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More than 80 representatives of slum-dwellers federations attended the 9th World Urban Forum in Kuala Lumpur (Photo: United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: the World Urban Forum brought together governments and grassroots – what next?
Article, 14 February 2018
Surveying residents in low-income housing in Vijinapura, India. Receiving accurate data about slums can help local authorities plan solutions (Photo: cstepin, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Co-producing urban innovation from the bottom up
News, 24 October 2016
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Tackling gender inequality to promote inclusion and justice in society
… January 2018, I co-wrote a blog  summarising how far we'd come since IIED launched its gender manifesto in 2016. At the very end of the … to adding a policy to the framework for guiding decisions across IIED. With this gender equality policy, we've signalled an aspiration to … and confidence are changing.  Findings, for example, from an IIED and Embassy of Ireland project in Tanzania on the links between …
Insight, 06 July 2020
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Why gender matters for biodiversity conservation
Publication, 24 November 2022
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Traditional mountain landscapes: crucial for meeting biodiversity and climate targets
Publication, 23 November 2022
IIED received some warm responses to a survey on its publications carried out last year (Image: Nick Turner/IIED)
Feeling the love
Insight, 11 February 2016
Maurice Strong at the High Level Dialogue on Global Sustainability, Rio de Janeiro, June 2012 (Photo: Sergio Greif, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Remembering Maurice Strong, pioneering environmental champion
… Maurice Strong, we have lost one of the last links to the founding of IIED. Maurice was one of IIED's creators, his involvement stemming from the UN Conference on the … focus: the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) was born. Maurice became an IIED board member and remained a firm …
Insight, 04 December 2015
A last-minute speaker change resulted in IIED participating in an all-male panel (or 'manel') at the UN climate summit (Photo: Anne Schulthess)
Missing voices: let's hear women's experience of climate change
Insight, 06 December 2017
Camilla Toulmin has led IIED since 2004
Camilla Toulmin to step down in 2015
Insight, 29 October 2014
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Radical adaptation in agriculture: tackling the roots of climate vulnerability
Publication, 01 September 2015