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Community-driven disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in urban areas
Publication, 01 October 2011
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Assessing the effectiveness of climate adaptation
Publication, 01 October 2011
Women including mining engineer Judith Akorfa Buaba (centre) employed at the Dakete mine, in Ghana (Photo: Gabriela Flores Zavala)
Can mining dig rural women out of poverty in Ghana?
… from different backgrounds and professions from across the nation. IIED hosted an "action dialogue" in Ghana with people working in … of women who are involved in the sector globally. That is why IIED initiated the ASM action dialogue series to provide an opportunity … artisanal and small-scale mining communities. He is a member of IIED's advisory group on artisanal and small-scale mining. Resources …
Insight, 08 March 2016
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Connecting the dots: climate change, migration and social protection
Publication, 25 October 2021
Local logging bosses ('patrons') attend a training session on business organisation and forest management in the remote miombo forest near Caia in Central Mozambique (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Mozambique's forest theatre – how will the play end?
… problem. Mozambique's Simple License holders want to do just that. IIED's deliberate engagement with these local logging 'patrons' in a … is from within a Norwegian-funded project,  Testing REDD+ , that this IIED work is financed. We are not just working with the local logging … also play a key role. So in the spirit of engaging those that matter, IIED and partners are talking directly to those Chinese operators, …
Insight, 04 March 2015
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Food Consumption, Urbanisation and Rural Transformation. Regional workshop report, Hanoi
… In 2014 IIED launched the project Food transitions: sustainable consumption …
Publication, 01 December 2015
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Loss and damage case studies from the frontline: a resource to support practice and policy
Publication, 22 October 2021
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Climate Change Loss and Damage: 4th Deliberative Dialogue Report
Publication, 21 October 2021
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa opens COP22 (Photo: Takver, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Q&A: Key decisions needed at COP22
… has not yet been done.  Subhi Barakat , a senior researcher in IIED's Climate Change research group , explains: What is COP22? SB: The … are available on the UNFCCC website . Subhi Barakat (subhi.barakat@iied.org) is a senior researcher in IIED's Climate Change research group . He is an expert in public …
Article, 11 November 2016
Workers at the Dakete Gold Mine explain health and safety procedures in a powdering station. The IIED dialogue aimed to engage key stakeholders, including mineworkers, in a conversation about the future of ASM mining in Ghana (Photo: Friends of the Nation)
ASM dialogue creates ambition for change in Ghana
… IIED's first local artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) dialogue … and practice. It followed an earlier visioning workshop , held by IIED in London, which outlined a globally shared view for the sector. A … into an implementable work plan.  Through continued support from IIED and FON, the roadmap is being developed further in order to attract …
Insight, 15 September 2016