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The publicity for our Twitter chat on 27 March 2017 (Image: Nick Turner/IIED)
Creating a conversation online
… a way that is inclusive, cost-effective and immediate. The results of our first Twitter chat were encouraging. We decided to use the Twitter … format, a public conversation around a unique hashtag, to engage with our target audience for a specific area of work.  We wanted to create an online conversation linked to the …
Insight, 20 April 2017
Two of the 20 questions in last year's environment and development quiz. After learning lots of lessons, we have produced another one this year... (Image: IIED)
A quiz-ical look at Christmas content
… such as ours. But that doesn't mean we stop trying to get our message out to interested audiences, and it even forces us to … to look at. Last year, we decided to tackle this problem by creating our first quiz . We were so pleased with the response it received we … our quiz. We wanted to highlight a range of information about IIED's work during the year and we wanted to make it less serious than our …
Insight, 24 December 2015
Toilet block and water tank
How small changes can make a big impact in achieving sustainable sanitation
… IIED’s Facebook page regularly invites our followers – particularly our younger audience – to blog about their opinions and experiences. … into plans to improve their toilets. While my initial thought was to work on a flushing toilet, I soon came to understand that, for the …
Insight, 09 December 2020
Example of multiple use of a water source in the Black Volta basin at Bagri Zongo - Ghana
Global Water Initiative: Ghana
… and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (2008-12) GWI West Africa work in Ghana began in 2008 and ended in 2012 under the first phase of … water users (ie settled agriculturalists and nomadic pastoralists). Our programme was therefore much-needed, and our intervention was timely. Project achievements Provided drinking …
Project, 16 February 2018
A person standing looking at steep hillsides with terraced fields.
Loss and damage in Rwanda: a young climate activist reports
Insight, 03 September 2020
Cattle are driven down a road by nomads
Climate change is advancing in Nigeria: we can’t keep running
… Earlier this year, IIED launched a monthly blog series on our Facebook page where we invite our followers – focusing particularly on our younger audience – to write … floods and land erosion; farmers there gain very little from their work. When nomads migrate down from the north for survival their animals …
Insight, 17 December 2019
Women selling spices in the street
Getting attention to a much-neglected health agenda: occupational health and safety
… respondent reported: “We refused, and they are no longer supplying our section with water”. For solid waste, most residents should receive … in air pollution, as one urban farmer in Mabvuku-Tafara noted: “Our air is not clean. It has a lot of dust from roads, from the nearby … longer there.” Unsafe working conditions Waste pickers and recyclers work outdoors, often in harsh weather. In some dump sites, informal …
Insight, 27 April 2021
COP26 logo
IIED at COP26
… adaptation to climate change at the local level, and more. Find all our latest research, commentary, news, analysis during COP26 . Key … and policymakers from across the world to discuss how to work together to build a climate-resilient future for all.  Read the key … exchange, and for honest and open discussions on cutting edge climate work with the goal of enhancing understanding of climate risk and …
Event, 01 November 2021
Four men siting on a wall looking at a landscape
Mental health, wellbeing and sense of hope among vulnerable Afghans plummeted in wake of Taliban takeover
… food, water and shelter, then their problems have been addressed. But our research paints a much more detailed picture of the challenges they … needs to be paid to their physical and mental health, ability to find work and take part in social life.” Researchers contacted almost 900 …
News, 28 November 2022
A group of fishermen on a boat in Bangladesh
Leave no one behind: assessing policy choices
… and processes at every level, from local to global? What IIED did Our research explored how the SDGs can address the causes of social … – including people who are disabled, elderly or extremely poor.  Our case studies showed that low-income urban groups in Southeast Asia … access to appropriate finance . IIED fed these findings into other work with partners to share how local power structures enhance or impede …
Project, 20 May 2019