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A group of people working at a table
Learning together boosts confidence and better communications
… everyone. The week brings staff responsible for communications from our partners in the global South to London for a four-day joint workshop … after some busy days – and a couple of evenings – together, off go our partners back to their homes and work. It’s too soon! Conversations have just got going, there’s much …
Insight, 22 November 2019
Example of Volanta pump in use - note pump parts external to mounting - Niger
Global Water Initiative: Niger
… irrigation over 45,000 hectares Water for agriculture (2013-17) Our work in Niger focused on achieving secure land tenure for both the state … on the scheme using contract models developed and agreed through our previous work. Our research also informs the government on …
Project, 16 February 2018
Arid landscape in the Mount Kenya region
Archive of completed 'Global ambition for climate action and justice' projects
Article, 14 April 2021
Putul Rani and her family are members of a hilsa fish conservation group in Bangladesh that aims to help protect fish stocks (Photo: WorldFish, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED webinar: Gender and biodiversity conservation – progress and future directions
… IIED's mission. But it is not just a prerequisite to the issues we work on, it is also essential to our ways of working. By definition that must include a strong – and in … between and among women and men.  This webinar, part of the work of IIED's internal Gender Equality Champions Network , discussed …
Event, 01 November 2018
IIED researchers in Uganda: "IIED works with small and medium sized enterprise (SMEs), municipal governments, pastoral communities, representatives of urban poor federations, smallholder farming groups, and other poorly represented interests" (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Reflections on my time as IIED director
… in communications. We needed to go along to events, speak, and get our voice heard and recognised. IIED is in a completely different place … making sure we thought through the implications of climate change for work across all our programmes. Saleemul Huq led this process, making the case for why …
Insight, 05 March 2015
An interactive data visual that illustrates the scale and speed of urban transformation that research by IIED has sought to document and describe
IIED's best of 2014: multimedia
… For our research to have the greatest impact possible, and  to engage and appeal to our audiences,  sometimes we need to use innovative methods of … some of the exciting new formats to help tell the story of our work  –  while not forgetting the more traditional and familiar printed …
Insight, 12 January 2015
Landslide
Loss and damage from climate change has pushed Sierra Leoneans far beyond their ability to adapt
Insight, 02 December 2020
Fishing the ocean
Action for an ocean for all
… such as the  cobalt needed for electric vehicles . Meanwhile, our global plastic habit means the remotest ocean areas are collecting … investment is not equitably distributed. For instance, 96% of fishers work in small-scale fisheries that are overwhelmingly (over 90%) in …
Long read, 25 March 2019
Mangrove reforestation project
Development and life in general under threat from accelerating destruction of nature – but solutions are possible
… are threatened with extinction – more than at any other time in our history. Human beings have now significantly altered nature across … dependent on the rich diversity of nature for its survival. But our actions are simultaneously undermining the complex nature on which our lives and livelihoods depend at an unprecedented rate. "Radical, …
News, 06 May 2019
The IIED communications team discuss audience personas as part of the Communications Learning Programme held with partners in February (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Three steps for reaching the right audiences in an information-saturated world
… personas, but they and others form a key part of IIED's communication work. Developing personas isn't new, but it works. It's one of the tools … to "link local priorities to global challenges", we need to share our research with people who can use it to improve the lives of the poorest and most vulnerable communities. To achieve our goals we need to use a range of communications methods, develop …
Insight, 27 March 2014