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Aerial view of Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands
Demanding urgent responses to the loss and damage caused by climate change
Article, 01 March 2021
Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Development project updates
Mainstreaming biodiversity and development project updates
… (2015-17) was held in Ghana, with participants from the eight countries in the project. The workshop summary report and the Accra … within Malawi’s Growth and Development Strategy.  Lilongwe City is developing a new project with ICLEI to promote biodiversity … lessons which will inform the revision of the NBSAP: The need for greater realism about what is achievable in the time period …
Article, 21 March 2014
Group of people posing for a picture in front on a building
Helping poorest nations engage in climate diplomacy
Project, 26 November 2014
A woman sells cardboard on the streets of Karachi, Pakistan.
Rethinking finance for development in city ‘slums’
… and the goods and services from informal enterprises – yet city governments often ignore them or see them only as a problem. In the … has supported the setting up of 107 City Development Funds across the countries where ACCA works and has also financed 100 larger … This encourages organized networks of the urban poor to plan and act collectively and, as noted above, to bring this planning to the city …
Insight, 12 October 2012
Aerial view of Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands
Demanding attention for the loss and damage from climate change
Article, 01 March 2021
Statements and workshop reports
Mainstreaming biodiversity and development initiative: events
… Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Development project  supported African countries to use their national biodiversity and strategy action plans … and 2017 IIED and partners delivered a series of workshops on how governments could link their NBSAPS with other development planning. … workshop on 'Success in mainstreaming – sharing lessons, co-developing guidance and scaling up', held in Ghana in November 2016. The …
Article, 09 July 2013
Screenshot of a video call with 25 participants.
Local must lead action to tackle world’s multiple interconnected challenges
… At the delayed UN climate change summit (COP26) in Glasgow, countries will be under pressure to increase the ambition of their … this ‘multi-dimensional’ resilience. Local actors including governments, community-based organisations and small and … Development contributors and investors – both public and private – need to provide longer term investment to make this happen. Development …
Insight, 08 October 2020
Women living in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve are trained to sustainably harvest xate palms, providing them with income and preserving the reserve's biodiversity (Photo: Dani Newcomb/USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The role, influence and impact of women in biodiversity conservation
… gender-blind conservation measures.  For example, while women in many countries are increasingly taking on responsibility for managing … sectors – notably agriculture, fisheries, and forestry – in both developing and developed countries. Furthermore, according to the OECD’s … to make gender parity in biodiversity conservation a reality, but governments and international and national partners are increasingly …
Insight, 09 October 2018
An image of an open sewer in the Kibera informal settlement, in Nairobi, Kenya, Refugees in such informal settlements face even more challenges than existing habitatants to access to services, such as language barriers (Photo: Eoghan Rice/Trócaire)
Revealing the hidden refugees in African cities
… attention focused on arrivals in Europe and other well-resourced countries, making it easy to forget the large number of people moving … (IRC) brought together local and international NGOs, UN agencies, and governments from the region to discuss how to collaborate, manage … Tanzania are not officially recognised, the government is currently developing an 'Alternatives to Camps' policy.  The varying unofficial …
Insight, 06 May 2016
Group of people wearing green T-shirts pose for a picture.
Prakriti Resources Centre: climate change policy and action in Nepal
Article, 30 March 2022