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A living room on the street, in Karachi, Pakistan (Photo: Fareena Chanda)
A picture of urban living
… And they are particularly vulnerable to natural disasters and climate change, both of which can exacerbate the root causes of poverty and … Our experience tells us that these people are not simply victims of change but are often also agents of change, using their ingenuity, …
Insight, 30 October 2015
A man in a face mask talking to a group of people
Facing a COVID-19 future: listening and learning to inform the ‘new normal’
… responses are needed urgently? We’ve seen with our work on getting climate finance to the local level and to the small organisations and … build capability. And as Sheela Patel says , if we want to deliver change, we actually have to make room for risk. This is a difficult conversation, but one that we’d like to have. Climate change is not going away, food security will continue to be a …
Insight, 28 May 2020
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Hilsa’s non-consumptive value in Bangladesh: Estimating the non-consumptive value of the hilsa fishery in Bangladesh using the contingent valuation method
… However, overfishing, habitat destruction, siltation, pollution and climate change have driven catches down, and management policies have not …
Publication, 01 November 2016
Washing in Kolkata. Urban poor groups must engage with city government and utility companies in order to become drivers for change (Photo: Wolfgang Sterneck, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Can global funds be accountable at the local level?
… to come from global funds – for instance those set up to support climate change adaptation and mitigation or to tackle specific diseases such as … the amount of money allocated globally to some focus areas (climate change, sanitation, malaria, child immunisation) seems huge. …
Insight, 09 August 2016
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Reforestation, coffee and carbon in Sierra Piura, Peru: can carbon financing promote sustainable agriculture?
… An ‘upstream–downstream’ approach links two groups of farmers in a climate-change mitigation and adaptation project: poor subsistence armers in the …
Publication, 01 November 2015
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Stakeholder-focused cost-benefit analysis in the water sector: synthesis report
… Accurate cost benefit analysis of climate change adaptation actions is not only critical in designing effective … also for generating information that feeds into national and global climate policy agreements. One of the main challenges of this type of …
Publication, 01 January 2013
The Deccan Development society works with poor women in Andhra Pradesh, India. It facilitates a network of women seedkeepers who conserve and exchange seeds (Photo: Deccan Development Society)
IIED's best of 2016: blogs
… right, but also essential in order to deliver genuinely sustainable change. Hawley's blog reviewed 'Why women will save the planet ', a new … na mwenye mwana" (You have to be part of the dance). The Green Climate Fund: will the vulnerable be overlooked in a rush to spend? … facing Least Developed Countries June: The Least Developed Countries Group was set up in the 1960s to ensure development aid targeted those …
Article, 28 December 2016
Diagram showing change at different scales (Image: Stefano D'Errico/IIED)
Monitoring, evaluation and learning capacity development
… national and local levels, IIED engages a wide variety of 'agents of change' from across different stakeholder groups in different countries. … new thinking and frameworks for assessing policies and practice on climate risk management, climate adaptation, the impact of social protection areas, the …
Project, 01 March 2017
A screengrab from the Mr Forest video. The two films were viewed 360,000 times in China in the first 24 hours after their release (Image: IIED)
Best of 2018: videos
… Chinese.  James Mayers, director of IIED's Natural Resources research group, explained: "We wanted to raise awareness among the Chinese public … IIED Sustainable Diets for All programme . 4 Explaining isn’t nuts Climate finance, the funding to support action on climate change, is growing rapidly – but little of it is reaching locally-led …
Article, 24 February 2019
A CCAFS and CIAT participatory photography project in Chiquimula, Guatemala. A framework on how to monitor and evaluate social learning approaches is now available. (Photo: Gian Betancourt/CIAT, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Paper outlines framework to monitor and evaluate social learning approaches
… the globe came together in London last year for a workshop under the Climate Change and Social Learning Initiative (CCSL). The CCSL initiative is a cross-organisation group with strong ties to Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security …
Insight, 13 February 2015