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Someone puts the final piece of a jigsaw into the puzzle
Is SDG evaluation just business as usual?
… to unsustainable consumption and production, unequal distribution of resources and poor respect of human rights. Development aid, as we know … Reflect on the foundations of sustainable development: the natural system, equitable prosperity, economic progress, and democratic …
Insight, 21 April 2020
PLA 53 cover
PLA 53: Tools for influencing power and policy
…  project. Many people's lives involve the day-to-day management of natural resources. Such intimate interaction creates awareness of the technical, … the definition of policies and institutions that govern their use of natural resources. The policy gap between the powerful and marginalised …
Article, 01 December 2005
Mozambique: bringing the cattle in from the fields. Mozambique is vulnerable to climate change because of its geography, but also has a poorly developed economy, frail infrastructure, and high levels of poverty (Photo: ILRI/Stevie Mann, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Climate finance from the aid budget must also deliver on poverty
Insight, 30 September 2015
Annual report 2009/10
… better prepared cities unscathed. IIED investigated how so-called ‘natural’ disasters could be prevented through community action. Doing … at a lower cost, resulting in friendlier and healthier settlements. Natural resources Fair sharing of genetic gems:  agreement was close on the …
Page, 21 October 2010
Tidal damage on the small island nation of Kiribati. Small island developing nations, especially the atoll nations of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, are among the poorest and most vulnerable to climate change (Photo: Jodie Gatfield, AusAID)
Paris Agreement must stand on three pillars
Insight, 01 June 2015
Reforestation program in Guatemala (Photo: Enrique Varahona)
Forest and Farm Facility Phase I
… own enterprises that improve livelihoods, sustain and restore the natural resources that underpin them and secure intergenerational communities …
Project, 29 May 2014
Annual report 2006/07
… and conservation alike – a project in which IIED was a key partner. Natural resources IED Afrique comes of age:  IIED Sahel became Innovations … forum:  in September 2006, IIED’s Poverty and Conservation Learning Group was launched: a major platform for 70 conservation organisations …
Page, 16 April 2008
Old woman in profile in front of thatched hut and mud house. Niger.
Making gender and generation matter
… relations when analysing access and control over land and other natural resources. The first stage of this project was expanding ongoing … generation. The case studies include: Gender and access to land and natural resources in Mali and Niger : this paper outlines research …
Project, 26 April 2011
Cover for 10540IIED.pdf
Ecological Urbanization
… city’s physical fabric is developed around accommodations with the natural environment. Every city draws on environmental resources, continuously remaking the built environment, working around …
Publication, 01 April 2006
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'
News, 15 December 2014