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Low-cost solar lanterns enable a boy to study at home in the small village of Shidhulai in the Natore District of northwestern Bangladesh (Photo: G.M.B. Akash/PANOS)
Universal energy access: combining public and private sector efforts
… capacity building for energy enterprises, shifting to low-interest capital and risk guarantees as they mature. Customers may be able to use … finance energy access? For example, can remittances become investment capital? Alternative public sector options for reaching the poorest: We …
Insight, 30 September 2014
Delegates at CBA12 in Malawi gather around a table and write on a document
CBA13: galvanising locally-based adaptation in a crunch year for climate action
… host the 13th community-based adaptation (CBA) event  in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. There has arguably never been a more important … when resources are stretched, capacity is low, and there is little financial flexibility for developing innovative ideas. We discussed …
Insight, 22 January 2019
Three-wheeler vehicles known as Quinqis are a popular and cheap method of transport in Karachi, but they cause considerable congestion (Photo: Carol Mitchell, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Karachi's transport challenge
… In transport planning, important issues related to long-term financial and technical sustainability are often missed, due to a … the reality. This has certainly been the situation in Karachi, the capital of Pakistan, where the rapidly growing urban population has left …
Insight, 13 August 2015
Sapphire pits to be rehabilitated in Anikilabo, shown during the site visit of the major of a local mining community, Ampasy Nahampoana (Photo: Andry Rabemanantsoa/GIZ PAGE Madagascar)
Dialogue and action in equal measure
… of dialogue in gold and gemstone mining areas, as well as in the capital Antananarivo.  The results from these dialogues are now feeding … in the Atsimo-Andrefana region in south-western Madagascar. With financial support from the  Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade …
Insight, 13 March 2017
A man stands behind a desk raising an object in the air as he makes a demonstration to people seated in a semi-circle around him.
Which green energy technologies will boost jobs and income? Farmers in Kitui, Kenya decide
… the most popular during the workshops. Discussions explored how seed capital could support cooperatives to buy produce from farmers. Farmers … gender norms across Kenya, women farmers do not have access to capital, nor collateral to secure loans for investments to grow their … values of the cooperative. It also supports robust record keeping and financial management, and other systems that enable cooperatives to run …
Insight, 06 April 2022
Green Economy Coalition gives Rio 2012 text a Grade B
… which the  Coalition has been promoting. It calls for International Financial Institutions to ‘review their programmatic strategies to … that investment in public works for the restoration of national capital, sustainable land and water production systems, sustainable … sustainable way of life. Camilla Toulmin, IIED 4. Restoring natural capital: Grade B- We see a resolve to value the wealth that natural …
Insight, 13 January 2012
The cover of Vision 2030 Jamaica
One people, one vision
… While for Jamaica most of the value in the SDGs relates to political capital, there is at least one way in which the structure of the goal …
Insight, 22 December 2016
Do prizes work?
… received the World Food prize in the grand setting of Iowa’s state capital Des Moines. The citations lauded the role each had played as … in particularly short supply. Too many governments seem cowed by the financial crisis underway in Europe, and unable to budge given the …
Insight, 13 October 2011
International experts on gender and employment participating in an IIED gender workshop in 2014 (Photo: Lucille Robinson/IIED)
Gender in the workplace: do families always have to lose out?
… about their rights, their livelihoods, their access to resources (financial, technologies and human capital). We seek to understand how they can transform and improve their …
Insight, 15 May 2015
The Sumatran rhinoceros
World Conservation Congress: key themes and a new leader to watch
… Development make a strong commitment to putting natural and social capital into the accounting rules for business at the World Leaders’ … Heidi Hautala , said her top priority would be to tax global financial transactions, investing the revenues into more sustainable and …
Insight, 17 September 2012