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Annual Report 2011
Annual Report 2010/11
… Annual Report highlights the year’s achievements, with a focus on our governance work: our efforts across all areas to secure transparent, sustainable, …
Page, 17 October 2011
Cover for G03444.pdf
Adaptation experts in training
Publication, 01 October 2012
IIED's animation about the way it works in partnership includes a focus on a project in Uganda to deliver fresh food systems (Image: IIED/NAP Design)
New video highlights how IIED's partnerships deliver change
… with Arc Creative Solutions , can be used to introduce IIED's work in a variety of ways, including at conferences and on social media. … message about the power of partnerships and how organisations can work together for a better future." Watch our animation, and let us know what you think. We would also be very …
News, 12 January 2017
IIED founder Barbara Ward has been honoured with a stamp in the Royal Mail's Remarkable Lives series
Royal Mail honours IIED founder Barbara Ward's 'remarkable life' with new stamp
… for the global environment and the earth's diminishing resources. Her work helped to define and establish today's widely accepted concept of … debate on how we share the wealth of this beautiful planet so all our grandchildren can prosper. We are delighted and proud that the Royal … connection between people and planet, a connection that still drives our work today." The other stamps in the series, which went on sale …
News, 24 March 2014
A worker cleans a train
Coronavirus and climate change are two crises that need humanity to unite
Insight, 13 March 2020
Nepalese women carry wood harvested sustainably from a forest. Forests cover nearly half of Nepal (Photo: Bikas Rauniar/Department for International Development, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
REDD+ in Paris – what could be in it for people and forests?
… conference in Paris can deliver for the peoples of the world and for our planet. The ambition is for a universal and legally binding … seems unable to agree on instruments and commitments that can reverse our unsustainable development path.  Governments have been urged to take … development and testing or renewing old approaches that could work if galvanized by REDD+? Finance is also important to enable people …
Insight, 27 November 2015
A collection of resources and images relating to the artisanal and small-scale mining sector compiled by IIED (Photos/images: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures and IIED)
A day of sharing ASM knowledge
… and productive mining sector. During the day, we shared aspects of our research and knowledge, including interviews with key stakeholders … who attended IIED's 'visioning workshop' Read an  overview of IIED's work on artisanal and small-scale mining Access useful resources , and … and responsible mining , including a historical timeline Download our publication: ' ASM-LSM-government relations: shaping an agenda for …
Article, 25 June 2015
Informal settlements lining the railway tracks in Mumbai (Photo: gloogun, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Ward diaries: crucial evidence for planning in Mumbai's slums
… levels of government too, down to the ward and sub-ward level. And our slum surveys provide data and maps for each ward and sub-ward.  So … and health care. Do the official land use maps include the slums? Our strong and detailed data enables us to discuss with local government … we can focus on what needs to be done in each slum. And how we can work together to address the resident's most pressing needs.  Slum …
Insight, 28 November 2016
Woman wearing a blazer checks her mobile phone in the street.
Towards gender equality: the digital rights of girls and women
… huge potential not only to help us adapt to crises, but to improve our lives. But the pandemic also exposed stark inequalities between … internet for activities that can transform lives – such as finding work and taking online learning classes – according to Onica Makwakwa, … By harnessing the power of technology while deploying solutions that work for everyone, we can advance towards gender equality. …
Insight, 24 January 2022
A market takes place in the village of Tiogo next to the Tiogo Forest in Burkina Faso. With much of the food and hand crafts on sale from the forest, the community is dependent on the conservation of the forest to maintain their livelihoods (Photo: CIF Action, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Towards a fairer future for conservation
… development – is much more sobering: The ecosystems that underpin our economies, well-being and survival are collapsing. Species are becoming extinct at unprecedented rates. Our climate is in crisis… The benefits of development are not shared … policymakers and practitioners have been addressing equity through work on rights and governance (particularly the recognition and …
Insight, 05 September 2016