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Moving Slowly and Reaching Far: Institutionalising participatory planning for child-centred community development: Participatory planning in Redd Barna Uganda: Reflections and guidelines.
… that recognise, analyse and address intra-communal differences and human resource development. The awareness of the contribution that …
Publication, 01 January 1996
The UN estimates that a million Somalis were displaced during 2017. Many move to informal settlements on the fringes of the capital, Mogadishu (Photo: AMISOM Public Information via Wikimedia Commons)
Providing shelter in East African cities: what works?
… Diane Archer ( [email protected] ) is senior researcher in IIED's Human Settlements research group . …
Insight, 22 February 2018
Urban Africa Risk Knowledge (Urban ARK) logo on top of arial photo of Niamey, Niger
Urban ARK work programmes and locations
… the physical processes of natural hazards and their interaction with human systems. It involved exploring hazard interactions, their impact …
Article, 26 August 2018
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Climate Policy 2(2002) 243-246 The Bonn-Marrakech Agreements on Funding
… of the poor developing countries to the adverse impacts of human induced climate change (IPCC, 2001). It goes on to emphasize the …
Publication, 01 January 2002
The Up in Smoke coalition is a unique and diverse network of development and environment organisations
Up in Smoke
… in Smoke reports were compiled into a book called  Climate Change and Human Development  written by Hannah Reid and published by  Zed Books . … Threats from, and Responses to, the Impact of Global Warming on Human Development This report was the first publication from the Up in …
Project, 21 August 2008
Polluted air coming out of the smoke stacks of a factory in Shanghai, China.
The least developed countries, equity, and a brave new world
… atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide breaching the records of human history , achieving the Convention’s ultimate goal of preventing … gross national income of under $750 USD. Second, they possess weak human assets, which the UN bases on indicators of: nutrition, health, …
Insight, 02 July 2013
Hotel Sri Tahjung
Rafts of rubber and a hotel for birds with spit that sells
… to harvest natural resources from Kaja and other islands where today human visitors are banned so the rare orangutans can roam unmolested. … rubber are among the many profitable offspring of marriages between human ingenuity and nature’s capacity to give. But even as that capacity …
Insight, 21 February 2012
UN talks must resolve key issues to ensure fair and sustainable use of biodiversity
… importance for community subsistence." Biodiversity is central to human wellbeing. For millennia, communities around the world have …
News, 13 July 2010
People wearing face masks and medical suits
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Article, 22 December 2020
Report urges forestry industry to tackle conflict with local people
… group of forest experts from business, environmental, academic and human rights groups. The report, written for TFD by the International … says Marcus Colchester, Director of the Forest Peoples Programme, a human rights group. “As this report stresses, conflicts may be rooted in …
News, 08 July 2009