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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
… for mainstreaming biodiversity into development, for mainstreaming natural capital into policy planning, and recently we attended a … from a gender and learning adviser, we now have a peer support group with solid gender equality skills, ready to advise other … gender resource site gives IIED staff easy access to relevant resources, tools and information. In consultation with staff, we have …
Insight, 25 January 2018
A group of miners who are working the Kawa Ijen volcano in Java, Indonesia. The miners carry sulfur down the volcano and to the processing centre where the sulfur is weighed and the miner is paid (Photo: Adam Cohn, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Time to tell a new story about artisanal and small-scale mining: time for a new "indaba"
… It is not just a one-off process but a growing multi-stakeholder group established to continue to drive progress in the forest sector. In … Bass ( [email protected] ) is head of IIED's  Sustainable Markets Group . … Natural resource management …
Insight, 11 February 2015
The Food Change Lab engaged a wide group of voices from people in different parts of the food system in the Fort Portal region (Photo: Nimrod Bagonza)
Mixing more voices into food policy
… to achieve financial and food security. More production is depleting natural resources and preventing sustainable production over the long term. The … growth of street food vending in town, the Food Change Lab convened a group of diverse actors to explore the issues, review the evidence, and …
Insight, 10 October 2016
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Malawi-FGLG: Locally controlled forestry
… communities rights to both manage and commercially benefit from the natural resources on their land. However, some people still question whether … forest resource all at once. The Forest Governance Learning Group (FGLG) Malawi therefore commissioned a study to capture and spread …
Publication, 01 January 2009
UN climate negotiations video update: Forest day
… James Mayers, the head of IIED's natural resources group, discusses key themes being discussed at the UN Climate …
Insight, 04 December 2011
Woman digging a hole in the forest
Reimagining solutions to India’s water challenge: the art of governance
Insight, 20 January 2021
sandbags holding back river water
CBA14: Same great conference, entirely new environment
Insight, 07 July 2020
The Potato Park, Peru, which hosted a previous meeting of the International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (Image: IIED)
Mountain communities rebuild diverse, climate-resilient crops
News, 06 October 2015
A field team designing a REDD strategy in Mozambique talk to farmer Nimale Maribu Saidi as part of their research (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
What happened when IIED focused on research quality?
… research seriously – and has invested time, effort and financial resources in reflecting on the standards of research and in supporting … quality and evaluation Hosting a joint workshop with the Tanzania Natural Resource Forum to explore how to implement our ideas alongside … David Dodman is a senior researcher in IIED's human settlements group ( [email protected] ) Download Research ethics: Putting our …
Insight, 13 March 2014
Paying local communities for ecosystem services: The Chimpanzee Conservation Corridor
… the populations in the Budongo and Bugoma reserves, therefore halting natural inter-breeding across different populations. Further, the loss … place such as a estimated ‘without PES baseline scenario’ and control group surveys.  This means that the scheme can be rigorously checked for … PES schemes, which often lack an adequate counterfactual or control group for comparison. This video highlights the key work chimpanzee …
Project, 22 June 2011