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Fishermen offloading their morning catch from a fishing boat in Kalindi, West Bengal (Photo: Souvik Das Gupta, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Creating waves for small-scale fisheries
Insight, 17 November 2016
Clothes drying on a building
IIED and partners call for cities to develop a proactive response to urban displacement
… to the UN High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement, calling for a proactive urban response to the global challenge of displacement. … on the urban dimension of displacement and its implications for policy and practice. This submission was jointly drafted by  Dr Isis … the international research community and globally, to influence the sustainable development agenda. IIED is currently leading a study …
News, 10 June 2020
Sustainability appraisal framework for southern Africa
… experience and practice Adapted to Southern African decision-making, policy and planning systems, and Sensitive to skills requirements and … assessed There is a widely held assumption that better strategic, integrated planning will improve the chances of countries to realise … development objectives (including progress with National Strategies for Sustainable Development) Human resources and institutional capacity …
Project, 02 May 2008
Women selling fish in Nyakrom, Central Ghana. The food economy is the largest informal sector in West Africa (Photo: aripeskoe2, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Green grows the informal economy
… From green economy plans to the Sustainable Development Goals, ambitions for growth have the word 'inclusive' built into them. It's an easy word … from the discussions that could guide the development of a new policy agenda on informality and green growth: 1. Use positive language  … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 10 March 2016
Two forest farmers from Ghana, including the head of a local community forest group, alongside some cocoa beans (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Integrating forests into the post-2015 development framework
… hard to find a simpler and more universal way of changing the world for the better than by planting and managing trees. Yet there was … national or sub-national levels) to build 'SDG modules' for the policy areas of each ministry, agency or equivalent institution. For more information, read the briefing on 'Integrated approaches to SDG implementation and indicators: focus on …
Project, 21 May 2014
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Of Dreams and Shadows: Seeking change for the institutionalisation of participation for natural resource management
… Mexican government developed and implemented an innovative programme for regional sustainable development (PRODERS). This programme was designed as the anchor for Mexico’s sustainable development policy, and was founded on the principles of participation, decentralisation and integrated development. Participatory policy analysis was used to …
Publication, 01 January 2004
The Deccan Development society works with poor women in Andhra Pradesh, India. It facilitates a network of women seedkeepers who conserve and exchange seeds (Photo: Deccan Development Society)
Why women's empowerment is essential for sustainable development
… Gender equality is rightly seen as crucial to sustainable development, with its own Sustainable Development Goal (Goal … and senior business figures puts forward a powerful argument for change. Why Women Will Save the Planet  argues that these … development but there is more to be done to influence wider policy and practice. This new book, published as part of Friends of the …
Insight, 02 February 2016
A market takes place in the village of Tiogo next to the Tiogo Forest in Burkina Faso. With much of the food and hand crafts on sale from the forest, the community is dependent on the conservation of the forest to maintain their livelihoods (Photo: CIF Action, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Towards a fairer future for conservation
… government, the United Nations triumphantly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its associated Sustainable Development Goals … in the SDGs.    What does 'fair' mean? In the world of conservation policy, 'equity' is the word used in discussions of fairness; in the …
Insight, 05 September 2016
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
… poor people adapt to, and mitigate the effects of, climate change. For example, preserving trees and maintaining biodiversity can help … concerns must be taken into wider climate and development planning, policy and projects. Equally, poverty and livelihoods issues must be integrated into conservation policy and planning – this is the focus of …
Article, 16 August 2013
A trolley load and shelves of cinnamon dry inside a special drying facility
Vietnamese forest and farm producers work towards more resilient livelihoods and landscapes
… role in improving food security, reducing poverty, and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). But many family farms are … of family farmers to improve access to markets and increase policy influence, as well as giving them the collective scale to … , has been supporting farmers growing cinnamon, star anise, plants for herbal medicine and mulberry for silkworm farms. Stronger together …
Insight, 27 May 2019