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Women crush and separate rocks containing gold ore for extraction at Nsangano Gold Mine, Mawemeru village, Geita, Tanzania (Photo: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)
Picturing the ASM space
… ministries, and they shared their frustrations at a lack of human and financial capacity to harness the potential of ASM. Large-scale mining … how they are trying to minimise the huge political, operational and financial risks posed by ASM and to reduce the increasing number of … at finding themselves in a 'Catch-22' scenario with limited capital and support, high expectations and an unproven resource. And …
Insight, 05 June 2015
Moving beyond the preamble to creating a new story at Rio+20
… the term increasingly used to refer to measuring and valuing natural capital and general wellbeing, in addition to Gross Domestic Product, the established financial indicator of the state of a nation’s economy; Increasing the … who both advocated that the UK should stop blocking a European financial transaction tax, which British Prime Minister David Cameron …
Insight, 24 May 2012
A community planning workshop in Cambodia (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
Improving housing in Asia – and turning traditional top-down funding on its head
… of city development funds, which are now operating as new joint financial mechanisms in 136 cities with funds of $21.65 million. These … these funds, demonstrating their willingness to invest in innovative financial mechanisms to address the needs of some of the most vulnerable low-income citizens. But the biggest source of capital for the city development funds has been community savings as …
Insight, 11 March 2015
Members of Indian women's savings groups
More patience, less protest: the new politics of the urban poor
News, 19 August 2013
A woman sells palm oil in a market in west Africa.
Four actions to reduce the ‘forest footprint’ of commodities
… to obtain finance through preferential terms attached to loans and capital or to receive fiscal incentives (such as tax concessions and … traceability within their supply chains if they can see long-term financial gains for their hard work. From a grower perspective, this may … demand for sustainable products and begin to see the trickle down financial benefits from price premiums.   Companies further down supply …
Insight, 18 March 2013
Guns handed in at the start of a disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration programme run by the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (Photo: Sophia Paris/UN Photo, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: How to negotiate safe access to gang-ruled neighbourhoods in areas of urban crises
Article, 15 November 2017
The entrance to Le Bourget, the venue for the UN climate talks (COP21) (Photo: Takver, Creative Commons via Flickr)
INDCs in Least Developed Countries are estimated to cost US$93.7 billion per year
… each year from wealthier 'donor' countries via public and private financial flows. The most high profile of which being the Green Climate … both technology and capacity support. And they will need investment capital, particularly for high start-up costs. Much of the finance …
News, 30 November 2015
A community-based green energy project: Sinteyo and the women's group with solar panels at the greenhouse in Isiolo, Kenya (Photo: Annie Bungeroth/CAFOD)
Sharing the load: who pays for energy access?
… million euro facility, using aid budgets to provide early-stage risk capital for off-grid electrification. So finance will be a hot topic. … capacity, trying different delivery models, or expanding access to capital. There is no one size fits all – it needs to work for different …
Insight, 29 May 2015
Green economy – learning from the Caribbean
… Since the recent global financial crises, the phrase ‘green economy’ has appeared liberally in … clean, high-tech systems. Green economy is seen as an answer to financial problems – G20 stimulus packages included ‘green’ components, … e.g. a Caribbean single market enabling free movement of labour and capital, and trade agreements built on environmental and labour …
Insight, 04 March 2011
A family at the border crossing between Serbia and Croatia. Some 650,000 migrants and refugees travelled through Croatia between September 2015 and January 2016 (Photo: Meabh Smith/Trócaire, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Responding to transit refugees in Croatia
… central government ensured migrants and refugees bypassed Zagreb, the capital of Croatia and the country's economic hub, reducing potential … and towns in Croatia will require structured thinking about the financial resources to support integration. Cities that share a …
Insight, 19 August 2016