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Garment workers in Bangladesh - increasing automation threatens low-cost manufacturing jobs in developing countries (Photo: NYU Stern BHR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Automation, the changing world of work, and sustainable development
… opportunities for women in developing countries, so the impact on gender equality could turn sharply negative.   And for Africa, with a burgeoning cohort of young people entering the workforce, …
Insight, 17 August 2017
Woman walking through a vegetable garden. A pond behind her.
D&C Days 2021: five pathways for adaptation, resilience and action
Article, 12 November 2021
A farmer’s market, Fort Portal, Uganda
Announcing our new strategy: Make Change Happen
… healthy and sustainable towns and cities in the countries of Africa and Asia where the bulk of the urban growth of the next decade … nature of Sustainable Development Goal 5, we’ll work to integrate gender equality and women’s empowerment throughout our research, using …
Insight, 08 April 2019
Two women carrying farming tools
IIED's best of 2019: videos
… to the national level, and ensuring climate solutions are centred on gender and social justice. We designed the film with a series of … initiatives to improve the sustainability of Chinese investments in Africa , ‘China’s Investment, Africa’s Forest’ proved to be our most viewed video of the year, so …
Insight, 06 January 2020
Screenshots from four of IIED's best videos
IIED's best of 2021: videos
… climate-vulnerable countries and how to make a digital world more gender inclusive . In late November hundreds of people joined the event … subjects that might surprise, such as why water development in East Africa is about power and governance as much as infrastructure and … of the six dialogues that were held across the Asia-Pacific, Africa, and the Caribbean and Latin America regions in September and …
Insight, 28 December 2021
David Arach presented Namati's approach to community land protection, focusing on the key stage of community by-laws drafting, in the IIED webinar (Image: David Arach)
Using community by‑laws to protect indigenous and rural land rights
… working with local partners in a number of countries across Asia and Africa. It has developed an integrated approach to protect community … is pushing for women's involvement in by-laws to support a more gender-balanced regulatory framework. The community land protection … and IED Afrique (2010), London/Dakar (French language) Mainstreaming gender in Tanzania's local land governance , Nasieku Kisambu (2016) IIED …
Insight, 01 December 2016
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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 and … to uphold their rights of access, use and control of community forests. How an evaluation of a drought-rehabilitation project in Niger … Tom Rowley Prejudice and participation: claiming rights to community forests in Nepa l Govinda Prasad Acharya, Pramod Jaiswal Increasing …
Article, 31 August 2013
In 2010 a catastrophic earthquake hit Haiti. Six years later, there has been progress in rebuilding, but much remains to be done (Photo: iolanda, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: LDC Independent Expert Group chair on the SDGs and tackling inequality
… 20 per cent of government positions, showing some progress in gender equality. Some 19,000 hectares of forest have also been planted … Haitian peasantry, and people with low incomes. But when it comes to gender there is a double inequality, in terms of women's rights and … The Least Developed Countries don't know each other well. Most are in Africa and Asia; we are on our own in America. This was part of the idea …
Article, 08 June 2016
Press photographers recording the opening plenary (Photo: UNclimatechange, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP19)
Event, 01 January 2015
Care workers in Guinea put on protective clothing (Photo: EC/ECHO)
Ebola – what must we learn?
… the true battleground has been since Ebola tightened its grip on West Africa. For the first time in 50 years, the DEC is launching an appeal … actors. Mobility has always been key to livelihoods throughout West Africa. Economic survival demands that people move, from village to … Gender …
Insight, 30 October 2014