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The trouble with growth: Make Change Happen podcast episode 4
… IIED’s ‘Make Change Happen’ podcast provides an opportunity to hear our researchers discuss key global development challenges and explain … Mohammed, IIED’s head of blue economy; Clare Shakya, director of our Climate Change research group; and Paul Steele, IIED's chief … the environment and the care economy – meaning a huge amount of work done by women literally doesn’t count.  GDP also largely overlooks …
Article, 11 March 2020
Children using water pump in Burkina Faso
Global Water Initiative: Burkina Faso
… GWI focus dam: Bagré (completed 1994) During GWI's previous phase of work in Burkina Faso (2008-12), we also focused on integrated water … have access to secure land tenure. Agricultural advisory services Our research on the issues faced by rice-producing smallholders – both … of these services. An economic assessment of Bagré In parallel to our work with smallholder rice producers, we also carried out an …
Project, 16 February 2018
Water with open sewage is stagnant in a built up area
Planning for reality in one of Nairobi’s largest ‘slums’
… infrastructure and improve basic services for 100,000 households. Our guides were local representatives from SDI Kenya – the Kenya … One team member was blind, accompanied by an assistant. As we made our way into Mukuru, an SDI colleague asked me how, based on my first … codes. It responds to very real problems in pragmatic ways that will work for the poorest residents. Mukuru has been identified as an area …
Insight, 04 December 2019
GWI influence - access and rights to irrigated land - planting rice - Selingue dam - Mali
Global Water Initiative: Mali
… analysis across all three countries. Agricultural advisory services Our research on the issues faced by rice-producing smallholders has … advisory services. An economic assessment of Sélingué In parallel to our work with smallholder rice producers, we also carried out an economic …
Project, 16 February 2018
Miners on a steep hillside mine tungsten
Secure land rights are now more important than ever
… many of the flaws, vulnerabilities, and inequalities inherent in our governance and economic systems. While many are hopeful that the … now regarding how these resources are used and accessed will shape our world for years to come, significantly impacting and influencing … the basis for evidence-based decisions on where to target our work.    Robust policy and legal framework support : well-formulated …
Insight, 29 January 2021
A crocodile and three ducks
Q&A: Fulufhelo Mukhadi on mainstreaming biodiversity in South Africa
… Q: Tell us a bit about SANBI's work on biodiversity-development mainstreaming FM: We've been working … to help with obtaining things like National Treasury support for our proposals and buy-in from the area in which we are mainstreaming. In other cases, our science-based tools are demand-led by the sector themselves and are …
Article, 18 November 2014
The Retiro district of Buenos Aires features affluent shopping and business areas close to a large shanty town where many homes don't have running water (Photo: Mark Edwards/IIED)
Urbanisation and the environment
… whether urbanisation is environmentally beneficial or destructive. As our previous work on urban environmental transitions  showed, it is growing urban … Issues of urbanisation and environment are also closely linked to our cities and climate change work, including that summarised in books …
Project, 16 July 2015
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China-Africa Forest Governance Project News | November 2015
… News and highlights from our work on the China-Africa Forest Governance project in Cameroon, DRC, …
Publication, 01 November 2015
A woman wearing a mask pours chemicals into a bottle.
Addressing gendered and other inequalities will be central to COVID-19 recovery
Article, 11 September 2020
Participants in IIED's 2015 Communications Learning Week provide feedback on their experiences (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Five reasons why you’ll regret missing out on IIED’s Communications Learning Week
… Diane Archer, and I saw this as a good opportunity to improve my work both for the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience (ACCCRN) … I always feel overwhelmed by the extensive work needed to communicate our programmes to our beneficiaries. I collaborate with the communications team in our …
Insight, 26 June 2015