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Four elephants roam the plain on the Maasai Mara, Kenya
Covering elephant tracks: can insurance compensate farmers for wildlife damage?
… Dr Sumith Pilapitiya, former Director General of the Department of Wildlife Conservation, and IIED's chief … community-based solutions, innovative financial design and effective partnerships. Specific lessons learned include: Future insurance schemes …
Insight, 27 March 2019
People stand on a sea-wall with a road and look out at the ocean.
8 points on financing climate change adaptation in urban areas
Insight, 20 June 2013
People looking at a map
Learning from community planning following the Haiti earthquake
… Reports and evaluations  Photographs and communication materials, and General/overview documents. City folder – this folder contains three … and the Middle East. It has also helped to establish  two learning partnerships  for humanitarian and research organisations to develop and …
Project, 09 January 2020
A rally protesting against the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) takes place in Wellington, New Zealand (Photo: Neil Ballantyne, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
The rise of civil society advocacy on investment treaties in Malaysia and the Philippines
Insight, 26 March 2015
IRF partner logos
Independent Research Forum (IRF): supporting change for a sustainable future
… tasked with preparing a proposal on the SDGs for consideration by the General Assembly, as an opportunity to influence the process. … became known as the 2030 Agenda was launched to the world at the UN General Assembly in 2015 – with 17 distinct but inter-connected …
Project, 14 December 2018
Women in Ahmedabad, India, collect rubbish from 6,656 households that make up the slum area of Juna Vadaj, illustrating the energy and innovation that informal economies can bring to the sustainable development agenda (Photo: Pritpal Randhawa for STEPs)
Development frontiers
… don't exist. Governments, companies, investors and the public in general like to talk about a lack of investment, technologies or … This comes through time and time again in IIED's work on dialogues , partnerships and change. He also seemed to be describing large parts of …
Insight, 21 March 2016
COP19: Cities on the agenda at the climate talks
Insight, 22 November 2013
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
… 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
The timber depot of a Chinese-owned timber concession licensed to operate in Nampula, Mozambique. While some replanting takes place, they do not currently replace all they cut. Photo: Mike Goldwater.
China in Africa: New forum seeks sustainable, pro-poor forestry
News, 27 February 2013
Bester Glandson was lent land and taught to grow soy and groundnuts with support from the National Smallholder Farmers' Association of Malawi (NASFAM) (Photo: Olivier Girard/EIF, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Building transparency and trust into smallholder commodity trading and contract farming
Insight, 13 November 2018