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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
… summit and it felt big to me. It felt important to be there in an IIED communications capacity, but also as a woman and an activist. I … , was on the D&C Days closing panel and spoke energetically about how she mobilises slum-dwelling women to demand their land rights. She … those of the asset managers.  Anne Schulthess ( anne.schulthess@iied.org ) is marketing manager in IIED's Communications Group . …
Insight, 06 December 2017
Nine toolkits are available to share the experiences of Southern networks carrying out climate change advocacy (Image: Southern Voices)
It's getting hot here: Southern advocacy to address climate change
Insight, 09 January 2015
IIED's Krystyna Swiderska discusses the latest research on how indigenous people adapt to climate change at a side event at the 2016 UN climate conference in Marrakech (Photo: Teresa Corcoran/IIED)
Indigenous people use own knowledge to boost food yields despite climate change, research finds
News, 22 November 2016
Illustrator Jorge Martin creates a 'living graphic' to chart the conversations on 'tough talk on poverty and climate' at the 2015 Development & Climate Days (Photo: IIED/Matt Wright)
Participants in Development & Climate Days focus on "bold action needed now"
Insight, 06 December 2015
The United Nations headquarters in New York City (Photo: Wally Goetz, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The right to sustainable development: what the post-2015 agenda declaration should say – but won't
Insight, 18 February 2015
International days are used to promote awareness and action on important topics. But how does IIED engage with them? (Image: IIED)
Seizing the day without falling off the bandwagon
… (the latter aptly coming later in the year), but what is their point? How can they best be harnessed by organisations? And what have we … intended to promote awareness and action on important topics. At IIED, we treat these days as opportunities to highlight our work and … times our average number of people followed web links. On www.iied.org , our key related pages recorded significant increases in traffic, …
Insight, 19 November 2015
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Circling the point: from ICT4D to Web 2.0 and back again (PLA 59)
… ICT4D was mostly driven by technology hype and a narrow approach to how we use the tools. In contrast, Web 2.0 tools have a stronger focus … peer-reviewed by an international editorial board. See: www.planotes.org Article in: PLA 59. Guest editors: Holly Ashley, Jon Corbett, Ben Garside and Giacomo Rambaldi. Published by IIED and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation …
Publication, 01 June 2009
Bangladesh: schoolchildren attend lessons at a school located on a boat (Photo: G.M.B. Akash/PANOS)
Ten lessons on community-based adaptation
… with the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS) and a local … Climate Change Centre . Other innovative sessions have included how-to-learn-from-failure and using art and visual forms of … to Climate Change (CBA10).​ Dr Saleemul Huq  ( saleemul.huq@iied.org ) is the director of the International Centre for Climate Change and …
Insight, 16 March 2016
The people of southern Bangladesh are resilient and good at adapting to change: the most common vehicle in the city of Mongla is an electric rickshaw powered by a 12volt battery (Photo: Andrew Norton/IIED)
Snapshots of a changing world – climate change impacts in Bangladesh
… and Bangladesh's great ecological treasure, a group of women told me how they had arrived there. Originally from Koyra Sub-District on the … Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) in Dhaka and IIED senior fellow, is keen to change the narrative around climate … to underpin positive change. Andrew Norton ( andrew.norton@iiied.org ) is director of IIED. …
Insight, 01 February 2018
Fatima Denton, a member of IIED’s Independent Expert Group, speaking at the Development and Climate Days conference (Photo: Matt Wright)
Zero carbon – costs and opportunities for Least Developed Countries
… a zero carbon development approach. But as Mariteuw Chimère Diaw from IIED's Independent Expert Group (IEG)  reminded the event, this is not a … to be ready to recognise them, to adapt our behaviour and rethink how we all live our lives as part of a zero carbon, zero poverty … to listen to what they have to say.  Helen Burley (helen.burley@iied.org) is communications officer at IIED. …
Insight, 10 December 2015