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Woman walking on a pipe with garbage around.
Call to international funders: address grassroots organisations’ priorities, not yours
… current and future health and economic impacts, and demands our attention and commitment to work together to overcome it. Here, Sheela Patel explains why saving … they asking these organisations what form of external support would work best for them? The growing pressures on savings groups In the last …
Insight, 14 October 2020
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Smallholder Innovation for Resilience (SIFOR) - Qualitative Baseline Study, Central & Eastern Himalayas, India
… a common scientific framework. Follow the links below for more about our work on biocultural heritage. …
Publication, 01 October 2014
Seaweed farmers in Indonesia (Photo: Hiswaty Hafid/USAid, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Focusing the blue economy future on small-scale fisheries
… fisheries. For IIED, small-scale fisheries and the people who work for them and with them, are central to the success and … and then – they should be at the centre of the conversation. Hence our recent #OceanHour Twitter chat and the invitation to all interested … putting much back. So is that the end of the story? Of course not. Our #OceanHour participants were keen to provide examples of a different …
Insight, 18 February 2019
Young people in Okola, Cameroon, cluster around a Global Positioning System that they are using to create a community map with geographical features.
Future world: addressing the contradictions of planet, people, power and profits
… a new five-year strategy and we’re starting a discussion now on what our ‘world view’ should be. This view will inform how we operate and where, who we work with and what areas we focus on in the next strategic period. IIED … commitment and policies. Working with partners remains central to our work IIED partners are central to the way we work, and key to our …
Insight, 07 June 2013
London Climate Action Week 2021 logo
IIED at London Climate Action Week, June/July 2021
… IIED to bring forward the voices and amplify the climate actions of our partners on a global stage. Actors in the global South have a huge … on climate action, and it is crucial for us to learn from their work, so we can collectively make change happen. In 2021, IIED and … debt sustainability. All countries at the ministerial committed to work together to drive real progress on the solutions, and time is of …
Event, 28 June 2021
The Nebbou area, between Ouagadougou and Leo, a dry reservoir used for the manufacture of handmade bricks in Burkina Faso (Photo: Ollivier Girard/Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR))
Archive of completed drylands and pastoralist projects
… years in the drylands In 2011 we commissioned an external review of our drylands programme, which ran from 1987-2009. The review applauded our positive portrayal of the drylands, our capacity-building approach … IIED should continue to operate its research and policy-influencing work from a distance, encouraging African partners'  proposals. Rather …
Article, 17 December 2012
A man sprays disinfectant onto a person's hands
How Dhaka's urban poor are dealing with COVID-19
… current and future health and economic impact that it demands our attention and commitment to work together to overcome it. This blog comes from John Taylor, an urban … puts it like this: “We did not step back. We have continued our social services amid this COVID-19 emergency by protecting ourselves …
Insight, 01 July 2020
The voices of women involved in farming and fisheries, such as these in Bangladesh, are often lost in decision-making (Photo: CBFM-Fem Com Bangladesh/WorldFish, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Does gender balance improve forestry and fishery management?
… groups to resource governance and biodiversity conservation. Our focus is on forests and fisheries, and we're looking at non-OECD … (although we are including Mexico and Chile).  We hope that this work will provide policymakers and researchers with an outline of useful … base for further research enquiry. You can see how we are conducting our research in a recently published protocol – ' Does the gender …
Insight, 02 July 2015
The chairman of the Mpungu Authorised Resource User Group, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, who was involved in the development of the 'Multiple Use' programme (Photo: Mariel Harrison)
Built on collaboration: how conservation research can benefit local people
… a close relationship with the relevant authorities throughout our research in Uganda: when our findings showed what was wrong, they acted immediately to put things … specialist at Parsons Brinckerhoff . Re ad more about this work: Uganda: Conserving Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and reducing …
Insight, 27 March 2015
South Africa President Jacob Zuma speaks to China counterpart Xi Jinping at the FOCAC summit in Sandton, Johannesburg in 2015. China is increasingly influential in Africa (Photo: GCIS/GovernmentZA, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
CSR practices of Chinese businesses in the global South
… and social practices in daily operations. The results are detailed in our discussion paper .  We wanted to find out how much influence Chinese … Chinese businesses maintain cosy relationships with host governments, our interviewees were frank about the challenges of dealing with local … manager of a state-owned enterprise in Uganda said: "Our construction team cannot move an inch in some sections — the local …
Insight, 31 March 2016