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Knowledge in action for urban equality
… Development Goals as well as the ‘New Urban Agenda’.  The 'Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality’ (KNOW) programme was led by  The Bartlett … (CUJAE)  to explore the potentials of university-led initiatives in brokering more equitable relationships between neighbourhoods and the … Knowledge in action for urban equality …
Project, 28 September 2021
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Getting local adaptation expertise into global spaces: five key messages we’re taking forward from CBA17
… from over 60 countries to discuss, debate and devise practical ways for driving forward locally led adaptation (LLA) to climate change.  … of the value of local and Indigenous as well as scientific knowledge would help to rebalance the system.  Let’s not fake locally … communities and their representatives, scientists and engineers for sustainable and scalable integration of their perspectives in planning, …
Insight, 20 June 2023
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Seizing opportunities for urban change: Make Change Happen podcast episode 3
… women’s saving groups in India, which banded together to share knowledge and leverage power, becoming a federation. In the 1990s, they were gathering local data and brokering agreements with local government. These methods were shared … agenda', Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals, ambitions for sustainable urbanisation are high. But Satterthwaite notes a …
Article, 04 February 2020
Farmer stands in her field of groundnuts boarded by maize in Malawi
Democratising food and agricultural research
… potential to address the challenges of food security, poverty and sustainable natural resource management. It can generate knowledge, technologies and policies for sustainable agricultural development, working across disciplines, …
Project, 17 August 2012
More than 70 people joined the webinar about evaluation and voluntary national reviews. You can watch a recording of the webinar at the bottom of this page (Image: IIED)
Evaluations, reviews and assessments are key to embedding the SDGs
… means understanding national politics as much as fuelling movements for social action. It means dealing with hard-to-predict, intricate and … different interested parties. Ultimately for evaluators this means brokering the values, views and needs of different stakeholders while new knowledge is generated about effectiveness, efficiency, equity and …
Insight, 19 July 2017
Farmers and extension workers jointly assessing an okra field in Balkh Province, Northern Afghanistan
Agricultural Research for Development: Are we moving in the right direction?
… The first Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD) held in 2010 aimed to address key challenges and opportunities facing agricultural research and how knowledge and agricultural technologies are generated and disseminated. … increasing the incomes and improving the livelihoods of farmers on a sustainable basis, while providing nutritional food to their family …
Insight, 07 November 2012
We have in the past few years made progress on the theories and understanding of social learning approaches. But more research and real-life case studies are needed (Photo: Z Sewunet (ILRI)
Paving the way for social learning in the climate change context
Insight, 24 March 2014
New Potato Deal in Peru Signposts Global Drive to Open Up Food Genebanks to Indigenous Peoples
… diversity to farming communities and the natural environment for local and global benefit. The initiative will be conducted in a … restores these rights whilst recognising that "the conservation, sustainable use and development of maximum agrobiodiversity is of vital … new deal is unique because it will "ensure that genetic resources and knowledge remain under the custody of local communities and do not …
News, 18 January 2005
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Sustainable energy: can a new initiative succeed where Rio+20 failed?
… subsidies, and even less talk on providing access to energy services for the 1.3 billion people who don't currently have it. Energy for all Step forward Sustainable Energy For All (SE4ALL) — led by UN secretary-general Ban … the globe. This could further catalyse interest, investment and knowledge-sharing. But initiatives coming under the SE4ALL banner must …
Insight, 25 June 2012