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A women's focus group is a key part of a governance assessment at Lake Mburo National Park in Uganda. It's essential that gender equality and equity is addressed in research proposals and activities (Image: IIED)
On a learning curve towards gender mainstreaming
… from a gender and learning adviser, we now have a peer support group with solid gender equality skills, ready to advise other … Williams ([email protected]) is senior coordinator in IIED's Climate Change research group. …
Insight, 25 January 2018
Trees at Oxford Botanical Gardens. The question is not how to engage young people in forestry issues, but how to harness that engagement (Photo: Geraldine Warren/IIED)
Nurturing the next generation of foresters
… offer solutions to some of the biggest threats facing our planet – climate change, food insecurity, economic and social inequality. Forests really … by smartphone In January, during a field trip to a forest growers' group in Phu Thinh Commune, Yen Bai province, Vietnam, I saw first hand …
Insight, 24 August 2015
Seydou Kassojue, 47, has a garden plot where he grows lettuce close to the Sélingué dam in Mali. The Global Water Initiative has been working with smallholders in the area since 2009 to find out how the dam affects the livelihoods of local farmers and what improvements could be made (Photo: Mike Goldwater/GWI)
Can dams work for local communities alongside national good?
… security and energy needs, particularly in the context of increasing climate variability. In West Africa there are 150 existing dams and 40 … in Room FH 201) include: Nouradine Touré, Regional Coordination Group of Users of the Niger Basin (CRUBN) Mahamane Touré, Economic …
News, 18 August 2015
A view of the Houses of Parliament, home of the Environmental Audit Committee which has warned that the government risks undermining new global development goals (Photo: Skeeze, via pixabay)
SDGs 'not just for overseas'
… the current proposals, drawn up by an inter-governmental UN working group, reflect the complexity of this agenda. There is a risk that by … weeks alone, the UK government has pledged £720 million to the Green Climate Fund , while George Osborne announced in his Autumn Statement a … International Development (DFID) , Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs …
News, 15 December 2014
A view of the Houses of Parliament, home of the Environmental Audit Committee which has warned that the government risks undermining new global development goals (Photo: Skeeze, via pixabay)
MPs warn UK government against limiting sustainable development goals
… weeks alone, the UK government has pledged £720 million to the Green Climate Fund , while Chancellor George Osborne announced a series of tax … risk destabilising the agreements put in place by the UN Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals . Read the EAC report . … International Development (DFID) , Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs …
News, 15 December 2014
Ejura Market in Ghana is an important centre for farmers selling their yam crops (Photo: IITA)
Rural urban linkages
… villages in Africa, Asia and Latin America Migration, mobility and climate change This is an area of concern for the policy and research … to make sure that policies are fair and are addressing the impacts of climate change in the most effective ways. This topic is explored in an …
Project, 29 August 2014
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Background note for the High-level Event on Sustainable Energy for LDCs (New York, 23 September 2013)
… to resolving the two major challenges of our time, namely poverty and climate change. Many success-stories and best-practices of how this can be done … countries (LDCs), which constitute the poorest and most vulnerable group of countries in the world. Out of the 1.3 billion people who do …
Publication, 01 September 2013
World Urban Forum 2008
… David Dodman (IIED) contributed to the debate with information about climate change, and climate change mitigation and adaptation measures. IIED … I joined the Federation and learnt to save and loan. The savings group women all know each other. We all help each other in our troubles. …
Event, 30 October 2008
Annual report 2006/07
… 2006/07 Annual Report from IIED's Publications Library In 2007, as climate change rose to the top of every agenda, IIED played a major role in … forum:  in September 2006, IIED’s Poverty and Conservation Learning Group was launched: a major platform for 70 conservation organisations …
Page, 16 April 2008
Waste pickers packing up the recyclable materials, Peru (Photo: Alex Proimos, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Workers in informal economy need say in global environmental agendas
… A world where disastrous climate change is avoided, ecological and resource limits respected, and poverty … ( [email protected] ) is a consultant in IIED's Human Settlements Group and PhD candidate at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, …
Insight, 07 December 2015