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Pakistan's Sarhad Rural Support programme deals with constant uncertainty and disruptive events. Here goods are delivered to flood victims in Chitral (Photo: Gul Hamaad Farooqui, Creative Commons via Flickr)
What can Southern NGOs teach us about disruptive change?
… by technological and geopolitical shifts that bring new actors and funding models . These factors are "disruptive changes", upsetting the … to define the shape of development work moving forward. This is why IIED has been looking at how organisations deal with disruptive change. … Southern NGOs. The dynamics look something like the figure below.  IIED's disruptive change initiative continues into 2016 with a focus on …
Insight, 26 January 2016
IIED Insights: Q&A with Hannah Reid on community based adaptation
Article, 10 March 2011
Floating boards on a lake, hiding the fish farming cages underneath
Lessons for building a natural capital legacy
… are declining, aquaculture harvests are increasing…’ – it’s not just about numbers and trends, it’s also about the implications for future … they hit home with civil servants, with decision-makers and with the general public? Do people even know what natural capital accounting … Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), IIED and the  Institute for Development of Environmental-Economic …
Insight, 16 August 2021
Montage of Kristalina Georgieva, Mia Mottley and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
The third woman – getting trade back on track
Insight, 26 April 2023
Aerial view of hundreds of men and women tin mining
New collection of community development laws for the mining sector launched
… En español Researchers, policymakers, civil society and the general public can now access community development laws and agreements … The Community Development in Mining Collection has been developed by IIED, Sustainable Development Strategies Group (SDSG) and the Columbia … on the topic. The partners aim to inform research and debate about policy design and improve local development outcomes in the mining …
News, 10 May 2021
The Nature-based Solutions Policy Platform provides information about climate change adaptation planning around the globe
Nature-based solutions policy platform
… The Nature-based Solutions Policy Platform makes information about climate change adaptation planning across the globe openly … be launched at the Adaptation Futures conference by Nathalie Seddon, IIED Associate and Professor of Biodiversity at Oxford University in a … of climate change. It is the first of a series of animations aimed at general audiences to communicate why protecting nature is very often our …
News, 14 June 2018
Five women look at a tomato plant in a vegtable plot
Empowering women forest and farm producers: learning from the best
… Association (SEWA) headquartered in Ahmedabad, India. As part of IIED’s work with FFF, I travelled to SEWA to learn about their groundbreaking work and to draw together elements that could … skills such as personal development and stress management, as well as general business training (for example management, financial literacy, …
Insight, 27 March 2023
In the foreground, a hotchpotch of buildings close together, towered over by large buildings in the background.
Firm and fair foundations to transform cities, transform lives
… en español A new report, ' Connecting for Common Goals ', marks IIED’s 50th birthday by exploring the organisation’s contribution to ten … international fellow with IIED’s Human Settlements research group , about shared histories, current work and future plans. AW: IIED and … básicos y el cambio climático? En Argentina, y en América Latina en general, seguimos adoptando un enfoque muy fragmentado ante estos retos. …
Article, 14 June 2022
Men and women sitting in chairs.
What happens when the landgrabbers leave? An account from Kilwa, Tanzania
… received considerable press attention, but little has been written about what happened to communities impacted by land-based investments. … the lands from 'Village Land' (land owned by the four villages) to 'General Land' so it could be leased to Bioshape’s successor. In … From 2017-18, the Tanzania Natural Resource Forum (TNRF) and IIED received requests from each of the four communities to help resolve …
Insight, 14 December 2020
Some ecological settings, such as drylands, which are home to a high proportion of the world’s poor, are poorly studied and have become the neglected 'ugly duckling' of biodiversity research (Photo: Marie Monimart)
What we know about how biodiversity and poverty are linked: The good, the bad and the ugly
… Goals. Indeed, a high level meeting at the September 2010 UN General Assembly further stressed the link, claiming: "…preserving … in order to maximise synergies between conservation and development. IIED and the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre recently … just such a study — summarised in this briefing paper — with funding from an ESPA Evidence and Impact Research Grant. Wikipedia …
Insight, 31 March 2014