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The champions helping communities make better food choices
… The Asia-Pacific region is home to more than half of the world’s undernourished children. It also … developing a whole-family approach to providing healthy foods at home, and supporting healthy cooking using the wealth of diversity in …
Insight, 08 January 2020
A demonstration of solar PV products by the Energy and Environment Partnership in Tanzania's southern Iringa Region gathers an audience of all ages (Photo: EEP Southern and Eastern Africa, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Bringing solar out of the shadows
… shift to decentralised supply through such technology as solar home systems or clean cook stoves. Getting energy to remote areas using … getting everyone to 'tier 2' – basic power supply for lighting the home and charging mobile phones – would cost $425 million each year. … Furthermore, the poorest people are missing out on good quality solar home systems as they are not affordable. People in Kigoma and Geita …
Insight, 20 February 2017
People gesture and point at a man with a microphone.
G8 summit: A revolutionary agenda
… deals on land access. Holding companies to account in their home countries needs a parallel process in the places where they … has made big contributions to policy debates about transparency and governance in land acquisitions and extractive industries. “G8 leaders … Governance …
Insight, 14 June 2013
People sitting in front of a table with bags on it
How India’s civil society rose up in the face of COVID-19
Insight, 11 July 2021
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Community Savings: a basic building block in the work of urban poor federations
Publication, 01 July 2014
Comoros, the home of LDC negotiator Fatima Athoumani, has the Indian Ocean as a close neighbour (Photo: David Stanley, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
The sharp learning curve of an LDC negotiator
Insight, 12 December 2018
Women using hoes in a crop field in Kilosa, Tanzania.
Blog series probes principles: what works for women’s land rights?
… six years, IIED has been working to promote gender equitable land governance in sub-Saharan Africa. Together with our local partners, we … to strengthen women’s voices and participation in local land governance processes. In Tanzania, our partner the  Tanzania Women … later examine how village by-laws in Tanzania can help ‘bring the law home’ and legally empower women. Stay tuned! …
Insight, 15 October 2020
A group of people pointing to a bucket
Emerging lessons from community-led COVID-19 responses in urban areas
… Informal labourers increasingly stitch facemasks ; in Uruguay , home-based workers were widely lauded for producing thousands of masks …
Article, 25 June 2020
Construction of new homes designed with community inputs in Gorakhpur, India (Photo: Nivedita Mani and team)
Urban communities are devising their own solutions to build resilience
Insight, 24 February 2015
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Renovation, Not Relocation: The work of the Paguyuban Warga Strenkali (PWS) in Indonesia
Publication, 01 August 2009