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Partnership and participation are central to IIED's work: this exchange visit organised with our partners in Nepal allowed community foresters to share their experiences with civil society activists from the Lao PDR. (Photo: IIED)
How does IIED seek to make a difference?
… the partner organisations and networks with which we collaborate in our efforts to deliver on our mission "to build a fairer, more … independent review of IIED's work has brought these reflections into focus. The reviewers emphasise that the organisation's particular … classic route of most policy think tanks that seek to affect policy change by studying policy options and providing expert advice to …
Insight, 24 April 2017
Dancing at the Dia de Los Muertos festival, which incessant rainfall spoiled in Mexico this year (Photo: Richard Cawood)
Winning entry of 'My Story' competition says extreme weather affects Mexican festivals
Insight, 06 December 2014
A partially obstructed drain in Gangtok city, Sikkim (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
Fieldnotes from two cities in India: learning about social learning and climate uncertainty
Insight, 21 July 2016
Cover for 10857IIED.pdf
Learning from community planning following the 2010 Haiti earthquake
… made them available through a digital archive linked to this paper. Our intention is that this archive should be useful both in Haiti and …
Publication, 01 January 2020
Covers of best publications 2021.
IIED's best of 2021: publications
… Read our 10 most read blogs of 2021 Read a blog about our top 10 videos of … jobs, food security and empowerment as well as resilience to climate change.   Overall, we found a wealth of evidence that investments in … for low-income residents. Yet policymakers have had only a limited focus on the pandemic’s urban dimensions.  Holistic interventions will …
Article, 17 December 2021
Protesters with a banner
IIED's best of 2019: blogs
… are reached, Chinese businesses – the key driver of land use change in Africa – could also bring major innovations for sustainable … with business and investors to deliver positive change. As part of our new strategy we’re scaling up our work with businesses (of all sizes) and communities to identify how …
Article, 27 December 2019
A man on the phone outside a small orange hut. A nearby sign advertises prices for mobile phone air-time.
How the digital divide threatens the success and legitimacy of the COP26 talks
Insight, 08 October 2021
View of Kunming, China, of a lake and houses in the background
Learning from Paris: what would ‘Kunming-compliant’ look like for development cooperation agencies?
… three should be deployed to achieve the necessary transformational change. What would a similar approach to the emerging post-2020 global … and local communities. Paris-aligned or Kunming-compliant should not focus only on ’net zero’ or ’nature-positive’ but on achieving these … planet and prosperity. Watch this space as we continue to develop our thinking on what Kunming-compliant might mean in practice as the GBF …
Insight, 25 February 2021
Camilla Toulmin has led IIED since 2004
Camilla Toulmin to step down in 2015
… organisation, on the forefront of the big issues that matter for our shared world, but happy because I feel the time is right for me to … that I love – research and writing – particularly on land and climate change issues, and a focus on the drylands .   Our new chair of the board of trustees , …
Insight, 29 October 2014
Three farmers plan their crops on a steep hillside
Thorny issues: achieving a fair and equitable Global Goal on Adaptation
Insight, 25 January 2021