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This farmer in India's Maharashtra state gets weather alerts, advisories about pests and market information via his mobile phone (Photo: Borlaug Institute for South Asia, Creative Commons via Flickr)
CBA13: unlocking the power of technology to build climate resilience
… international conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA13) taking place on 1-4 April 2019 in Ethiopia. Under this … of such technologies they need to be recognised as adaptation and the focus of climate, as well as development, policy. This can include … climate resilient future by 2050.  We will also plan for ways to feed our ideas, experience and learning into the various processes and bodies …
Article, 27 February 2019
Crowdsourcing evidence – such as from these food vendors in Fort Portal, Uganda – is vital to foster citizens agency. But you must engage and listen (Photo: Sven Torfinn/Panos Pictures)
Encouraging dialogue and dissent
… forces" and "constructive criticism". I like the title's focus on dialogue and dissent. Dissent implies a confidence, a collective responsibility, an energy that can make change happen and we need that. We need to do things differently and we … development solutions. IIED has citizen agency in its DNA – from our early adoption and promotion of participation research methods …
Insight, 15 March 2016
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PLA 59: Change at hand: Web 2.0 for development
… in French (en Français) Contents Editorial  Part I: Overview Change at hand: Web 2.0 for development  Holly Ashley, Jon Corbett, Ben … you find these short introductions useful and welcome feedback from our readers. i. Blogging: Tips on how to create and maintain a dynamic … PLA 59: Change at hand: Web 2.0 for development …
Article, 31 May 2009
Our annual report highlights pathways to change (Photo: Olivier Girard/CIFOR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED Annual Report 2017/18
… pathways' – unique ways of working that help IIED to deliver lasting change. Our  annual report for 2017/18  looks at how IIED uses these four impact … dialogues connect marginalised people with key decision makers. Our expert facilitation delivers co-created and locally rooted evidence …
Page, 24 October 2018
A snow leopard prowling on some rocks
Q&A: answering your questions on community-based approaches to tackling poaching and illegal wildlife trade
… Do check out the methodology and tool, and keep an eye out for our soon-to-be-launched FLoD training modules, available on the FLoD … and this is a challenge: to achieve outcomes (such as behaviour change) and impacts (such as changes in the state of species in trade or … on the PeopleNotPoaching database , and we’ve specifically sought to focus on lessons learned about why initiatives do – or don’t – work.   …
Article, 09 April 2020
A street in the city of Puri in the state of Odisha
COVID-19, JAGA Mission and the value of already existing solutions
… COVID-19. The health and economic impact of the pandemic demands our attention and commitment to work together to overcome it. We are … pandemic is quite the portrait of Dorian Gray revealed – in it, our cities and their makers can now catch a clear glimpse of the hideous … already putting that commitment into practice: its JAGA Mission , the focus of this blog, aims to grant land rights to slum dwellers in the …
Insight, 04 June 2020
A farmer in southern Mozambique carries greens back to his family from a project that has been backed by the Climate Investment Fund, which is working with the African Development Bank on a pilot program for climate resilience (Photo: CIF Action, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Climate finance for sustainable development: regional forum
… event for establishing a new international agreement for climate change. Organised with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) , … for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) -hosted sessions will focus on the specific elements of climate finance that can benefit the … investments and help achieve the ambition of the SDGs. Some of our case studies will illustrate how using appropriate sources of …
Insight, 28 August 2015
A resettlement site in Guiuan, in the Philippines, almost three years after super typhoon Haiyan with 'temporary' shelters that have been adapted by residents (Photo: Elizabeth Parker)
Post-crisis urban planning: lessons from Southeast Asia
… support for urban planning processes is an important area of focus . However, there is limited research to provide guidance on how this can be done well. Humanitarians can help, but how? Our research project, funded through IIED's Urban Crises Learning Fund , … consultant whose research focuses on humanitarian response, climate change and urban development. The research referenced above is also …
Insight, 06 December 2017
Campaigners celebrate the UK becoming the first G7 country to enshrine in law the UN-agreed target of spending 0.7 per cent of GDP on oversea aid (Photo: UNA-UK via Google licence)
Cameron can assure a lasting legacy
Insight, 07 June 2015
Three generations of Syrian refugees queuing at a registration point on the Syria/Lebanon border. The United Nations says 4.8 million people have fled the conflict in Syria (Photo: UNHCR/ M. Hofer, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Critical theme: Conflict, climate and migration in Syria – did the media get it right?
…   Our October Critical Theme seminar was about how the media have been reporting on the connections between migration, climate change and the conflict in Syria. Our keynote speaker was Alex Randall, programme manager at the Climate … Climate change …
Event, 03 October 2016