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Emerging lessons from community-led COVID-19 responses in urban areas
… specific themes in reaction to the coronavirus pandemic, drawing on our partners’ insights and providing a platform for voices from the …
Article, 25 June 2020
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Protecting community rights over traditional knowledge: implications of customary laws and practices (key findings and recommendations, 2005-2009)
… Kenya, Panama, China and India. Follow the links below for more about our work on Biocultural heritage. …
Publication, 01 November 2009
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Delivery models for decentralised rural electrification: case studies in Nepal, Peru and Kenya
… electrification projects in developing countries. Find out more about our work on improving people's access to sustainable energy. …
Publication, 01 June 2012
Disasters, such as this flooding in Old Bagamoyo Road, Mikocheni, Dar es Salaam, were the subject of discussion in Sendai (Photo: Matthew Wood-Hill, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Keep it simple: helping local governments reduce the risk from the next disaster
… civil society groups to help them think about disaster risks in their work. Sharpening our tools One of the tools that the UNISDR campaign uses is the … in line with the priorities of the Hyogo Framework for Action. Our aim was to update them to become more operational.  We have managed …
Insight, 25 March 2015
Site discussions to integrate biodiversity into mine planning and operations (Photo: SANBI)
Mining for common ground: putting biodiversity on South African mining companies' agendas
… for the world, producing metals ranging from platinum required for our catalytic converters and chemotherapy drugs, to kyanite for bricks and mortar, rutile used to protect our skin from ultra-violet (UV) light, and coal. The mining industry …
Article, 21 March 2016
A father and son record measurements from a rain gauge on their farm in Western Uganda. Changes in rainfall patterns could significantly impact rural populations (Photo: J. Recha/CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: We need long term actions on climate change
Article, 24 November 2015
A Subanen harvest dance during a colourful street dancing competition of Kinabayo Festival. Community action by the Subanen tribe in Midsalip prevents mining companies from encroaching their land (Photo: Mark Navales/Google Licence)
Citizen power: Sustaining paralegal programmes to put knowledge back into communities' hands
… keep going financially and to scale up to help other communities. So our webinar, run by our legal tools for citizen empowerment programme , discussed what works … simpler process than court proceedings. In both contexts, paralegals work closely with lawyers.  Strategies for sustainability Local and …
Insight, 14 October 2014
Cattle herds settle on village fields.
The Sahelian Great Green Wall: start with local solutions
Insight, 04 February 2021
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 15 REFLECT in Oxford, England
… A relationships with educators from other countries. This develops our own wide variety of educational opportunities are understanding of … countries. preserve the status quo, either consciously or ODEC's work with REFLECT as a consequence of long established hierarchical … Oxford face many challenges because they live in a Community Centre. Our aim is to make the white-dominated city. The Learning from Life …
Publication, 01 January 1998
Kazakhstan's capital Astana will host the EXPO trade fair in 2017. Credit: Ken & Nyetta/Flicker (Creative Commons)
Kazakhstan: Green economy of the future?
… long-term investments and a range of other enabling conditions. Our report is an effort to ask difficult questions and start discussing … potential pathways and available options. It draws on earlier work in IIED's Caspian Energy Initiative as well as a green economy … IIED and the Kazakhstan Ministry of Environment organised in 2011. Our recommendations Focus the green economy policy concept on specific …
Insight, 30 January 2014