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Urban climate action champion Debra Roberts gave the 2016 Barbara Ward Lecture (Image: IIED)
2016 Barbara Ward Lecture: Debra Roberts says global urbanisation strategy needs greater focus on practical implementation
… Ward Lecture was live streamed, and each of the three sessions – the introduction by IIED director Andrew Norton , Roberts' lecture , and the … that allow everyone to come to the table, across all scales, local through international, across horizontal barriers, in order to … Roberts began her career as a biologist, but in 1994 moved into local government as Durban's first environmental manager, dealing with …
Article, 11 October 2016
Cover for G01835.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 11 Experimenting to solve water management problems: Lele community in Nepal
… Lele community in Nepal Raju Khadka, Laxmi Paudyal and Hari Subba Introduction maintaining and sustaining their water supply by … identification and analysis, leading to Kathmandu. Since 1995, the local NGO Nepal action such as a fining system by the WUC Water for …
Publication, 01 January 1999
Cover for G01839.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 15 Participatory evaluation of a community water project in Tanzania
… in Tanzania Kate Forrester Kibuga, Simon Bibby and Alfred Sakafu Introduction WaterAid staff have accompanied district teams on their … NGO which supports preparation for the participatory evaluation. local organisations in Africa and Asia to help On day one of the …
Publication, 01 January 1999
Cover for G01548.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 11 Community participation in the sustainable development of human settlements in Mexico City
… in Mexico City Gustavo Romero, Patricia Nava and Lilia Palacios Introduction building. The Settlers Union of San Miguel Teotongo has … a Community organisations in low-income urban Neighbourhood1 Plan for local development areas of Mexico have been working with non- and …
Publication, 01 January 1994
Cover for G01549.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 12 Community participation and empowerment: putting theory into practice
… into practice David Wilcox · Acting together: not only do different Introduction interests decide together on what is best, they form a … community to Effective Participation1, which offers a interests: local groups or organisations are comprehensive framework for thinking …
Publication, 01 January 1994
Workers build up the banks of the Teesta River in Bangladesh. Bangladesh already spends six per cent of its annual budget on climate change adaptation (Photo: International Rivers, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Musings from a first timer at a CBA conference
Insight, 30 April 2015
Cover for G01694.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 1 Analysing communication in participatory appraisal
… communication in participatory appraisal K. Linzer and R. Kowalski Introduction functions of DTT is to feedback technical constraints in … to improve the quality of communication a formal way by `sondeos' (a local version of between participants of the regional RRA), and more …
Publication, 01 January 1997
Street scene, Karachi, Pakistan. Photo by Fareena Chanda
Can we change the goals of development without changing the implementers?
… the universal provision of all the services noted above depends on local governments and on the extent and quality of their relationships … organisations and federations to press for change and to work with local governments.  Here we find lots of innovation from the growing … citizens’ lifestyles. Climate change gets a strong emphasis in the introduction but the text is very weak - where are the so-much-needed …
Insight, 09 July 2014
Top publications of 2018
IIED's best of 2018: publications
… in exclusion and results in frequent mismatches between policy and local realities. This research report focuses on citizen-generated … Sustainable Diets for All programme coordinated by IIED, Hivos and local partners to help low-income communities in Bolivia, Indonesia, … protocols for EbA in each target ecosystem. It also includes an introduction to EbA which is intended for a broader audience, including …
Article, 21 December 2018
Three generations of Syrian refugees queuing at a registration point on the Syria/Lebanon border. The United Nations says 4.8 million people have fled the conflict in Syria (Photo: UNHCR/ M. Hofer, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Critical theme: Conflict, climate and migration in Syria – did the media get it right?
… Randall said that in Syria there was little evidence of migrants and local residents fighting over resources. He said: "I don't think really … not be migration en masse: people would move to find work as their local livelihoods were eroded, and before they had reached absolute … can be viewed above and on IIED's YouTube channel . Norton's introduction to the event is also available to listen to below Andrew …
Event, 03 October 2016