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MMSD – bulletins
… Documents are grouped together in the links below, or you can search our Publications Library . Please contact us if you can't find what you …
Article, 04 March 2009
Women farmers in Dodel, in Northern Senegal, take a break by the water pump (Photo: Philippine Sutz/IIED)
Q&A: Getting women's land rights recognised
… as getting women's voices included in these decision-making bodies, our work is also about raising awareness among women that they can exercise …
Article, 19 March 2018
Sapphire pits to be rehabilitated in Anikilabo, shown during the site visit of the major of a local mining community, Ampasy Nahampoana (Photo: Andry Rabemanantsoa/GIZ PAGE Madagascar)
Dialogue and action in equal measure
… by the government as they revise the mining code.  In parallel, our programme has been piloting practical activities in several ASM …
Insight, 13 March 2017
Launch event of the China-Africa Forest Governance Platform in March 2013. Photo: Simon Lim
Just forest governance
… both groups do things better. The lessons we have learned from this work are proving useful in the work of The Forests Dialogue and in developing a forest governance … bring about change on the ground. Managing demand for forest products Our work also looks at how to better manage the demand for forest and …
Article, 07 September 2013
Seaweed farming in Nusa Lembongan, Bali, is an example of an alternative livelihood project (Photo: Yeowatzup via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Are "alternative livelihoods" projects effective?
… one. But as there is a lack of evidence as to whether these projects work, we are undertaking a systematic study of the evidence and we would … We want to cast a wide net and will consider all of these terms in our search. Could you help us? Do you think 'alternative … or [email protected] . Many thanks. We will share our results in a follow-up blog this summer. Mike Day is a consultant …
Insight, 04 February 2014
The interface between forests, agriculture and climate change: understanding the implications for REDD
… beyond the forestry sector and give attention to agriculture. See our related work on the economics of agriculture and cllimate change . See our related work on REDD in Vietnam . What IIED did The intiative aimed …
Project, 02 September 2010
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Pastoral Civil Society Quarterly Newsletter of RECONCILE/IIED Programme on Reinforcement of Pastoral Civil Society in East Africa Issue no 3 July - September 2003
… for the next one. We also present news on pastoral issues from our pastoral partners and from other sources relevant to the programme. Our profile this month is on KINNAPA- DP, a pastoral civil society … Africa. We also did Pastoralism in Kenya. These are the the final work on the programme leaflet, ... …
Publication, 01 September 2003
Mumbai's Dharavi settlement has a thriving informal economy. The government's redevelopment schemes have been hit by controversy and stalled for more than a decade (Photo: Jon Hurd, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The SDGs don't adequately spell out cities' role in implementation
… governments.  The concept of the common good and its importance for "our common home" – and for the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) … city government provides everything. Private companies built much of our infrastructure and public works, and services may be contracted out. …
Insight, 12 October 2015
Men filling plastic containers with water. Niger.
Clean drinking water is about people, not pipes
… a village for the first time is important, what of the hard, grinding work of keeping those taps flowing in perpetuity? The scale of this … issues, the Global Water Initiative asked what, ultimately, we wanted our water programme to achieve in four countries in West Africa. We … density of water points, and population percentages should not be our main focus. What we actually wanted was for everybody to drink clean …
Insight, 15 March 2012
A man points to a wild chimpanzee up a tree
Markets and payments for environmental services
… the important role that the environment plays in contributing to our wellbeing and economic prosperity, and the potential of market-based … of PES so they can learn from the knowledge we have gained through our hands-on action research approach with poor and marginalised groups … is still scanty — it is hard to prove that they actually work to benefit both livelihoods and environments. Getting more direct …
Project, 03 October 2008