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Introduction to an inclusive blue economy
Article, 27 November 2019
People from Kandadji village, which is due to be flooded, meet to discuss resettlement plans.
Niger: Tough questions posed by the Kandadji dam development
… downstream ecosystems and guaranteeing drinking water supply to the capital, Niamey. IIED and IUCN have been working with the dam developer … is still a diversity of views. Some feel that the government’s huge financial investment should create constraints for resettled … free to challenge this in court, as was the case mentioned above for financial compensation for housing. Equally unknown is whether the …
Insight, 19 April 2013
Housing in informal settlement.
Getting housing back onto the development agenda in the time of COVID-19
… accessibility and choice. Most measures to do this do not need large capital sums.   City governments support private, cooperative, community … governments.  The Akiba Mashinani Trust (AMT) provides funding and financial services to the Kenyan Homeless People’s Federation (Muungano …
Insight, 02 October 2020
Q: When is a forest not a forest? A: When no-one knows
… concrete capitals where policymakers pour over green-tinged maps and financial spreadsheets that only show some of the costs and benefits of …
Insight, 02 November 2011
Women working together to build a solar lighting circuit board.
How crowdfunding offers the fast route to decentralised energy
… not be able to pay standard tariffs regularly, or who can’t afford capital investment in new equipment. Local initiatives often need very … investors : socially responsible investors who actively seek to place capital in businesses that harness the power of enterprise to do good.  … robust due diligence process is also essential. and it is not just a financial assessment, the personal relationship with the local partner …
Insight, 07 August 2013
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 11 Experimenting to solve water management problems: Lele community in Nepal
… involvement of the community in problem is a one-hour drive from the capital city, identification and analysis, leading to Kathmandu. Since … group management, maintenance, to a better functioning water financial management and proposal system with a regular maintenance …
Publication, 01 January 1999
Smallholder forest-farm in Myanmar
Fairer by Far: Multi-functional mosaics for public goods
… Some publics (notably wealthy urban consumers) have considerably more financial muscle than other publics (notably poor rural producers) — so … public goods from forest landscapes to be unleashing the power of capital through technological and scale efficiencies (big blocks of food …
Insight, 23 August 2013
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Liberalisation, Gender and Livelihoods: The Mozambique Cashew Nut Case
… national processing capacity is low, and the factories face many financial and organisational problems; the former factory workers, and … men dominate the marketing activities that require larger initial capital and bring higher profits; in the south the local and regional …
Publication, 01 May 2004
Rwanda has made significant commitments on restoration. Kigali, surrounded by green hills, was a particularly fitting venue for the African Forest Landscape Investment Forum (Photo: atulinda Images, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Restorative insights at the pool in Kigali
… of nine specialists in 'asset investment' (where investors put in capital to a business in the expectation of a reasonable return), who … 'enabling' investments are needed in market analysis, business and financial literacy training and technical extension before any …
Insight, 08 June 2017
Community-based adaptation in Bangladesh. Photo: G.M.B. Akash/PANOS
Developing nations put climate change adaptation at the centre of planning
News, 25 April 2013