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Community participation, with a strong focus on women, such as this women's savings group in Southern India, is vital to develop slum-friendly cities (Photo: Maria Andersson/Individuell Människohjälp, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
What might slum dwellers want from the SDGs?
… government commitments made at Habitat I (the first UN Conference on Human Settlements) in Vancouver in 1976; then at Habitat II in Istanbul … from an interview by  David Satterthwaite , a senior fellow in IIED's Human Settlements Group . …
Insight, 05 October 2015
Camp site with several informal tents made of fabric and plastic.
Are humanitarian agencies starting from scratch again in Haiti?
… and services, or improving them by ‘building back better’. Building human resource capacity is generally not a project objective, measured …
Insight, 24 October 2021
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Environmental Assessment in Tanzania: A needs assessment for training
… and legal framework for EIA, but for EIA to be effective human resources development programmes need to be tailored to the …
Publication, 01 January 1995
In 1992 the United Nations called Mexico City "the most polluted city on the planet". City authorities took radical steps to cut pollution, but Mexico City still has smog and is increasingly vulnerable to climate change (Photo: Fidel Gonzalez, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)
Should cities invest in climate mitigation?
… the best financial risk-reward ratio. What are the implications for human development goals? While the working paper identified significant …  ( [email protected] )  is a researcher with IIED's Human Settlements Group and one of the authors of Accelerating …
Insight, 21 September 2015
A family guards their crops from wild animals on the boundary of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Photo: Mariel Harrison)
Conservation works better with social justice
… more national park-related jobs filled by local people, reduced human-wildlife conflict and better access to sustainable resource use. … developed from what was a revolutionary idea to encompass issues of human rights, governance and power into mainstream political, legal and …
Insight, 20 August 2014
Man handing a package to another man. They are all wearing face masks.
Are India’s social protection schemes ‘future fit’?
… covered by social protection programmes and often have to work in sub-human conditions to survive, stripped of rights, benefits and …
Insight, 09 October 2020
Shift power to people to preserve natural world, urges report
… water, food, medicines and stable climate that are essential for human well-being. "Biodiversity is being lost faster than at any other time in human history," says lead author Krystyna Swiderska. "The current system …
News, 08 October 2008
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IIED Annual Report 2008/09: A sense of direction
Publication, 01 November 2009
A group of villagers
A tale of two villages: community perspectives on the impact of Botswana’s trophy hunting ban
… in May 2019. One of the main reasons they gave was the increase in human-wildlife conflict experienced by people in many rural areas across …
Insight, 24 January 2020
Community representatives gather together to record their knowledge about dryland resources as part of a participatory mapping process in Isiolo County, Kenya. (Photo: James Pattison/IIED)
Strengthening civil society to support natural resource management
… African CSOs revolve around the interconnected issues of funding, human resources, strategy, and leadership. Leading and potentially … to operate in a constrained environment, with marked shortfalls in human resources, experienced organisational leaders, and long-term core …
Insight, 29 July 2015