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Voices aloud: making communication and change together (PLA 50)
… prefer to ignore voices when they are calling for change. Based on our experiences of working on issues of development failures and on … for change must therefore respond to the context in which the work is taking place; for it is determined by the nature of the society, …
Publication, 01 October 2004
Community reblocking to improve settlement design and the quality of the neighbourhood in Namibia (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
Namibia shows how to support low cost housing
… so much resistance from other planning professionals about our ideas to set development levels that matched affordability. I … enable finance, and reform regulations. Local families can then work with government to secure tenure and upgrade services, before … that are serious about addressing poor housing at scale must work with local communities. Without strong local engagement, government …
Insight, 13 June 2014
A new UNESCO publication will support African journalists to tackle climate change issues (Photo credit: Internews / Brice Rimbaud)
Climate change in Africa: a guidebook for journalists
News, 16 January 2014
Schoolgirls and a teacher in a classroom
Pathways to learning – finding new ways to evaluate SDG progress
… and apply the lessons to their own context. We published a summary of our thinking so far in a briefing paper published last week by IIED and …
Article, 15 July 2019
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PLA Notes 37 February 2000 7 Collaborative planning to improve women's health
… process using examples the development process, from programme from our work in Beni Suef, a governorate1 in design to evaluation. Through …
Publication, 01 February 2000
Costa Rica's Peñas Blancas Reservoir is the focus of work involving payments for ecosystem services (Photo: Dr Ina Porras)
Payments for ecosystem services: We can't leave people out of the equation
… sector participation. We heard real life examples of schemes that work directly with local communities — from a Mexican forest community … about the barriers they face and how to assess if the schemes really work.  Ina Porras, a senior researcher at IIED, shared lessons from … Money, scale and next steps In the final session of the day, our attention turned to money: how to secure funding and who will pay …
Insight, 28 March 2014
Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Development project updates
Mainstreaming biodiversity and development project updates
… guidance together for other countries and discuss how mainstreaming work can be scaled up successfully. July 2016 Reports from national … 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 … and held in high regard with all who came into contact with him. Our thoughts and prayers are with Jonathan's family and friends. He will …
Article, 21 March 2014
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IIED and partners at the UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP14)
… IIED's activities during the two-week gathering, where some of our researchers and partners hosted and spoke at COP side events. 2nd … and Culture Summit, held under the auspices of the Joint Programme of Work between the Convention on Biological Diversity and UNESCO on the … Culture Summit is held under the auspices of the Joint Programme of Work between the Convention on Biological Diversity and UNESCO on the …
Event, 17 November 2018
More People, More Trees / Plus de gens, plus d'arbres
… appropriate measures. In the early 1990s two videos, 'Looking after our Land' and 'Building on Traditions' recorded these new approaches. …
Publication, 01 October 2010
A CCAFS and CIAT participatory photography project in Chiquimula, Guatemala. A framework on how to monitor and evaluate social learning approaches is now available. (Photo: Gian Betancourt/CIAT, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Paper outlines framework to monitor and evaluate social learning approaches
… seeking to learn more about social learning and share their own work with others, but also to kick off work on a social learning monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework. The … Social learning is not always the most appropriate approach; our analysis should reveal in what situations initiatives and …
Insight, 13 February 2015