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Maria Lourdes Alvarez is a warden monitoring fishing activity at Decalve Marine Sanctuary, a Marine Protected Area in the Calamianes Islands in the Philippines (Photo: Asuncion Sia/USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Gender and biodiversity conservation – progress and future directions
… internal network of IIED Gender Equality Champions  has been leading our gender ambition, helping staff to think about how we can become … the past 15 years to achieving gender equality and equity and whether change was genuine or theoretical. Consultant Andrea Quesada, formerly … about women or gender? There is a tendency for conservation NGOs to focus solely on women rather than gender. It is necessary to have …
Insight, 29 November 2018
A USAID programme training workers to install solar panels at health clinics in Rwanda. Rwanda is an early adopter of low-carbon climate resilient development (Photo: Walt Ratterman, Sunepi, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The political economy of financing climate resilient development
… – to support this transition to low-carbon resilient development.  Our research on LCRD uses an analytical approach known as political … policies in developing countries. In the second year of the programme our research is building on this evidence, to focus on the financing of low carbon resilient development policies and …
Article, 10 July 2015
Local community-based funds can help farmers in climate-sensitive areas to diversify. Mercyline Atieno got a loan for her poultry business in Kenya (Photo: T.Muchaba/CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Now is the time to ensure GCF finance reaches the local level
… by a developing country (Namibia) has been approved. Yet we know from our research at IIED  that the most effective climate finance is often … Sadly, the nine proposals on the table this week don't look set to change this trend. Most worrying is the fact that only one is from a … harnessing international and domestic finance for local investment. Our  Reflect & Act document summarises the issues and sets out five …
Insight, 03 April 2017
Debra Roberts will become the latest 'outstanding woman in development' to deliver the Barbara Ward Lecture
Champion of urban climate action to deliver IIED's 2016 Barbara Ward Lecture
… author of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report . She is also currently co-chair … session.IIED has been engaging with urban issues since the 1970s. Our  Human Settlements research group  works on urban environmental … at all levels – from grassroots partnerships to global summits. Our  Urban Matters blog  focuses on urban poverty, climate change in …
News, 19 July 2016
Two men on the side of a mountain; one bends over to pick up two sacks, the other carries them on his shoulders
Promoting better policy and citizen agency in the mining sector
… scrutiny of business as usual, people are mobilising for serious change in the mining sector. What is IIED doing?  Supporting civil … the design and implementation of the new mining law – with a focus on artisanal mining, taxation of large-scale mining and governance … with universities, civil society organisations and governments under our ‘ALIGN: Advancing Land-based Investment Governance’ project . …
Project, 22 December 2021
Women from around Lake Mburo National Park participate in a focus group discussion as part of a multi-stakeholder governance assessment (Photo: Francesca Booker/ IIED)
Understanding governance and equity in conservation
… been apprehensive − this became one of the most active and engaged focus groups we’d met. In fact, our experience from discussions with people around Uganda’s Lake Mburo … of conservation actions .  How do you assess governance?  In our new video, we take you through the governance assessment process …
Insight, 27 April 2018
A word cloud with words relevant to monitoring, evaluation and learning (Image: IIED)
Monitoring and evaluation, and impact evaluation methods
… set of skills and tools enables us to investigate transformational change in local-to-global systems. We are also considered a hub for South-South and South-North discourse thanks to our focus on systemic impact monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL).  …
Article, 01 March 2017
A shoal of fish
IIED launches new 'Insights' series linking business and sustainability
… ways that business and investors can contribute. Supporting positive change Laura Kelly , director of IIED’s Shaping Sustainable Markets … group , says IIED aims to support business to deliver positive change. She says: "The increase in interest in finance and business … and reach the poorest?" She says: "These Insights aim to draw on our experience of working with communities on issues from climate change …
News, 02 October 2019
Small-scale miners dry ores in the process of gold mining in Geita, Tanzania (Photo: John Louis/Investing In Gold, Creative Commons)
Dialogues for a sustainable and productive artisanal and small-scale mining sector
… participate, that the process is locally owned, and that discussions focus on solutions, our dialogues can help align this impoverished and vulnerable sector … agenda, and promoting multi-stakeholder collaboration for change in both policy and practice. Our dialogue approach (click on the …
Project, 24 January 2014
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On hanging together
… The ‘global’ problem of climate change is endlessly discussed, but rarely looked at cold. The crux of … but if we persist in using fossil fuels with current technologies, our prosperity will founder. The roadmap drawn up at the Bali climate … of the process, we will need a change of mind-set. Moving away from a focus on who is to blame and ~who should act first, we must gain a new …
Publication, 01 December 2007