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Ambition to achieve gender balance at international climate negotiations must be matched with finance
… to gender equality as the principal objective. Less than 3% of adaptation funds for LDCs is allocated to supporting gender equality in … expand climate-resilient income-generating activities Funding women-led climate adaptation projects such as climate-smart agriculture Investing in …
Insight, 10 October 2023
The Nor Yauyos-Cochas Landscape Reserve in the Andean highlands, Peru (Photo: Karen Podvin)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Peru
… Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) involves people using biodiversity and ecosystem … a project called ' Ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation: strengthening the evidence and informing policy ' (EbA … course  (in Spanish), which took place from 3 June to 5 July, and was led by IUCN and TMI. Three representatives from the Peruvian Ministry of …
Project, 04 September 2018
Least developed countries get less than 3% of money needed to transform to face climate change
… that between 2014 and 2018, just US$5.9 billion of primary climate adaptation finance reached these countries, a huge shortfall on the … be inadequate. The $5.9 billion figure only includes programmes where adaptation was the primary objective of the funding. It represents less … decisions, the research found little evidence of initiatives being led by local communities. Countries in the developed world made a pledge …
News, 14 July 2021
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Mainstreaming climate change adaptation in drylands development planning in Tanzania
… that will test approaches and mechanisms to mainstream climate change adaptation into their development planning. This preparatory phase, … and relevance of both traditional and formal (government-led) planning processes for climate change adaptation as these two processes need to complement each other in order …
Publication, 01 January 2013
Screenshots from four of IIED's best videos
IIED's best of 2021: videos
… global urban change, and followed an article that described community-led COVID-19 responses in the Philippines that was one of IIED’s most … governance as much as infrastructure and availability. 9 Scaling up locally-led adaptation [VIDEO::https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZmymLhbk20] With …
Insight, 28 December 2021
People walking on agricultural land
Envisioning a better future for The Gambia
… Country (LDC) Group 2050 Vision and offer – aimed to integrate adaptation, mitigation and resilience into national objectives to build … as a frontrunner country for the LDC Initiative for Effective Adaptation and Resilience (LIFE-AR) , shifting away from … Business unusual: LDC-led climate action …
Insight, 19 July 2021
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COP27: vital but at-risk IPLC landscapes urgently need more climate finance
… way in Egypt, low-income countries are rightly demanding finance for adaptation and loss and damage. But how much of this finance is likely … finance Demand is growing for more finance to directly support locally led adaptation . In particular, much more finance is now urgently needed …
Insight, 08 November 2022
Four images of people from IIED's 2021 'super year' video, including a fisher hauling nets
IIED and the ‘super year’
Article, 02 February 2021
Fisheries account for 12 per cent of The Gambia's GDP. The country's Atlantic coastline and the mangroves along the River Gambia estuary are vulnerable to climate change (Photo: Javier D. Creative Commons via Flickr)
GCF funding boosts ecosystem-based adaptation in The Gambia
… events. Since 2013, the government has been taking an ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) approach, promoting small-scale projects that maintain … international climate finance The success of these initiatives has led to new opportunities to access international climate finance. The … Ahead of the 11th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation , IIED is profiling national approaches to climate-resilient …
Insight, 22 June 2017
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IIED joins forces with the Risk-informed Early Action Partnership
… Localisation in disaster response, by promoting the principles for locally-led adaptation , and   Understanding how humanitarian actors can respond …
News, 21 July 2021