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Challenging inequality is at the heart of climate change adaptation
Insight, 23 April 2013
New web resource helps to boost development with sound environmental management
… don't engage properly with stakeholders so they fail to contribute to human wellbeing in the long term. Or they assume the environment is a …
News, 10 August 2010
An image of women selling produce in an internally displaced persons camp, near Tawilla in North Darfur. The 'leave no one behind' agenda aims to ensure the poor are included in sustainable development (Photo: UNAMID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Unpacking what we mean by 'leave no one behind'
… countries' around issues such as governance, the application of human rights, and access to health and education. The value of data …
Article, 24 May 2016
2009 Development and Climate Days film festival highlights
…   The Earth Story : Animation highlights climate change caused by human activity over the past generations.   Voices for Climate Change : …
Article, 22 July 2010
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) of Bangladesh won the Earth Care Award 2012 for spearheading the Least Developed Countries Fund project 'Community-based adaptation to climate change through coastal afforestation in Bangladesh' (Photo: UNDP Adaptation Learning Mechanism)
Making the climate fund fit for purpose
… community. LDCs typically do not have the institutional or human capacity to develop elaborate project proposals needed to compete …
Insight, 27 August 2015
World Urban Forum 2008
Event, 30 October 2008
A family living in a cemetery in Cebu City, the Philippines. A lack of affordable housing has led some 100 families to set up home among the mausoleums (Photo: Karl Fluch, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Who can we trust to measure urban poverty?
… Colenbrander ([email protected]) is a researcher in IIED's Human Settlements research group . This blog originally appeared on the …
Insight, 13 June 2017
Climate change and religion in flooded Bangkok
… moral responsibility of each and every one of us towards our fellow human beings and our environment. The meeting  ended with a strong …
Insight, 20 October 2011
Women using the Changu Changu Moto Fuel-Efficient Clean Cookstove, Malawi, Africa (Photo: Ripple Africa)
Technologies for sustainable development: mind the gender gap
… Irrigation Policy and development strategy. A treadle pump is a human-powered suction pump that sits on top of a well/river bank and is …
Insight, 30 April 2018
No easy, quick solutions to improving life in the "slums"
… dwellers International Written by Diana Mitlin, Acting Head of IIED's Human Settlements Group …
Insight, 05 September 2011