Photo: Anis Eka, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
How serious are the SDGs about tackling inequality?
… research group ; Andrew Norton ([email protected]) is director of IIED. The data used to conduct this analysis was drawn from …
Insight, 04 October 2016
Men in Cote d'Ivoire listen to a radio.
Three things that stop development organisations being agents of change
… produces Shujaaz a multi-media campaign targeted at Kenyan youth. Its director, Rob Burnett , reminded us he was in the business of making …
Insight, 23 November 2012
Malawi's statistics mask struggle to meet UN goal for water and sanitation in urban areas
… safe water and sanitation. The research was conducted by Mtafu Manda, director of the Alma Consultancy in Lilongwe, Malawi, in nine of the …
News, 13 August 2009
Report urges forestry industry to tackle conflict with local people
… between corporations and communities,” says Marcus Colchester, Director of the Forest Peoples Programme, a human rights group. “As this …
News, 08 July 2009
2015 is a critical year for sustainable development: IIED is tracking the route to Paris and COP21 in December (Image: IIED)
Walking along the road to Paris
Insight, 15 June 2015
An image of the outside of a Malawi bank, showing a ramp installed for wheelchair users. Generally the country is lagging behind in terms of provisions for people with disabilities (Photo: Steve Sharra)
People with disabilities struggle in Malawi's cities
… is how to implement it. Watch an interview with Mosharraf Hossain , director of global policy at ADD International, discussing how the lives …
Insight, 06 June 2016
Aceh, Indonesia, in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the ninth anniversary of which is on Boxing Day. Photo: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia (Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Reading into the future this Christmas
… Now for the Long Term would be time well spent. Camilla Toulmin is director of IIED ( [email protected] ) …
Insight, 23 December 2013
Ongoing monitoring of communal toilets has helped to improve design: here, smaller toilets for children are included in adult toilet blocks. Previously children's facilities were in separate buildings and were frequently left uncleaned (Photo: SPARC)
How India's slum and pavement dwellers made sanitation affordable
… difficult bit. Sheela Patel ( [email protected] ) is founder and director of SPARC, a Mumbai-based NGO that has worked with and supported …
Insight, 05 April 2015