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Driving impact at the G20: lessons from IIED's engagement with philanthropies
… civil society engagement within the G20 – features its first working group focused on philanthropy. The C20 working group 9 on philanthropy and sustainable development  is co-chaired by … actors, such as philanthropic organisations, offer their networks, resources and knowledge to advance transformational change through the …
Insight, 24 July 2024
Recovering wildlife populations in Namibia are largely attributed to policies that give local people rights to benefit from wildlife on their land (Photo: Ronald Woan, Creative Commons via Flickr)
There’s justice in the battle for biodiversity 
… Human activity has irrefutably hammered our natural world. Recent reports  from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy … world’s poorest countries and people, whose livelihoods often rely on natural resources or foraging. In India, ecosystem services accounted for 16% of … Natural resource management …
Insight, 28 June 2018
A women's group in Kenya scores social impacts of protected areas using a participatory rural appraisal method (Photo: Phil Franks/IIED)
Equity, inclusion, conservation and the SDGs
… In the SDGs these terms are mostly used in relation to access to resources, services and inclusion. In conservation policy … of the benefits and costs of conservation as well as access to natural resources and participation. On the other hand, organisations … a senior researcher in IIED's Natural Resources Group . …
Insight, 29 March 2016
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Participatory Land Use Planning as a Tool for Community Empowerment in Northern Tanzania
… Across much of Africa, surging competition over land and resources amongst local, national,and international groups of people is … rural communities of control over and access to the territories and natural resources upon which their livelihoods depend. Development … strategies that reconcile emerging conflicts over land and natural resource use, and which provide local communities with secure …
Publication, 01 December 2010
UNESCO considers Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area to be of global importance for biodiversity conservation, but it faces significant development pressure from tourism (Photo: Justin, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Mainstreaming nature and biodiversity into wider planning and policy
… preserving trees and maintaining biodiversity can help provide natural protection against flooding, while diverse traditional crops … poverty – for example, if poor peoples’ access to essential natural resources is curtailed by setting up protected areas, which they are … , we have been supporting the emergence of an African Leadership Group on Biodiversity Mainstreaming which has, to date, involved working …
Article, 16 August 2013
The journey to fetch fresh water for a resident of the Dharavi slum in Mumbai, India (Photo: Meena Kadri, Creative Commons via Flickr)
World Water Week 2016: key resources
… senior researcher in IIED's Shaping Sustainable Markets research group , discussed in her blog for World Water Day  how the United Nations is now promoting the concept of 'natural capital accounting' and how it can potentially help increase … helped the government to design better ways to manage their natural resources and make decisions based on local needs. And while natural …
Article, 24 August 2016
Fishing boats
Delivering sustainable fisheries through fiscal incentives
… known as ‘harmful subsidies’ – they often lead to overexploitation of natural resources.  Fiscal reforms that support sustainable practices can make a difference to the conservation and sustainable use of fisheries resources. For example, ‘good or positive’ subsidies can be used to … Natural resource management …
Project, 31 July 2019
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Forest Governance Learning Group - Cameroon: Work plan 2013
… The Forest Governance Learning Group is an informal alliance of in-country groups and international … teams. Cameroon intend to conduct a participatory assessment of key natural resources streams for very small forest enterprises and engage in … Forest Governance Learning Group - Cameroon: Work plan 2013 …
Publication, 01 April 2013
Two men sit on a bench and take notes, while a small crowd sits on the floor in front of them.
Conservation and discrimination: case studies from Nepal’s national parks
… Land and natural resources are fundamental to the culture, social relations, and identity … Indigenous communities. Yet conservation policies and programmes, natural resource extraction and mega-development projects have deprived …
Article, 13 April 2022
A man stands on a cut down tree amid a landscape of timber
China’s investments, Africa’s forests: from raw deals to mutual gains?
… surge – sometimes linked to deals in which China secures natural resources – will morph into the world’s biggest sustainable development … small enterprises that individually remain off the radar to date. A a group of Chinese enterprises that together account for much of the … Natural resource management …
Insight, 19 June 2019