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People planting vegetables and trees.
Rubbish dump turned lush urban farm
… current and future health and economic impacts, and demands our attention and commitment to work together to overcome it. This blogs tells the story of a how a … its borders to tourism, we visited the Mae Kha communities to see how our friends were doing. Those with tourism-related jobs – making …
Insight, 03 December 2020
A group of four men and women wearing overalls, one with an axe over his shoulders and one crouching down, pose for a photo. In the foreground are a few rocks, with a dusty landcsape and mountains in the background.
Lessons from a fruitful journey: seven years of EbA research and action
… Human Environment and urge more action on nature and climate ( read our Stockhom+50 report ).  The following week, the UNFCCC Subsidiary … Ecosystem-based approaches for climate change adaptation (EbA) work with nature to help people adapt to climate change. In close … more than 200 stakeholders, and collated evidence from 12 countries. Our evidence shows that EbA can provide wide-reaching social, …
Insight, 31 May 2022
People sit around a desk and talk into microphones
What makes a sustainable diet? And who decides? Make Change Happen podcast episode 5
… IIED’s ‘Make Change Happen’ podcast provides an opportunity to hear our researchers discuss key global development challenges and explain … the discussion features Alejandro Guarin, senior researcher in our Shaping Sustainable Markets research group, and Costanza de Toma, … , she found the government remains wary of engaging. Instead, our work in here focused on innovations the traders themselves could make. …
Article, 05 May 2020
A student uses screen reading technology at the School of Information & Technology for the Visually Impaired in Dhaka, Bangladesh (Photo: Amanda Lasik/The Advocacy Project, Creative Commons via Flickr)
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Page, 28 July 2022
Man on a dried beach. Palm trees with roots uncovered.
IIED at 50: making IIED future fit
… an alternative world? What does that future look like? What is our transformational vision? How do we get there? This is something … You have to completely reorientate the way you think, the way you work and the way you operate. There are many colleagues I’ve still not … bring in people to ask us hard questions to make sure we’re pushing our own boundaries. The summer of 2020 led lots of people and lots of …
Article, 20 December 2021
Woman hanging laundry
What women want – part one
… five priority areas. Four are presented in this blog: roof over our heads; greens in our meals; women taking care of their own health; and wheels and wages. … and alone by COVID-19. They bore the burden of not having paid work, not bringing in money, having to feed the family, having to cope …
Insight, 18 May 2021
A group of people stand around a map on a table.
Kota Kita: facilitating citizen-led urban development
… urban areas be made safe, well-planned and climate-resilient? How our allies and collaborators create change As part of IIED’s 50th … organisation Kota Kita Foundation (Kota Kita translates as 'our city' in English) works with the people living in Indonesian cities … information gathering remains a cornerstone of Kota Kita's work, but today the organisation also works on a wide range of urban …
Article, 22 February 2022
Lots of people park their motorbikes to gather
Q&A: How COVID-19 is impacting rural Africans in the Sahel
… today is the first we have gone to in a long time. We’ve all changed our patterns of behaviour – no more hand-shaking and being face to face. … us have had problems because of not being able to travel to look for work, but now we’re much freer to move around, though many of the … them, you’re also attacking the villagers, but they took no notice. Our school was a community school and village people paid the teachers’ …
Article, 26 May 2021
Three women sit on the floor for a meeting
Responding to COVID-19 in a high-density low-income district in Mumbai
… COVID-19, all MM leaders took on responsibility for planning relief work in the area and to coordinate with Shekar sir from the National … committee since we didn’t like the way they worked, and we worked to our own guidelines. But now with the challenge of COVID-19, we all … hang around because they don’t have any work. When the police visit our area, all these people run into the various tenement buildings. We …
Insight, 13 May 2020
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 1 Sharing our concerns and looking to the future
… Document begins: PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988­2001 1 Sharing our concerns and looking to the future Elkanah Absalom et al. … PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 1 Sharing our concerns and looking to the future …
Publication, 01 January 1995