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Around a billion urban dwellers live in informal settlements such as these. Without far more effective policies, their population could rise to 2 billion by 2030 (Photo: Mark Edwards)
Ten essentials for the New Urban Agenda in one page
… important goals. It seeks instead to push attention away from long lists that repeat commitments already made to the means by which these …
Insight, 19 July 2016
An image of crouching community members in a village in Champasak province, Laos identify areas where open defecation is taking place ahead of implementing sanitation measures (Photo: Viengsompasong Inthavong/World Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
An urban approach to 'leaving no one behind'
Insight, 02 June 2016
Open letter to Bill Gates on African land acquisitions
News, 11 February 2011
Cover for G03777.pdf
Entebbe Statement on Biodiversity in Development Planning (Arabic)
… and conditions as by those of biodiversity conservation, it lists key benefits of biodiversity to socio-economic development, and …
Publication, 01 August 2013
A wind farm outside Adigrat, northern Ethiopia, is an example of low-carbon renewable technologies can initiate a process of transformational change within developing countries
Green Climate Fund: a big step forward, but many decisions pending
Insight, 28 February 2014
Hundreds of power-tillers from China lie unused in Ethiopia. They can be used to plow, power a water-pump, and generate electricity, but low sales were thought to be caused by a lack of technical information, showing how China's role in African agriculture must be researched (Photo: IFPRI-IMAGES, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Chinese engagement in African agriculture is not what it seems
Insight, 06 April 2016
Can international law break the deadlock in climate talks?
Insight, 06 December 2010
The Bairro Proletário do Dique in Rio de Janeiro was settled in the 1960s. The local infrastructure remains poor (Photo: Mariana Gil/EMBARQ Brasil, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Is more inclusive urbanisation essential to the 2030 Agenda?
Insight, 02 March 2016
Construction workers build a hotel in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. Credit: Overseas Development Institute / Antony Robbins (Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en_GB)
Time to hear LDC voices on Post-2015 development goals
Insight, 10 December 2013
Cover for G01074.pdf
Liberalização, Género e Meios de Sustento: Castanha de Caju em Mocambique
Publication, 01 May 2004