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A family in Tarialan, Uvs Province, Mongolia, uses a solar panel to generate power for their ger, a traditional Mongolian tent (Photo: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Why social inclusion matters for green growth
Insight, 11 August 2016
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Community-driven development for water and sanitation in urban areas: its contribution to meeting the Millennium Development Goal targets
Publication, 01 April 2005
Delegates at the 4th Session of the Ministerial Monitoring Committee of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in West Africa (Photo: GWI West Africa)
ECOWAS water ministers agree to build fairer dams
… and complex dam and irrigation projects – West Africa is already home to 150 dams and there are 40 more in planning or construction.  But …
News, 16 December 2015
A local blackout in Dar Es Salaam. Power outages in Tanzania's capital are often caused by old cables and transformers (Photo: jay grandin, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Improving Tanzania’s power quality: can data help?
Insight, 29 June 2018
'Imagine Bwindi', by Ugandan musician Richard Kawesa, is expected to reach thousands of people, from local communities living around Bwindi to policymakers (Photo: PCI Media Impact)
'Imagine Bwindi' music video launched on World Wildlife Day
… media, such as talk shows, music videos, and comic strips. Bwindi is home to an estimated 400 endangered mountain gorillas. Located in the …
News, 03 March 2015
Climate-change media alliance tackles information vacuum in developing nations
News, 21 January 2008
Women opening the fruit of the marula tree to extract the kernel for making marula oil (Photo: CIFOR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Encouraging collaboration: drafting a new law to stop biopiracy in Namibia
… Participants ranging from government institutions to the police and home affairs departments and traditional authorities, were brought …
Article, 21 March 2016
US President Barack Obama during a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 2014. Bilateral meetings are a key part of climate diplomacy (Photo: US Embassy, The Hague, Creative Commmons, via Flickr)
Climate diplomacy: a beginner's guide
… were sent to establish resident missions in states with which their home nations had established diplomatic relations. Today, perhaps the …
Insight, 13 October 2015
The new university in Ségou. Mali's capital city, Bamako, is the nation's political and economic power base – greater decentralisation will bring many benefits (Photo: Camilla Toulmin/IIED)
Four challenges facing Mali amid efforts to rebuild
Insight, 21 June 2016
A family guards their crops from wild animals on the boundary of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Photo: Mariel Harrison)
Conservation works better with social justice
… gorillas, living in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Bwindi is home to around half of the world's population of this critically … what was a revolutionary idea to encompass issues of human rights, governance and power into mainstream political, legal and academia … profiles and motivations of resource users and local perceptions of governance at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda Project partners …
Insight, 20 August 2014