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CANARI’s Radar tool helps small and micro enterprises assess their impacts. Here Kemba Jaramogi from Fondes Amandes Community Reforestation Project in Trinidad and Tobago presents their Radar. (Photo: CANARI)
Time to turn the PAGE?
… inclusive transitions. Kumi Naidoo, Amnesty International’s secretary general, emphasised the growing potential of biomass for energy – well, …
Insight, 17 January 2019
Cover for G00425.pdf
The MDGs and Local Development Processes: Hitting the Targets or Missing the Point?
… Canada's High Commissioner to the UK Address: Masood Ahmed, Director-General, Policy and International Division, DFID, UK Introduction to the … direct budgetary support, PRSPs, programming, reviewing, staffing, partnerships, etc? · Multilateral perspective ­ Terence Jones, Group …
Publication, 01 November 2003
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PLA Notes 42: Children’s Participation - Evaluating Effectiveness
… and participatory techniques. This edition also includes two general articles: A paper detailing a workshop on agroforestry education …
Publication, 01 October 2001
Prakash Mathema speaking at the opening ceremony of the 8th annual conference on community-based adaptation to climate change (CBA8) held in Kathmandu, Nepal in April 2014 (Photo: IIED)
Q&A: Helping the poorest nations with development goals
Article, 19 September 2014
Alternatives to large land acquisitions in developing nations
News, 18 June 2010
Bornean orangutan. Photo: Terry Sunderland
Great apes: Their fate is ours
… reminded us. We tend to use a language that is inaccessible to the general public. We need communicators, like filmmakers, to tell our … more of the many things identified by speaker after speaker: more partnerships, especially with multinationals and other commercial …
Insight, 24 October 2013
The Tanah Abang district of the Indonesian capital Jakarta has chronic traffic problems. Attempts to clear informal settlements and street vendors are frequently met with protests (Photo: Ikhlasul Amal, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Ten urban planning principles every humanitarian should know
… community needs to be better prepared. This means " investing in partnerships with a wide range of actors, including urban planners, … are helps inform us of their challenges, opportunities, needs, and general quality of life. The International Rescue Committee's (IRC) … influence can achieve more than in a rural setting. Humanitarian partnerships with appropriate civil actors may be just as important as …
Insight, 10 November 2015
Our successful animation was devised to popularise the Sustainable Development Goals. But that doesn't mean we didn't make mistakes (Image: IIED/Hands Up)
Global goals, global audience – how well did we score?
… that the 17 SDGs were too long and complex to be communicated to a general audience, we wanted to address this challenge head on. We wanted … the issues of sustainable consumption and production, and global partnerships. She ended up as a vegetable buyer for a UK supermarket, … to do voiceovers in other languages ahead of the United Nations General Assembly in late September, including from the UN Association of …
Insight, 18 September 2015
A traditional farmer in the Eastern Himalaya where indigenous communities use seed networks to protect their knowledge. Research should not publish details of traditional knowledge that could be used commercially without equitable benefit-sharing (Photo: Ruchi Pant/Ecoserve)
Striving for the highest standards in research ethics
… into practice, and to share them with our partners, donors and the general public. Setting ourselves a high bar Formally defining our … property rights and contribute to positive, reciprocal and beneficial partnerships." The formal structures of a research ethics form, to be …
Insight, 14 June 2017
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 11 Making sense of community wellbeing: processes of analysis in participatory wellbeing assessments in South London
… that would build longer- Putting locally perceived needs on the term partnerships for action. agenda I played more of an active role in this …
Publication, 01 January 1999