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Q&A: helping communities protect their land rights
… RK: There are three separate ’moments’ when communities can actively work to strengthen their tenure security and protect their rights in the … the community does decide to lease its land to an investor, it should work with legal advocates to negotiate a formal contract – enforceable … wheel in their own context, as advocates rarely have time to share our strategies in the detail necessary to replicate them. This was …
Article, 27 January 2020
Group of seated women looking in the same direction
‘Building back better’ means ‘building back fairer’ after COVID-19
… and stronger bargaining power, enabling them to demand policies that work for them.  2. Data and information strengthen advocacy and … brought us back to basics. Health, food, childcare and schooling are our biggest concerns. We’re reminded of the frontline workers who …
Insight, 31 July 2020
Four women farmers bend over to work their land
Climate justice and the IPCC special report on land
Insight, 13 August 2019
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Southwest Uganda (Photo: Mariel Harrison)Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in southwest Uganda (Photo: Mariel Harrison)
Taking a more rigorous approach to evaluation
… insights into what works and what doesn't, but in some areas of work such as policy influence, getting clear evidence can be hard. … and learning for several external stakeholders. In the Uganda case, our confidence was not very high for some components of the claim … to taxpayers and learning for several external stakeholders. Our findings need to be able to withstand challenges and 'attacks' from …
Article, 18 May 2017
Women smallholders replanting rice in the irrigated area around the Bagré dam in Burkina Faso (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)
Water and land rights – hand-in-hand for sustainable development
… climate agreement . This year's theme fitted particularly well with our GWI work in West Africa on how to make large water infrastructure – … poverty eradication', which focused on water and land rights. One of our main messages based on lessons learnt was that if governments want …
Insight, 25 September 2015
Members of the Learning and Leadership Group, Georgette Sakyi-Addo and Collins Oppong, observe artisanal and small-scale miners in Tarkwa, Ghana (Photo: Gabriela Flores)
Leaders join forces for productive and equitable artisanal and small-scale mining in Ghana
… Miners (GNASSM) . "We need to make the effort as miners to work responsibly so we can improve our image. We must not ignore the role of women as part of this process." …
News, 28 January 2016
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Virtual conferences: not in the future, but now
… by asking questions or leaving comments is an important part of that work.   This year at CBA7 the web team at IIED used a number of … the IIED website. And we embedded the live blogging technology onto our website to ensure that we generated traffic on our site. All the content posted by participants ‘pulled through’ onto a …
Insight, 03 May 2013
Knowledge gained from interviews carried out in Kenya by Chinese journalists will be presented to a meeting in Beijing (Photo: Angelo DeSantis via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Chinese journalists study growing links between China and Africa
… other countries. The meeting has been organised by Yi De Vision and Our History Magazine, a Chinese publication focusing on international …
News, 18 March 2014
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 … between migration, climate change and the conflict in Syria. Our keynote speaker was Alex Randall, programme manager at the Climate … It would not be migration en masse: people would move to find work as their local livelihoods were eroded, and before they had reached …
Event, 03 October 2016
Captain Benjamin Kalimutima Lulimba finds the skull of an elephant recently killed by poachers who ripped out its tusks. Province Orientale, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Photo: Matchbox Media Collective)
How best to deal with wildlife crime while protecting the poor?
… Government's Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund , the project will work at two sites in Uganda – Murchison Falls National Park and Queen … efforts more appropriately and better support local livelihoods.   Our hypothesis? Long-term solutions to illegal wildlife trade require … who hold the long term survival of species in their hands.  Although our project focuses on Uganda, we expect to generate policy lessons that …
Insight, 01 August 2014