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In the absence of electricity, students in Bangladesh are given charger lights so they can study at home (Photo: G.M.B. Akash/PANOS)
Ensuring an Energy Sustainable Development Goal delivers for poor people and the planet
… CAFOD and Practical Action and representing the combined voice of our three organisations, this post looks specifically at the energy for … development issue in the context of the SDGs and the recent OWG Focus Area Document. Energy is essential to all SDGs: actionable, … gender inequalities is therefore essential to promote transformative change. Concrete indicators on bringing gender budgeting into energy …
Insight, 25 March 2014
Men sitting on railway tracks with roosters. Sucat Railway Community, Manila, Philippines.
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
… equity, environment and power dimensions. IIED provides a particular focus on poverty reduction, water and sanitation, slum upgrading and … of civil society on key debates and high-level policy processes (see our series of three booklets on the MDGs for examples and further … also recognise the importance of creating a global partnership for change, as high-income nations must reform their domestic and …
Project, 30 April 2008
Green economics – surviving the trial
… doubts over the capacity of the existing economic system to serve our societies, while an ecological crisis grows quietly in the … can readily be interpreted more narrowly, often with a particular focus on carbon emission reductions. The potential conflict between … as history has shown they can often be the most powerful agents of change. Visit the Green Economy Coalition website to find out more …
Insight, 17 November 2011
A typical Kenya milk bar. Packaged milk in supermarkets has been found to be no better at meeting food safety standards than raw milk sold from kiosks (Photo: International Livestock Research Institute, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Lessons in informality from Kenya's dairy sector
… in a series on innovations in policy approaches to informality . Our research offers lessons for key stakeholders in the Kenyan context, … on milk safety practices that vendors actually had the power to change.  Initial results from the forthcoming IIED/ILRI study suggest … from the formal sector to ignore the informal sector, a failure to change policy at national level, poor awareness levels among traders and …
Insight, 03 November 2015
Slum-dwellers show that revolutions are not built in a day
… the making. They are led by some of the most disadvantaged people on our planet. Our new book, Reducing Urban Poverty in the Global South , reports on … to bring thousands onto the streets night after night to demand change, it is even harder to make progress stick. Faced with government …
Insight, 22 August 2013
This week in Myanmar, pictured, the Forest Farm Facility is funding a national exchange between forest and farm producer groups and many other producer groups (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Forest and Farm Facility: Getting resources to those who matter
… prosper, and to reduce their poverty on their own terms. They don't focus on just one aim, such as agricultural land use, or mitigating climate change, or producing timber or water etc, but in achieving all these … that a United Nations agency ought to be hosting.  The FFF merits our support in its attempt to get resources to those who matter. Duncan …
Insight, 24 March 2014
A photo of a woman.
Protecting Indigenous lands: lessons from Chile
… human rights violations in Chile and Latin America, with a particular focus on the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities. When … by national legislation in terms of evaluating the impacts of our projects.” Using investment chain mapping to amplify the power of … chain could be a pressure point, creating leverage for communities to change corporate behaviour. OC mapped Kinross’s investors, which include …
Article, 17 November 2020
A community sanitation facility in Jinja, Uganda (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
World Toilet Day: People need equality and dignity when they 'have to go'
… Adressing the problem of toilet access So what can be done? IIED and our long-term partner  Shack/Slum Dwellers' International  recently … at the neighbourhood and settlement levels is a promising path for change. Residents of informal settlements and other city dwellers have … bathroom.  Sharing knowledge about urban sanitation And we're doing our bit too, by connecting people working on urban sanitation and …
Insight, 18 November 2014
The Tanah Abang district of the Indonesian capital Jakarta has chronic traffic problems. Attempts to clear informal settlements and street vendors are frequently met with protests (Photo: Ikhlasul Amal, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Ten urban planning principles every humanitarian should know
… areas. This trend is changing the nature of humanitarian crises and our responses to them, and the international community needs to be … solutions that benefit all city users, while humanitarians rightly focus on the most vulnerable. Identifying the most vulnerable is not a …
Insight, 10 November 2015
Durban Beach, South Africa (Photo: Darren Glanville, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Investing in natural capital to deliver the SDGs and reduce poverty
… at the municipality of Durban explains: "This investment helps ensure our coast has clean water and stays attractive to tourists. Because of … Climate change …
Insight, 17 July 2017