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A woman bends over to tend to rows and rows of small trees being grown
Unlocking public climate finance for sustainable business transformation in Africa
Project, 01 September 2021
50 years
IIED at 50: protecting people and planet for half a century
… alone: we wish to thank all those who have been instrumental in our journey: partners, donors, supporters and challengers. A series of … Making sustainable development a reality – movements that inspire change As part of the birthday celebrations, episode 17 of our Make …   Together, we have been part of some notable victories . But our focus is now on the world’s most urgent challenges, from climate change …
Article, 08 June 2021
Liz Carlile holding a microphone
Liz Carlile: thank you and goodbye!
… would not have been the ideas, the research, the constant pursuit of our partners’ voices and perspectives, the scrutiny and challenge of how we position ourselves alongside others among our global family. Collaboration has been vital This dedication to our … research into social learning and the way it could enhance climate change communications. Experience working with multilateral agencies and …
Insight, 29 June 2022
Workers at the Dakete Gold Mine explain health and safety procedures in a powdering station. The IIED dialogue aimed to engage key stakeholders, including mineworkers, in a conversation about the future of ASM mining in Ghana (Photo: Friends of the Nation)
ASM dialogue creates ambition for change in Ghana
… challenge perspectives, and facilitate collaboration to affect change in policy and practice. It followed an earlier visioning workshop … before participants boarded the plane. As we queued for check-in for our internal flight to Takoradi, old and new colleagues (re)connected, … understand their livelihoods and daily challenges, and also held focus group discussions with other community members. We heard how …
Insight, 15 September 2016
Pakistan's Sarhad Rural Support programme deals with constant uncertainty and disruptive events. Here goods are delivered to flood victims in Chitral (Photo: Gul Hamaad Farooqui, Creative Commons via Flickr)
What can Southern NGOs teach us about disruptive change?
… been replaced by a challenging new agenda ; global action on climate change has high ambitions set by the Paris Agreement , while the impacts … part of the picture. We've put their perspectives at the heart of our investigation, with a series of 23 interviews with Southern NGO … To ensure innovation and resilience in the future, they have to focus on disruption in the present, and this needs to be recognised in …
Insight, 26 January 2016
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Strengthening capacity for advocacy in food systems of the poor
… of capacity strengthening used in advocacy programmes tends to focus on strengthening skills and knowledge, whereas agency is about … focuses on capacity strengthening and agency in its aim to foster change within local and national food systems. Spanning Bolivia, Indonesia, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia, our experiences from SD4All highlight the dilemmas and tensions that …
Publication, 08 December 2020
A woman stands to the side of a barren area through which small shoots of a mangrove forest can be seen
Community solutions for a nature-based, resilient future beyond COVID-19
… Beyond COVID-19: grassroots visions of change This article is part of an IIED series that brings together … specific themes in reaction to the coronavirus pandemic, drawing on our partners’ insights and providing a platform for voices from the … .  The COVID-19 pandemic reminds us that we can no longer afford to focus on designing systems and solutions that only provide short-term …
Article, 07 October 2020
A group meeting on climate change on boat run by the organisation Shidhulai in Natore, Bangladesh (Photo: Tony Stonehouse/IIED)
Developing nations strengthen ability to demonstrate effective climate change adaptation
News, 27 February 2015
CCAFS, together with partners, is trying to develop new ways to communicate climate change adaptation. Photo: N. Palmer (CIAT)
New ways to communicate climate change and adaptation - is it time for something “loopy”?
… stimulate a new discussion in the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and the development of … action. This in turn informs a new way of proceeding or of organising our systems based on that new experience and reflection, and, done well, … like climate change and food security. This approach was the focus of a discussion paper by IDS, IIED and the University of York …
Insight, 19 October 2012
Two women carry buckets with fruits on their heads.
Street vendors and garbage pickers need protection from climate extremes
Insight, 05 October 2021