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Uncomfortable conversations? Confronting development’s White gaze: Make Change Happen podcast episode 18
… IIED’s ‘Make Change Happen’ podcast provides an opportunity to hear our researchers and guests discuss key global development challenges and … history of struggles against racism and colonisation – with ongoing work to promote anti-racist and decolonising agendas. The development … language and communications. Maryam Mohsin shares Bond’s recent work to develop a language guide that unpacks words used regularly in …
Article, 20 July 2022
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Taking stock: community responses to COVID-19 in cities
… community gardens and urban agriculture. Quezon City:  ‘Greens in our meals’ was a high priority for the women of the Homeless People’s … Indian state developed a successful programme to provide immediate work and income for migrants , linked to an ambitious upgrading … internet for their conversations to develop their asks : Support for our priorities, not those of external agencies  A roof over our heads …
Insight, 19 October 2021
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Remote but productive: Practical lessons from productive uses of energy in Tanzania
… in Tanzania to build sustainable, people-centred energy systems. Our productive uses of energy (PUE) programme helps rural communities … increase their incomes and productivity. This paper describes our work with two mini-grid developers to develop and test practical …
Publication, 01 May 2019
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Nature 4 Development – introducing IIED’s new 2020 initiative
… organisations perceive biodiversity as tangential to their work. But while they may still be absent from current nature diplomacy … and development. Most, if not all, the organisations that attended our meeting (including ActionAid, CAFOD, Oxfam, Tearfund, Farm Africa … bushmeat hunting are linked.  Getting nature-based solutions right Our Nature 4 Development initiative seeks to build not only on this …
Insight, 29 January 2020
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IIED launches podcast
… focusing on key sustainable development issues and how we will play our part to make change happen. The podcast title, ‘Make Change Happen’, … , which sets out IIED's response to the critical challenges of our time, from climate crisis to biodiversity loss and increasing … inequality. Each episode will provide informal insights into IIED’s work to create positive change and make the complex issues we face more …
News, 23 August 2019
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Frontline Funds Accelerator: catalysing climate investment to the grassroots
… are overlooked in the financing landscape.  A coalition to champion our shared ten-year vision The Frontline Funds Accelerator is a … increase their funds and financial flows to grassroots organisations. Our four workstreams seek to bring about system-wide change that span work local and global levels. The partnership is driven by principles of …
Project, 01 July 2021
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Rights, advocacy and participation - what's working? (PLA 50)
… to shift the deeply embedded forces of power and exclusion in our societies? What can the language and practices of rights and … and the challenge of bring these perspectives into participatory work, and looks at the ways in which these elements converge of diverge …
Publication, 01 October 2004
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Why global development needs Black activism
… ideas that underpin racism, and to understand how racism impacts our organisations and our mandates. Black activism has the power to ensure this unpacking … throughout colonialism and apartheid, these ideas shape development work today.    Since its inception, the sector has showcased black and …
Insight, 25 June 2020
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Trade and sustainable development
… poorer countries. This project builds on and further develops IIED’s work on trade-related issues to make a distinct contribution to these … (LDCs) and marginalised people in society. What is IIED doing? Our work in this project initially focuses on three themes. Rethinking trade …
Project, 14 June 2022
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VPAs and NDCs: sharing the toolbox? How lessons learned from EU FLEGT can be put to work for the Paris Agreement
Publication, 01 March 2018