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From decentralised finance to legal tools, this map showing real examples of innovative governance from around the world highlights seven tried-and-tested methods of empowering local institutions (Image: IIED)
Mapping innovative governance for sustainable development
Article, 24 November 2015
For the first time, IIED has produced a bespoke online annual report (Photo: IIED/We are Tangerine)
2014 annual report: online and in print
… half-decade. The online Annual Report includes filmed interviews with staff showing how the work of IIED and its partners is helping to ensure … wa Wanavijiji , Kenya Ghana Homeless People Federation , Ghana Kenya Forestry Research Institute , Kenya RuralNet Associates, Zambia … Policy (CCAP) , China Lok Chetna Manch , India Chinese Academy of Forestry and the Global Environmental Institute , China Bangladesh …
News, 11 November 2014
Cover for G01672.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 3 Process documentation research
… research (PDR) is a tool experiences. Without employing extra staff, to help development organisations learn from the systematic … consuming for field process that explores the interface between an staff. organisation and the people it works with. PDR takes a dynamic … implementation of a social enabled, as well as constrained, project forestry project by a leading NGO, the Aga implementation and assess …
Publication, 01 January 1997
Modern technology means data privacy policies must be stronger than ever. But IIED is treating GDPR as an opportunity rather than a threat (Image: IIED)
Sending out the right messages
… six months updating our processes and policies, and working with IIED staff and partners to build their understanding around implementing the …
Insight, 28 February 2018
Market Analysis and Development training course participants (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Bolivia's indigenous peoples drive forest farm innovation to benefit Mother Earth
… into business growth and development – or by changes in management staff without adequate preparation of replacement staff. Too often, political powers at community level were allowed to … the FFF to capture in a compendium examples of locally controlled forestry business models that can be used to inform national programmes …
Insight, 25 November 2014
Maria Lourdes Alvarez is a warden monitoring fishing activity at Decalve Marine Sanctuary, a Marine Protected Area in the Calamianes Islands in the Philippines (Photo: Asuncion Sia/USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Gender and biodiversity conservation – progress and future directions
… Equality Champions  has been leading our gender ambition, helping staff to think about how we can become gender transformative in our … North Conservancy in Kenya and the three generations of Community Forestry in Nepal. For each case study, he reflected on the extent to …
Insight, 29 November 2018
Cover for G01333.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 3 Participatory RRA in Gujarat
… (India). I joined Are not all RRAs participatory? Well, they are staff from AKRSP(I) and together we to the extent that it is the local … teams which conducted each week- long RRA was made up of AKRSP(I) staff and The principal objective of the RRA exercise myself, and … in agriculture, was to develop a framework for participatory forestry, watershed management, monitoring and community and cooperation …
Publication, 01 January 1988
Sign on community property near Kampala, Uganda (Photo: Rachael Knight/Namati)
Using the law for resource justice
… specialist, authorities on relevant Kenyan law, and ISLP staff. The team is working closely with the organisation to identify … programme that helps communities address the impacts of mining, forestry, and agribusiness. SDI asked ISLP for guidance and legal … resource project; and that the organisation has at least one staff person able to liaise with Namati and ISLP in order to coordinate …
Insight, 28 April 2015
Photo: Farah Sevilla, Alyansa Tigil Mina
How extractive industries can address conflict and build trust with communities
… gaps left by weak legal systems. "Leading oil and gas, mining and forestry companies are starting to establish their own formal mechanisms … resolve grievances in a systematic way and that they have local staff on the ground who can engage appropriately and sensitively with …
News, 25 April 2013
Cover for G01503.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 20 Applying PRA methods to participatory monitoring and evaluation: report on a course held in El Obeid, Sudan
… various PRA tools to PM&E. Monitoring and Evaluation (PM&E) with staff The course took place over two weeks in in various forest … which were course could be an opportunity to explore involved in forestry activities. some of the issues around PM&E ... …
Publication, 01 January 1994