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Top publications of 2018
IIED's best of 2018: publications
… and of urban actors facing humanitarian crises. 10 Ecosystem-based adaptation: a handbook for EbA in mountain, dryland and coastal … provides practical guidance for planning and implementing community-led ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) in three vulnerable ecosystems: mountains, drylands and …
Article, 21 December 2018
A busy side street in the settlement of Dharavi
Invisiblising cities: the obsession with national statistics and international comparisons
… organisations are turning to other sources including community-led mapping of informal settlements.  The next blog in this series will …
Insight, 25 February 2020
Information and communications technologies for sustainable development
… for development often fail because they are designed as technology-led service provision rather than development-led, people-centred initiatives. ICTs are key strategic tools for …
Project, 30 July 2008
Residents of Sitio San Roque, Philippines, watch a demolition team tear down their houses during an eviction (Photo: Alamy)
Briefing: Will Habitat III produce an effective "new urban agenda?"
… decades of experience working on urban issues. During the 1990s he led the urban environment programme at the Stockholm Environment … London. He was a co-ordinating lead author of the chapter on urban adaptation in the Fifth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on … on a book on how cities can combine development and climate change adaptation and mitigation. David Dodman , director, Human Settlements …
Event, 05 May 2016
Delegates at the 4th Session of the Ministerial Monitoring Committee of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in West Africa (Photo: GWI West Africa)
ECOWAS water ministers agree to build fairer dams
… states, basin organisations and civil society that began in 2009, led by the ECOWAS Water Resources Coordination Unit, with the support of …
News, 16 December 2015
Home workers making bouquets (Photo: Siddharth Agarwal/UHRC)
Addressing risks facing informal workers
Project, 01 October 2018
Policy-makers discussing, reflecting, learning and building skills and capacities for climate adaptation at village-level. All key social learning activities. (Photo: E. van de Grift)
Social learning event features case studies from around the world
Insight, 04 August 2014
Market Analysis and Development training course participants (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Bolivia's indigenous peoples drive forest farm innovation to benefit Mother Earth
… three new climate change mechanisms covering: Joint mitigation and adaptation (MCMA Non-forest mitigation (for example in energy and … buyer, and that buyer failed to pay – the lack of operational capital led to demoralisation within the business and almost complete … is working through the FFF to capture in a compendium examples of locally controlled forestry business models that can be used to inform …
Insight, 25 November 2014
Annual report 2009/10
… to pay for the present. Featured project highlights Climate change Adaptation after Copenhagen:  in the Least Developed Countries, … big impacts on policy. The poverty-conservation link:  at an IIED-led conference on the links between conservation and poverty … state of the field and highlighted some unexpected findings. Farmer-led food research:  IIED was working to upend the current system of …
Page, 21 October 2010
IIED's Andrew Norton and IIED chair Rebeca Grynspan with Gro Harlem Brundtland sit at the front of the Barbara Ward lecture on 19 June 2018
Come on board: IIED seeks new chair
… analysis of the changing context of our work, our current chair led the board to push us to be focused, clear, ambitious and confident …
Insight, 10 May 2019