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Taking stock: community responses to COVID-19 in cities
… organisations and the local NGOs who worked with them to write about their COVID-19 experiences.  This is the latest in a  series of blogs and interviews , curated by IIED senior fellow David Satterthwaite, examining different aspects of … such as these are greatly admired, yet attract very little funding. As a result, their reach and effectiveness are being …
Insight, 19 October 2021
Introduction screen from video, showing the LDC 2050 Vision logo
Least Developed Countries launch 2050 Vision for a climate-resilient future
News, 23 September 2019
A herder with his livestock in Isiolo County, Kenya (Photo: Dorine Odongo/ILRI, Creative Commons via Flickr)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Kenya
… change and promote sustainable development. Between 2015 and 2019, IIED, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and … Orindi, National Coordinator of the ADA Consortium explains more about this work in the video below: … a multitude of EbA initiatives. IIED and ADA have been exploring two funding models used here - one nationally managed and one locally …
Project, 14 June 2018
People looking at a map
Learning from community planning following the Haiti earthquake
… archive As a contribution to the DFID-funded Urban Crises programme , IIED supported three researchers with detailed knowledge of … Reports and evaluations  Photographs and communication materials, and General/overview documents. City folder – this folder contains three … resulted in practical improvements to living conditions and brought about far-reaching institutional change in both the status of informal …
Project, 09 January 2020
US President Joe Biden speaking with a microphone
Biden’s climate summit needs to show leadership for the most vulnerable – here’s how
Insight, 20 April 2021
People installing solar panels in a field
Accelerating energy access with aggregation
… US$20 billion per year will be needed to meet the ambition of SDG7. IIED has identified aggregation as a promising way to accelerate access … of being left behind by established approaches. Estimates suggest about half the people gaining electricity access between 2016 and 2030 … of investments for solar home systems; another ten secured 77% of all funding available for mini-grids . We need to establish hundreds more …
Article, 13 November 2019
Ruth Nguli looks at her crop of drought-tolerant beans in Makueni County, Kenya. Developing and sharing climate-smart farming techniques can help communities adapt to climate changes (Photo: Cecilia Schubert/CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)
How do we measure adaptation?
Insight, 11 March 2015
The home page of the AdaptaClima web platform
Sharing knowledge on climate change adaptation in Brazil
Project, 14 May 2018
Donor nations get low scores on climate finance transparency scorecard
News, 16 September 2011
A woman holds up woven baskets
Nominating your outstanding women in development
… The latest in IIED’s biennial Barbara Ward Lecture  was scheduled for June 2020, with … for a project that is funded by DFID through IIED ,” adds Maggie about Mlumbe, who is demonstrating how socio-legal empowerment can … copyright IUCN ) "I first met Bharati in 2015, when she was FECOFUN general secretary and gender focal point, as part of my work with the …
Article, 15 June 2020