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From decentralised finance to legal tools, this map showing real examples of innovative governance from around the world highlights seven tried-and-tested methods of empowering local institutions (Image: IIED)
Mapping innovative governance for sustainable development
Article, 24 November 2015
Agama Lizard, Uganda. Seven of Africa's biogeographic regions converge in Uganda, making it a country with a high level of biodiversity (Photo: Michael Sale, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Getting to know you: stronger relationships contribute to better biodiversity mainstreaming
Article, 21 March 2016
New construction sites for housing have been prepared by the government on the hillside above Nhon Hai, but the compensation isn't enough to let people move (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
If you want to go far, go together
Insight, 24 June 2014
Cover for G01499.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 16 Participatory rural appraisal in a women's health education project in Bangladesh
Publication, 01 January 1994
Rosebell Kagumire was among the delegates at the conference discussing the post-2015 development framework: priorities for the least developed countries, in late January (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Media missing from UN drive to engage millions on post-2015 development agenda
… invited to participate. Worse still, none of the 35 journalists at our workshop, who came from all corners of Uganda, had even heard of the … the media. Doing so now will also significantly ease the media's work once the UN member states have agreed the post-2015 agenda. A …
Insight, 04 February 2014
Beyond buzzwords: making adaptation a development norm
… Sire Diakite said that for Africa, the key was justice. ‘We want our knowledge and our expertise to be taken into any bilateral cooperation,’ she said. …
Insight, 12 December 2009
Cover for G01431.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 9 Cultural sensitivities on the Rapid Appraisal team
… Group study in Nepal, certain personal, personally and how to state our study cultural, and communications factors emerged objectives in … villages. (This issue is not quite as critical It turns out that our group is very sensitive when working with more educated, (that's …
Publication, 01 January 1992
Rural welders use mini-grid electricity to generate income (Photo: Energy Change Lab)
Power that changes lives: three lessons from a rural energy champion
… But Ashura is happy with this new supply – it brings in more work and boosts the family income. Diesel costs to run the dirty … for productive use.  And we want to tell you more stories from our ‘productive use’ champions! So we’ve compiled this short video that …
Insight, 19 September 2018
Sustainability agenda ignores democracy at its peril
News, 20 March 2013
Cover for G01636.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 8 Living with STDs and AIDS: The Mother Saradadevi Social Service Society, India
Publication, 01 January 1996