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A church under construction sits on a verdant green field with dark grey storm clouds behind.
Rio+20: Key recommendations from IIED conference
… not only a way to go, it is the only way to go. Green economy is not about limiting growth - it is about enabling growth.” Achim Steiner, Executive Director, UN … change then we can’t have sustainable development.” Steve Bass, Group Head, Sustainable Markets Group, IIED: “Markets are a social … Governance …
News, 20 June 2012
A view from distance of dozens of buildings in close proximity on a hill
Karachi, informal settlements and COVID-19
… and influential urban scholars, to write this blog, focusing on his home city, Karachi, one of the world’s largest and most rapidly growing … cities.   Karachi is Pakistan’s largest city, with a population of about 17.5 million, of which 2.5 million are political, economic, or … those living in extreme poverty were given 100%. No one complained about these transactions since the office bearers of the community and …
Insight, 06 May 2020
Two women sitting in a field
No room for manoeuvre: debt prevents investing in the future
… average 1 to 1.5 acres per household. The main crops are maize (for home consumption), and groundnuts, soy beans, pigeon peas and tobacco for sale. The region is semi-arid, receiving about 1,000mm of rain per year, with most falling between November and … household members. We wanted to understand how they make choices about farming practices. We focused on differences in decision making …
Article, 26 April 2020
Water with open sewage is stagnant in a built up area
Planning for reality in one of Nairobi’s largest ‘slums’
… to develop co-produced slum upgrading solutions. We were a mixed group, including some older researchers and municipal government … who earlier had suggested Mukuru would have to be razed – how he felt about the settlement’s future. He acknowledged that this incremental … Mukuru’s pathbreaking experience in other slums in Nairobi. Read more about Mukuru’s SPA . …
Insight, 04 December 2019
People undertaking workshop activities
Twitter, visas and communication strategies
… with my posts, but when there’s something substantive to talk about, I’m there. Time passed and I got an answer to my question.  Every … event. 2 Uganda partners refused: 'no family so assume will not go home & cant see how you wld benefit'. We wld have benefited enormously! … the new IIED strategy in mind and our own associated Communications Group objectives , I realised that I was already getting ideas for how …
Insight, 04 July 2019
Community reblocking to improve settlement design and the quality of the neighbourhood in Namibia (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
Namibia shows how to support low cost housing
… Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia and the Namibian Housing Action Group were working with the city of Windhoek to improve options for … "We experienced so much resistance from other planning professionals about our ideas to set development levels that matched affordability. I … housing units are needed by households with monthly incomes equalling about US$150 and a further 30,000 by those earning US$150-460. The plan …
Insight, 13 June 2014
New Community Forest Instructions give communities rights to commercially sell timber and non-timber forest products, such as such as rattan and honey (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Forest rights create new livelihoods in Myanmar
… It is impossible to talk about Myanmar without acknowledging the persecution of the Rohingya by … In 2015, MONREC established a Community Forestry National Working Group and a Community Forest Unit, tasked with transferring 918,000 … a more enabling policy environment for community forest businesses at home, by pointing to progress elsewhere.  A vision for the way forward …
Insight, 05 December 2017
Surveying residents in low-income housing in Vijinapura, India. Receiving accurate data about slums can help local authorities plan solutions (Photo: cstepin, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Co-producing urban innovation from the bottom up
News, 24 October 2016
A group of people working at a table
Learning together boosts confidence and better communications
… to London for a four-day joint workshop with IIED’s Communications Group . We start with how to put a communications strategy together, move on to thinking about audiences in great depth, and then look at a variety of social … plans and policies, investments and regulations, so really, it’s all about communications.” He realised he enjoys communications activities, …
Insight, 22 November 2019
We must protect the world in which we live (Photo: Steve Guzzardi, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Best of 2017: blogs
… listing 'vulnerable groups' – start taking action April: In his blog about risks in urban areas, David Satterthwaite noted that now it seems … Norton and Clare Shakya, who heads IIED's Climate Change research group, delivered a strong call for more action on climate change. To … are monitoring forests - do they get it right? January: Africa is home to 25 per cent of the world's remaining rainforests, but the …
Article, 22 December 2017