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Boat surrounded by vegetation growing in the water near the river port of Vallemi.
Will Payments for Watershed Services fuel the protection of ecosystem services?
… of PWS is extremely difficult. Going beyond simple remedies At IIED we have been following the waves behind PWS in developing countries … (e.g.  “ more trees, more water ”).  In a recent paper , we discuss how monitoring and evaluation is used in PWS to help achieve environmental success along with lessons accumulated since our first review in 2002 . In practice, monitoring PWS tends to fall in …
Insight, 21 June 2013
CBA13 networking: IIED senior fellow and director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) Saleemul Huq in conversation with Susan Nanduddu, director of the Uganda-based African Centre for Trade and Development
CBA13: event highlights
Article, 04 April 2019
An interactive data visual that illustrates the scale and speed of urban transformation that research by IIED has sought to document and describe
IIED's best of 2014: multimedia
… For our research to have the greatest impact possible, and  to engage and appeal to our audiences,  sometimes we need to use innovative methods of communication. I n the last year … to include those with 500,000, the data visual enabled users to see how and where cities have grown since 1800, as well as giving …
Insight, 12 January 2015
Camp site with several informal tents made of fabric and plastic.
Are humanitarian agencies starting from scratch again in Haiti?
Insight, 24 October 2021
IIED's Communications Learning Week participants (Photo: Anne Schulthess/IIED)
More haste less speed? Taking time to learn
… talk about training sessions, all of which has led me to reflect on how people learn. Of course, thinking about how people learn is a … left to themselves. This is the kind of approach we tried to take in our work with the World Bank on the WAVES programme .  Day 2 of @iied … All the more reason to build regular activities into a communications strategy to reinforce original learning, adding new content when you …
Insight, 07 August 2018
The Forest Investment Program, an example of an investment fund with simplified funding frameworks, has invested $10 million in a $24 million project with the African Development Bank to restore Ghana's rapidly degrading forests (Photo: Greg Neate, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Six steps to local climate finance
… into force on 4 November 2016. Now comes the implementation phase. We may have got here sooner than expected but now that we are here, we … of climate finance, including international funds, to deliver on our promises.  But if such funds are to address the vulnerabilities of … answer is probably not.  Barriers and blockades Nobody knows exactly how much climate finance reaches local people. Calculating a precise …
Insight, 06 November 2016
IIED's Susannah Fisher and David Dodman (top, centre) talk to stakeholders on a social learning project in Kenya (Photo: IIED)
Using learning partnerships to support change
… for specific communities of practice, and by undertaking research on how joint learning processes can contribute towards positive development outcomes. Our approach Our approach to learning partnerships involves a set of key … Aid will use evidence collation, shared learning and country mission strategy development. IIED is providing technical support to enable this …
Article, 24 April 2017
Chen showing Lila Buckley his innovative method for growing potatoes in straw nests.
A Chinese farm in Africa
… they do lose money, we subsidize them for the loss. Usually though, our methods enable them to increase their revenue from the start.” Chen … really matter who I'm helping.” But what does matter for Chen is how empowered he is to do that helping. And in China he feels there are … from his previous work, and returns this time with a long-term strategy. “The team is all very specialized with extensive domestic …
Insight, 13 September 2012
Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Development project updates
Mainstreaming biodiversity and development project updates
… activities, develop guidance together for other countries and discuss how mainstreaming work can be scaled up successfully. July 2016 Reports … in promoting biodiversity within Malawi’s Growth and Development Strategy.  Lilongwe City is developing a new project with ICLEI to … Davies It is with great sadness that we have learnt of the death of our colleague, Jonathan W. Davies.   A senior staff member of Liberia's …
Article, 21 March 2014
Statements and workshop reports
Mainstreaming biodiversity and development initiative: events
…  supported African countries to use their national biodiversity and strategy action plans (NBSAPs) as a vehicle for integrating biodiversity … 2012 and 2017 IIED and partners delivered a series of workshops on how governments could link their NBSAPS with other development planning. … Davies It is with great sadness that we have learnt of the death of our colleague, Jonathan W. Davies. A senior staff member of Liberia's …
Article, 09 July 2013