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Cover image from EITI and sustainable development: Lessons and new challenges for the Caspian region
Study shows how to improve Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
… and stronger institutions. Only this way can we achieve real societal change, such as reducing corruption and poverty," says co-author, Kazakhstani researcher, Saule Ospanova. "Our research in the region is relevant globally as it identifies several …
News, 14 March 2013
Althelia Ecosphere's Simon Dent speaking at Fish Night 2 (Photo: Inta Photography)
Fish Night 2 looks at finance for sustainable fisheries
… including overfishing, habitat degradation, pollution and climate change. There is urgent need to reverse this trend and transition to a … invests in projects that reduce deforestation, mitigate climate change, protect biodiversity and provide a sustainable living to rural … and bring it to what we call sea-scapes. We believe that we can take our investment rationale and apply it to a sustainable sea-scape …
Event, 04 March 2015
Small producers in the global market
… take informed decisions and to act on them. This requires challenging our own ideas, conventional wisdom, assumptions and actions from both …
Insight, 28 March 2010
People point to a computer screen.
ELLA - sharing Evidence and Lessons from Latin America
… think tank, works with ELLA on governance themes. And on climate change, it’s the Rio de Janeiro-based arm of SouthSouthNorth ). The … alliances, on extractive industries, citizen oversight, and climate change adaptation in semi-arid and arid regions, have just completed … be available to download for free from the ELLA website —  but read our knowledge materials on climate change in rural areas that have been …
Insight, 12 November 2012
IIED produced an animation to raise awareness of the SDGs and the potential of the new development agenda (Image: IIED/Hands Up)
Global goals for sustainable development
… final text of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Transforming our world , was released on 11 August, marking the completion of a … agreements such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). What makes the SDGs different is that there are also …
Insight, 02 September 2015
Cebu, Phillipines
6th World Urban Forum: will the agenda of slum and shack dwellers ever get considered?
… associations and international funding agencies and foundations. Focus on local governments One innovation that UN Habitat has pioneered … they face in getting these addressed, and how often these differ from our assumptions about their needs. The Mayor of Iloilo ensures that … get represented by professional groups or NGOs.  This has to change.  As Adnan Aliani from UN ESCAP commented at the World Urban …
Insight, 07 September 2012
The Mercato in Addis Ababa is Africa's largest market. This month there was another major gathering in Addis Ababa as thousands of politicians, policymakers and civil society leaders came together for the third Financing for Development summit (Photo: alvise forcellini, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Why universality is a taxing agenda…
…   Two side events stood out for me because of their practical focus on how developing countries can strengthen their public revenue … – particularly on climate finance. The damage which climate change will cause to poor people's livelihoods, particularly in the … news is that if we fail on climate finance there, it will threaten our chances to get the ambitious global climate deal we need. Andrew …
Insight, 20 July 2015
Turn REDD on its head
… communities about their forests and then continued to debate and plan our future work in the small town of Namaacha. We agreed that if you set … teams have experienced fast-developing national REDD strategies that focus on how to count and monitor carbon rather than how to bring about … asking the critical questions, exploring the answers. We will focus on learning among practitioners, across countries and sites, and …
Insight, 14 December 2010
Relocated street vendors operate in the car park below the alun-alun of the Masjid Raya Mosque in Bandung, but this basement area does not attract many customers and vendors have to breathe in car and motorcycle fumes due to the poor air circulation (Photo: Kemal Jufri/Panos Pictures)
Building trust through dialogue with street-food vendors
… is widespread. "There is no real recognition of street vendors [and our needs] from the government," said Mujahidin Saleh, head of a …
Insight, 05 November 2015
Just how inclusive is ‘inclusive business’?
… of inclusive business. For a start, it has a strong business focus. “It’s not philanthropy or self-promotion,” said Mendez . It is … exerting claims. “Empowerment means being better able to negotiate our products and have a better position in the market,” agreed Merlin … and policy at Santa Clara University, asked whether the new donor focus on inclusive business was in fact “subsidising inequality”. Other …
Article, 27 June 2011