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The Mahila Housing SEWA (Self-Employed Women's Association of India) Trust offers savings, loans and micro credit schemes (Photo: Shack/Slum Dwellers International, Creative Commons via Flickr)
People power: the urban poor are now a force to be reckoned with
… land. SEWA is also trying to provide for the women’s ‘life-cycle’ of financial needs. While many other banks only provide credit, the SEWA … to help them gather information about their community, set up financial structures to mobilise capital, and organise and negotiate with local authorities. The …
Insight, 17 October 2011
New paradigm for African agriculture sees sustainable intensification in a new light
… while reducing environmental damage and building resilience, natural capital and the flow of environmental services – has come to take on a … appropriate policies and plans at national and local levels Increased financial support for global and domestic research and innovation to …
News, 18 April 2013
City without limits: keeping pace with the urban poor
… Urban Poor Fund. This self-governed, self-managed, expanding financial facility provides capital to national urban poor funds who are members of SDI. They in turn provide capital to savings federations — communities in informal urban …
Article, 18 November 2008
We must protect the world in which we live (Photo: Steve Guzzardi, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Best of 2017: blogs
Article, 22 December 2017
Divisional Adaptation Planning Committees (DAPCs) act as community focal points (Photo: Sam Greene/IIED)
Local climate finance mechanism helping to fund community-prioritised adaptation
Project, 26 November 2015
Izabella Teixeira, Minister of Environment of Brazil, taken during the World Economic Forum on Latin America in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2011.
Influencing the outcomes at Rio+20
… the 21 st century, as they have too much in-built infrastructure and capital invested in yesterday’s economy. It’s tempting to say we don’t … Ideas conference in th run up to Rio+20 is one such opportunity. The financial crisis in Europe and the financial disarray of the G8 demonstrates only too vividly the very …
Insight, 24 May 2012
Kazakhstan's capital Astana will host the EXPO trade fair in 2017. Credit: Ken & Nyetta/Flicker (Creative Commons)
Kazakhstan: Green economy of the future?
… in the United Arab Emirates in March 2014 In 2017, Kazakhstan's new capital city Astana will host the international trade fair, EXPO . It … and brings benefits across Kazakhstan's population. New international financial and institutional instruments are also needed to support …
Insight, 30 January 2014
Companies such as SteamaCo are making energy easier to access in remote villages in Kenya by using 'microgrids' (Photo: Sam Duby, SteamaCo)
Feeding into energy access: data-driven funding
… access to energy in developing country contexts. Many on-paper financial commitments have been made, yet there seems to be a disconnect … because the funder guarantees funding per payment made. Hence, capital can be more readily accessed by the service providers.   …
Insight, 14 July 2015
COP19 in Warsaw – a private finance climate conference?
… if they were to support it, their support would be in-kind and not financial. And Scottish finance institutions themselves demanded a … and service businesses) need to be mobilised to get sufficient capital flows into climate adaptation. Second, investment in climate …
Insight, 31 October 2013
Study sheds light on how public-private partnerships can bring renewable energy to the poorest
News, 29 July 2011