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IIED's Essam Yassin Mohammed directs questions to UCL senior lecturer Peter Jones on Marine Protected Areas (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Critical theme: Governing Marine Protected Areas
… discussed Governing Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)  in front of IIED staff and external guests. Governing Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), with UCL's Peter Jones from IIED Exploring the argument that the key to …
Event, 06 October 2014
Sheep grazing dry season pastures in Mopti, Mali (Photo: Near East Foundation)
Decentralising Climate Funds in Mali and Senegal
Project, 19 March 2015
Women washing laundry at Sélingué dam, Mali, the second largest provider of energy for the country (Photo: Alioune Ba/Global Water Initiative)
Three big financial shifts put spotlight on social and environmental impacts of large dams — again
… of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), is whether it is possible to build dams to mitigate climate … of finance through the global carbon market. The European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme is a major source of this funding but EU … "It provides a numerical and visual output. It is done by an external certified assessor according to methods agreed by a …
News, 06 May 2014
Delegates discuss the Hilsa Conservation Trust Fund at the Bangladesh workshop. The fund is part of work to enhance the effectiveness of incentive-based fisheries management (Photo: Essam Yassin Mohammed/IIED)
Conservation trust fund proposed to help manage Bangladesh fish stocks
… between the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS) , the … on fisher households and moved to compensate them. The government's actions are unique in that they have now been running this compensation without any external assistance for over 10 years, for which they should be …
News, 25 June 2015
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Developing Markets for Watershed Protection Services and Improved Livelihoods
… held at a workshop to discuss the interim lessons learned from the IIED project "Developing Markets for Watershed Protection Services and Improved Livelihoods". In October 2001, IIED embarked on a project to explore the potential of market-based … was an inception workshop held in January 2004, which was attended by external interested stakeholders also (see Implementation Phase Planning …
Publication, 01 December 2005
Coral Reef. Economists at the BioEcon conference Credit: Magnus Manske (creative commons)
The value of valuing ecosystem services
… I joined the workshop as a ‘practicing economist’, working with IIED and partners in developing countries where the environmental … it? Maybe it needs to demonstrate the evidence of its impact to an external, wider audience at the macro level and highlight or challenge … must be acknowledged. But regardless of what we believe about nature’s values, we must be able to know the costs of using it. As Pushpam …
Insight, 28 September 2012
Peer review of The Netherlands National Strategy for Sustainable Development
… for Sustainable Development (NSDS), such as internal reviews, external auditing, parliamentary and budgetary reviews, and … 2005, at the request of the French government, Barry Dalal-Clayton, IIED senior fellow and director of the strategic planning and assessment programme, developed an options-based peer review approach. It sought to meet several guiding factors: …
Project, 01 May 2008
Diagram showing the traditional channels for delivering aid (Image: IIED)
Money where it matters: local finance to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement
… IIED is working to highlight the importance of decentralising … Ensuring that funding is accountable to local communities as well as external donors will require significant changes to the way that … access investments to catalyse enterprises and income in Tanzania's rural communities , Sarah Best, Ben Garside (2016), IIED report …
Article, 25 January 2017
UNESCO considers Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area to be of global importance for biodiversity conservation, but it faces significant development pressure from tourism (Photo: Justin, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Mainstreaming nature and biodiversity into wider planning and policy
… increase the vulnerability of poor people to climate change and other external shocks and reduce their options for development. But … values into climate and development action we are: Building on IIED’s broader experience of environmental mainstreaming to integrate both …
Article, 16 August 2013
An association of farmers in northeast Myanmar carries out value chain analysis of elephant foot yam (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Strengthening producer organisations is key to making finance inclusive and effective
… the “Innovative finance for sustainable landscapes” interview series, IIED forest team leader Duncan Macqueen (DM) spoke with Tropenbos International ’s Nick Pasiecznik (NP). Macqueen's research focuses on the success … from their members. More financial de-risking is required for external investors. There are five immediate priorities: link producer …
Article, 12 March 2019