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Crucial conversations: our favourite five
… open minds and ears achieve impact. 1. New blogging platform targets Africa’s youth We sought to hear and promote the powerful ideas coming … Long read makes women’s voices count Listening was fundamental to our gender and land governance work. IIED’s Communications Group guided …  was one of 2019’s highlights. Alongside partner organisations from Africa, Latin America and Asia, we explored opportunities, barriers and …
Insight, 10 March 2020
The Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group (Image: IIED)
Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group
… focuses on education, culture, community development, environment, gender equity and civil society. She directed FOKAL for 13 years before … Policy Centre, and with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. Ms. Denton previously joined the International Development … governance of biodiversity and multi-stakeholder landscapes, model forests, participatory action research and interactive social …
Article, 03 August 2015
COP20 begins in Lima, where negotiators have gathered to discuss action to tackle global climate change (Photo: Kate Wilson/IIED)
IIED at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP20)
… . Representatives working on forestry and climate change in Asia and Africa reflected on experiences strengthening equity in forest … to climate change through adaption to CSA practices and a focus on gender and IPCCA (Indigenous People's Climate change Assessment) Partner … Speakers: Including IIED director Camilla Toulmin Incorporating forests and above all a landscape approach in the Sustainable …
Event, 01 December 2014
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Table of contents: PLA 66 - Tools for supporting sustainable natural resource management and livelihoods
… a livelihoods framework, revealed how famine was averted in Southern Africa.~• How community-led action in India is improving animal health … to uphold their rights of access, use and control of community forests.~• How an evaluation of a drought-rehabilitation project in …
Publication, 01 September 2013
The cracked mud of a dried-up reservoir bed, with a dead river-mussel shell in the foreground and an abandoned boat in the background
Strengthening development in the face of the climate crisis and environmental destruction
… or financing they need. This includes sustainable management of forests, land and water, and environmental health issues such as … the links between drought and conflict in the Middle East and North Africa. And where public-private blended finance is growing as an … integrating multiple cross-cutting issues including human rights and gender, rather than simply a one-way, single-issue campaign, as Sida is …
Insight, 31 October 2019
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PLA66: Tools for supporting sustainable natural resource management and livelihoods
… a livelihoods framework, revealed how famine was averted in Southern Africa. • How community-led action in India is improving animal health … to uphold their rights of access, use and control of community forests. • How an evaluation of a drought-rehabilitation project in …
Publication, 01 September 2013
Haramata Communications Initiative
… 55th, was produced in collaboration with partners in East and West Africa. On this page there are links and information about Haramata's … development; soil carbon sequestration; REDD – protecting climate, forests and livelihoods?; are we overlooking biomass energy? … Fertilisers and the food crisis: debating soil fertility in Africa; gender-based violence among the Afar in Ethiopia. Focus on... biofuels: …
Article, 13 October 2008
More than 250 participants shared their experiences and examples of good practice at CBA12 (Photo: Teresa Corcoran/IIED)
How can insights from CBA12 inform global discussions on the SDGs and resilience?
… action at grassroots and local level across hundreds of locations in Africa and Asia. For the second year, the event was run with the … Women remain disproportionally vulnerable to climate change, but gender responsive approaches cannot just work with women. Engaging men … CBA12 also explored how engaging young people in tackling climate and gender issues offers real potential for fundamental change, as young men …
Insight, 16 July 2018
Top blogs of 2018
Best of 2018: blogs
Article, 27 December 2018
Recovering wildlife populations in Namibia are largely attributed to policies that give local people rights to benefit from wildlife on their land (Photo: Ronald Woan, Creative Commons via Flickr)
There’s justice in the battle for biodiversity 
… Biodiversity is a human issue Moreover, it is a poverty and a gender issue.  Biodiversity loss disproportionately affects the world’s … resources make possible.  One of the largest restoration successes in Africa (PDF)  is the natural regeneration of Niger’s Maradi and Zinder … largely by favourable tenure changes, improvements in the use of forests as collateral for loans, the development of forest insurance, …
Insight, 28 June 2018