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A word cloud with words relevant to monitoring, evaluation and learning (Image: IIED)
Monitoring and evaluation, and impact evaluation methods
… set of skills and tools enables us to investigate transformational change in local-to-global systems. We are also considered a hub for … that can be used by countries to evaluate how far, and how well, climate risks are managed at international, national and sub-national … indicators to assess whether development outcomes bring better local climate resilience, and contributes to climate-resilient development …
Article, 01 March 2017
Women from Paraguay's Ita Guasu indigenous community discuss their community development plan. Civil debate and value-based decision making will be key to implementing the SDGs (Photo: USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Positioning the SDGs within the politics of national development
… unprecedented period of environmental, political, social and economic change. Governments are considering what they need to do, individually … an uncertain future.   We are facing major systemic disruptions, from climate change to the 2008 global financial crash, public health … Research Forum and the Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group to share the learning with national stakeholders.  Tighe Geoghegan …
Insight, 12 July 2016
The Forest and Farm Facility Vietnam team displays new forest and farm products and knowledge from work with Forest and Farm Producer Organisation businesses (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Mass mobilisation: boosting businesses and protecting forests
… partnership between FAO, IIED, IUCN and Agricord contributing to the climate-resilient landscapes and improved livelihoods demanded by the … forest and farm business' by facilitating links between 279 group businesses and 80 new financial or business service providers, as … adopted improved practice, design, plans or systems.  This is real change for hundreds of thousands of people: ranges of increased …
Insight, 20 March 2018
IIED director Camilla Toulmin discussed policies that foster equality on a SciDev.Net podcast (Photo: IIED)
IIED director Camilla Toulmin on policies for equality
… groups to the further outskirts of town." Toulmin said policies for climate change and climate regulation are heavily influenced by the agendas of powerful …
Article, 05 September 2014
A collection of IIED's most downloaded publications in 2014 (Image: IIED)
IIED's best of 2014: publications
… oceans' by 2050 and millions of livelihoods lost unless there is a change in current trends. This report sets out a clear and achievable … key positions of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in climate change negotiations Ahead of the UN climate summit in New York … set out three of the key positions for the Least Developed Countries group: on a 1.5 degree pathway, on a binding regime and on achieving a …
Article, 29 December 2014
Our annual report highlights pathways to change (Photo: Olivier Girard/CIFOR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED Annual Report 2017/18
… pathways' – unique ways of working that help IIED to deliver lasting change. Our  annual report for 2017/18  looks at how IIED uses these … Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in international negotiations on climate change . LDCs have most at stake, but are least able to cope … right time With audiences around the globe,  IIED’s Communications Group  emphasises accessibility, knowledge sharing, and innovative ways …
Page, 24 October 2018
A beautiful coastline but, in the foreground, a woman is sorting a huge pile of plastic bottles
Wanted: corporate global citizens to deliver the SDGs
… the laggards will not help if we want to move quickly. We need rapid change at scale, and we need to give much greater encouragement to … that influence our decisions, and associate with a relatively small group. This supports technological solutions, maybe even drives them. … Norton asks how a progressive sustainability manifesto can omit climate change   If we want to tackle the SDGs we need behaviours to …
Insight, 24 January 2020
Immaculate Yossa is regional advocacy officer for Eastern Africa at Hivos. She discussed key messages from multi-stakeholder action at the Uganda Food Lab (Photo: Food and Agriculture Organisation, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Achieving real transformation in our food system
… we consume. This undermines the ability of agriculture to adapt to climate change. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the agri-food 'value chain' … street food vendors, students, and day labourers. Together, this group supports concrete interventions on the ground and advocates for a …
Insight, 23 October 2018
An African man makes a speech in front of a banner in Chinese
Our previous work on China
… strengthening biocultural systems for food security in the face of climate change in China through research and policy advocacy within China, as … has more project information and publications.   New perspectives on climate-resilient drylands development:   reframing pejorative …
Article, 01 August 2019
Some of the publications produced by IIED during 2015 (Image: IIED)
IIED's best of 2015: publications
… importantly, political will.  Read more: IIED's Human Settlements Group is working with partners around the world to identify the … migration . Our new  Urban Matters blog  focuses on urban poverty, climate change in cities and rural-urban linkages.  Impact of climate change on …
Article, 31 December 2015