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A crowd of women and men hold banners and shout in protest
Confronting structural inequalities in South-North research collaborations
… example, prevailing funding models mean Northern institutions often act as donor intermediaries, fronting project proposals and channelling … research co-design and co-production . More fundamentally, there is a need to systemically rethink funding models. Some of the more authentic … (CCSI) involves collaborating with organisations in the relevant countries. While questions are often framed narrowly around national …
Insight, 11 May 2022
A group of women writing notes on a poster.
Can promotion groups help strengthen women’s access and control over land?
… As in other sub-Saharan African countries, in Senegal women farmers still struggle to secure land rights … work can increase the plot sizes allocated to GPFs, [but] GPFs need greater technical and financial support from the state and NGOs to … strengthen women’s land rights. Women’s groups need more support from governments and NGOs, so they can become genuine spaces for empowerment. …
Insight, 24 November 2020
An overhead view of people outside
City residents and urban refugees: from shared living to shared futures
… people freedom of movement, and there is growing recognition of the need to support refugees to exercise their rights wherever they live. … at the Global Refugee Forum to help address the evidence gap by developing research to inform innovative solutions on the issue. The … displaced people in camps and cities in four refugee and IDP hosting countries: Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Jordan and Kenya. Comprising 10 …
Insight, 07 December 2020
A man points his finger at someone in a meeting room at a debate at a meeting on the sustainable development of the Amazon at Rio+20.
Five things we’ve learnt from Rio+20
… will shape those longer-term assessments and frame key issues that need to be followed-up over the news few years: 1. Sustainable … collaboration at the heart of global and national policy. Many governments are still represented by environment or development … was thought to be less at stake. But the growing influence of the G77 countries was a striking feature of the event. The governments of …
Insight, 03 July 2012
Hundreds of densely packed houses climb into the mountains
Dealing with COVID-19 in the towns and cities of the global South
… agencies that – if they work together – can reach the populations in need. High residential densities, with limited services In informal … coal consumption is 30% below its level on 1 January 2020. In many countries in the global South there is no adequate programme to address … Networks like Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI) have been developing partnerships with local authorities to address development …
Insight, 27 March 2020
An Ethiopian farmer demonstrates the the impact of rain shortage on his maize crop (Photo: Dagnachew Belachew via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Connecting the dots: Sharing knowledge to build climate resilient green economies
Insight, 19 February 2014
Man looks at two chimpanzees on a forest path
Q&A: New policy champions communities in the push to conserve Uganda’s wildlife
… The policy also emphasises the need to tackle poaching. Key to developing this part of the policy was understanding the root causes of … – most notably civil society organisations and district local governments. Q: What’s particularly innovative about the new policy? GO: … development. Q: Do you think this policy could inspire other countries in the region, in East Africa, or even internationally? GO: …
Article, 21 July 2020
Prime Minister David Cameron has helped the UK provide global leadership on addressing climate change. But he has decided to resign after the European Union referendum vote, and there are fears that the UK will become more insular (Photo: Russell Watkins/DFID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Ten ways the UK can maintain international leadership on climate change
… the Paris Agreement on climate change is a reminder of how much countries can achieve when standing together . And the UK has been a … carbon market – incentivising Europe's biggest emitting industries to act. Now is not the time to walk away.   Opportunity in adversity? Last … to equity by arguing for direct access to climate finance for developing countries at the Green Climate Fund and by supporting their …
Insight, 01 July 2016
A woman farming in Tanzania. Efforts are being made to ensure women are less negatively affected by decisions on large-scale agricultural investments than men (Photo: Dirk Musschoot/vredeseilanden, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Enhancing women's role in land management decisions
… in land administration and dispute resolution bodies (see the Land Act and Village Land Act of 1999). However, women do not put themselves … conditions made viable for both women and men. Equally important is a need to change the way that women's potential as leaders is considered. … to land use planning and environmental conservation. While other countries all have different legal frameworks, there is clearly value in …
Insight, 24 March 2016
Picture of students and speakers attending Fair Ideas.
Students on Fair Ideas and the future they want
… be taken forward in cooperation with local constituencies, national governments and international decision-makers. While the environment has … civil society, government and the business sector. Besides, we don’t need to be afraid of economics and we know that markets are social … of the western world cannot be applied everywhere. While developed countries are facing a challenge of overcoming the problems caused by …
Insight, 10 July 2012