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Development and Climate Days 2020
… that encourages dialogue on a range of issues that link policy, knowledge and practice for climate ambition. This year's event was part … The answer is simple: it is our job to care. And as climate risk management practitioners it’s hard to care for others when others don’t … IIED Speakers:  Violet Shivutse, grassroots leader, founder and coordinator at Shibuye Community Health Workers Kenya and chair of …
Event, 02 December 2020
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IIED's best of 2019: publications
… community will agree a new 10-year strategy for biodiversity management. Ensuring this works for both biodiversity and for people … with others to generate innovation at scale, researching local knowledge to inform global thinking. It also highlights our focus on …
Article, 23 December 2019
The influx of migrants and refugees onto the island of Lesbos was met with an influx of responders from various sectors who often did not effectively collaborate early on in the response (Tyler Jump/International Rescue Committee)
Finding space for dialogue when urban crises hit
… at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) . Overlooking local knowledge Local municipalities, disaster management agencies, NGOs, civil society and individuals can guide … Corcoran ([email protected]) is content officer in IIED's Communications Group . …
News, 26 October 2016
A woman hands protective equipment to another woman.
Engaging pastoralist communities through citizen movements to amplify their voice
… changing weather patterns directly affect customary natural resource management and adaptation strategies. The alliance does not have any … The main source of information is generated through Indigenous knowledge and practices, for example forecasts are generated through … very expensive to connect and sustain connections.  There is limited communications infrastructure in the region. In Isiolo County for …
Article, 11 December 2020
Agricultural biodiversity in a Peruvian market. Photo: Bioversity International/A. Camacho
Building resilient food systems
… with, for and by people This project was a collaborative research and communications programme coordinated by IIED in Africa, China, the … materials and clean water, and are integrated with systems of waste management. Key findings from this research can be found in this news … to co-manage rangelands with the government, using indigenous knowledge and new insights from the science of non-equilibrium ecology …
Project, 14 August 2013
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PLA 61: Tales of shit: Community-Led Total Sanitation in Africa
… Africa: a path to child and youth empowerment? Cathy Shutt Part II: Management/organisational changes Participatory development approaches … sanitation in the developing world through capacity development and knowledge management as a contribution to equity, health, poverty … WSSCC focuses on  networking and knowledge management ,  advocacy and communications  and administering a  Global Sanitation Fund , The latter …
Article, 01 November 2010
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"
… to accelerate human development and wellbeing. "We need a very strong communications strategy," she said. "How can we use communications to … about the power of partnerships: how marrying scientific and local knowledge and creating new and different partnerships can shift the … to see. Mairi Dupar ([email protected]) is global public affairs coordinator at CDKN. This blog was orginally posted by CDKN . …
Insight, 06 December 2015
‘Act on nature’, demand hundreds of organisations, in unprecedented call to world leaders
… from world leaders: Yolanda Teran Maigua, education and culture coordinator at Indigenous Women Network on Biodiversity from Latin … have always depended on nature for survival through traditional knowledge practices, human and animals treatment.Today, Man's inhuman … another decade for this to happen!" Francis Boafo Asamoah, global communications manager at Youth for Our Planet, said: “It is time to …
News, 18 September 2020
The mountain gorilla is among the endangered species at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, which was the focus of a a recent radio show series on conservation efforts (Photo: Dilys Roe/IIED)
Broadcasting to Bwindi
… work was split into two phases. The first involved developing a 'knowledge, attitude and behaviour' (KAB) document (PDF) , setting out … Dr. Panta Kasoma, Jane Goodall Institute-Uganda director and U-PCLG coordinator, suggested that poverty was something that could not be … environmental educator working with U-PCLG and PCI Media Impact as a communications coordinator for a project on great apes conservation and …
Insight, 28 July 2015
Community technicians and coordinators in Uganda chat with a local farmer during a monitoring visit. These discussions are a key connection between the technical and local worlds in carbon forestry (Photo: Geoff Wells)
Bridging the two worlds of carbon forestry
… put trees in the ground, but their expertise to adapt the technical knowledge to the local environmental and social context. Thirdly, the … central contact, sometimes called a community 'representative', 'coordinator' or 'technician'. They act as translators between the two …
Insight, 05 April 2017