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Forest Governance Learning Group - Ghana work plan 2008
… or other capacity building events for participants or simply carrying our agenda to other forums. Concretely in 2008 we will in association … the Collaborative Resource Management Unit of the Forestry Commission work to hold two formal governance training workshops for Forestry … Forest Governance Learning Group - Ghana work plan 2008 …
Publication, 01 February 2008
View of informal housing and vegetation in the background.
Better for everyone: exposing the hidden value of equitable housing in informal settlements
… settlements in terms of income, education and health outcome. Our speakers unpacked the findings of the study and shared their … And what are the implications for wider housing debates and advocacy work? …
Event, 20 July 2023
A number of informal tents forming a village.
Introduction to urban crises and forced displacement
… interventions in towns and cities builds on the long-standing work of the Human Settlements research group on urban poverty , governance, risk and resilience. It takes our understanding of urban systems to new audiences involved in … not work well in complex urban environments. One important strand of our work focuses on the experiences of refugees and internally displaced …
Article, 23 October 2020
Working with local journalists: a mutually beneficial partnership
… to discuss how forests, water and climate are all important for our future. These are the stories we must keep telling." About the …
Insight, 16 December 2011
People walking on agricultural land
Envisioning a better future for The Gambia
Insight, 19 July 2021
Close-up of a group of young climate demonstrators
Acting on the planetary emergency
Insight, 29 November 2019
A group of men and women stand around an array of plants on the ground
Archive of completed forest-climate action projects
… in monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV). Below are links to our more recent, archived projects. Testing REDD+ in Mozambique Between … delivering REDD+ ‘on the ground’ through local partners. We published our findings in a report which sets out how smallholder activities are … focused on Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mozambique. Our analysis found important insights into ways of securing private …
Article, 20 December 2021
Man types in a laptop, in front of a big screen
Data tales – part five: ‘not so smart’ computing?
… to think computers can magically solve the complex challenges facing our cities. No, they cannot. In fact, the computer – even the mightiest … keep the websites and dashboards running for show, while the actual work reverts to manual mode. So instead of reducing repetitive and … technology, while breaking the backs of municipal workers with manual work is some perverted application of ‘smartness’. …
Insight, 08 December 2022
Conversation between a woman with a notebook and a man, with trees in the background
The Nobel and poverty alleviation: "A slow deliberative process of discovery – no miracle cure"
… as Nobel Laureates for their more than a quarter of a century’s work in showing how randomised evaluations (randomised control trials) … of an international policy research think tank – just coming up to our 50th birthday – many of the things they have talked about resonate closely with our experience in tackling the poverty alleviation challenge. “A slow …
Insight, 23 October 2019
A woman wearing a mask sprays a lqiuid on someone else's hands.
Making Change Happen in the era of COVID-19
… its office doors, a ‘temporary measure’ has developed into a new era. Our work has continued but inevitably changed; how we deliver it, but also in terms of priorities and the needs of our partners. The scope and scale of the pandemic and its impacts and …
Page, 20 August 2020