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The health, wellbeing and climate benefits of slum upgrading
… settlements [but] this is not seen as a health intervention.” Indeed, our review of slum upgrading evaluations from cities across Asia, Africa … potential of upgrading for health, climate resilience and inclusion, our report identifies ten priority upgrading interventions that can … processes, including in Environment and Urbanization . We continue to work closely with Slum Dwellers International (SDI) , the Asian …
Article, 09 June 2022
A community in Cameroon, where Centre pour l'Environnement et le Developpement has been supporting junior lawyers in rural communities (Photo: Lorenzo Cotula/IIED)
Legal empowerment: what we do, what we've learned
… chance to learn from diverse approaches and share experience from our ' Legal tools for citizen empowerment ' initiative. Since 2006, this … people in the face of natural resource investments. Characterising our work: three key features  Analysis, insight and learning form the …
Insight, 14 November 2017
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Building resilience in Ethiopia: climate-resilient development planning and budgeting
… of the CRGE Facility and working in close collaboration with our partner in Addis Ababa,  Echnoserve , IIED is supporting work across the following key areas: •    Developing guidelines for … and communicate learning internally to improve the quality of future work. So far, IIED has contributed to development of guidelines and …
Project, 25 May 2021
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Partnerships and collaboration for a more responsible minerals sector
… and on the conditions of workers in these supply chains. IIED's work on sustainable mineral markets targets government and private … sector policymaking to ensure a focus on inclusion and equality. Our current work on building a more responsible minerals sector … gold production using the CRAFT and Fairmined standards. Using our dialogue methodology, we will lead a multi-stakeholder dialogue …
Article, 04 May 2021
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Ministers, NGOs, academia and grassroots discuss resilience beyond COVID-19
… Investment in order to join forces and address the climate crisis in our economic response. He said: "Finance and economies play a crucial role in climate action. We need to improve our efforts to mobilise private sector finance, in addition to public … boiled down to a simple message: we have to act early, act fast, and work together. Professor Sir Andy Haines, former director of London …
News, 07 July 2020
A women farmer tends crops on a dried river pond
Transparent climate reporting in Malawi: what’s needed, what’s next?
… working towards strong implementation of the framework, reflecting on our country contexts and identifying steps we must take to report … flexibility to meet ETF standards. But this isn’t long to assess our national capacity, gaps and the support we will need to build … and a national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory; we are preparing our first Biennial Update Report – a milestone for our country.   But …
Insight, 03 October 2019
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External review 2017
… IIED's main institutional funders commission an independent review of our work. This is a major undertaking, which requires work spread over a … of a broad cross-section of IIED supporters, partners and users of our work. The final report provides a hugely valuable assessment of the …
Page, 20 April 2017
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Q&A: Encouraging the availability of healthy and diverse foods for students
… using tapioca and rice flour instead. We also put vegetables in our cilok – carrots and spinach that we pick from around the school. And … as delicious as manufactured snacks or their mother’s cooking. Plus, our traditional snacks are packed with leaves, or use plates, while the … (in Bahasa only), Hivos and IIED’s Sustainable Diets for All (SD4All) work in Jember regency has provided Siti Latifah with support on healthy …
Article, 29 October 2019
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Shared vulnerabilities? Connecting climate and health in cities: Make Change Happen podcast episode 7
… IIED’s ‘Make Change Happen’ podcast provides an opportunity to hear our researchers and guests discuss key global development challenges and … crises and the risks of climate change in cities ; it forms part of our efforts to observe and contribute to forward-looking  responses to … Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP)  is a programme of work focusing on the social dimensions of emergency responses: it works …
Article, 06 August 2020
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Latest IIED podcast puts the focus on energy access
… offers listeners the opportunity to hear from researchers about their work on key global challenges and how we are working to make change … , which sets out IIED's response to the critical challenges of our time, from climate crisis to biodiversity loss and increasing inequality. Episode 1, Protecting our ocean , centred on IIED’s work to protect the ocean and marine …
News, 15 November 2019