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Two women in an African landscape: one with a camera filming another with a microphone
The million-dollar question: how do I know my comms is working?
… it with previous years, or previous campaigns. We can compare it with our competitors’ data. It’s valuable, and we rely on it to help tell the story of our work – where we are seen, who we connect to and what they think of …
Insight, 20 November 2019
Members of Namibia's Marinefluss Conservancy hope their remote community will benefit from joint ventures with tourist enterprises (Photo: Steve Felton, WWF via USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Women, wildlife and the workings of the CBD
… strategies are more effective when communities and authorities work together over the long term and when the traditional rights of … peoples and local communities are respected.  Fearless females Our own work through the Beyond Enforcement initiative  has shown that …
Insight, 20 November 2018
Testing the water in Kenya's Tana River watershed. The river's ecosystem is being affected by a range of factors. Public and private organisations are exploring ways to improve ecosystem management (Photo: Georgina Smith/CIAT, Creative Commons via Flickr)
'Sustainable development science' for transforming our world
… businesses and communities want to know how they can truly 'transform our world' through implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) … planning sustainable development. One that would help scientists to work better together in shaping 'sustainable … 'Sustainable development science' for transforming our world …
Insight, 09 October 2015
IIED's three-and-a-half minute film to communicate the ambitions and universal reach of the SDGs had been viewed almost 20,000 times by February 2017 (Image: IIED/Hands Up)
IIED's work on the post-2015 agenda
Article, 27 February 2017
Group image of the members of the C20 working group
Driving impact at the G20: lessons from IIED's engagement with philanthropies
… multilateral system and sustainable development. This process ,  and our participation in both the F20 Climate Solutions Forum  and the C20 … goals, and a growing number of world leaders are embracing them . In our conversations, we were encouraged by the ambition within the … but that is nevertheless absent from these conversations. As our work at IIED shows, the predominant housing model in most countries …
Insight, 24 July 2024
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Rethinking capacity building
… North consistently grapple with how they can decolonise the way they work and better integrate gender and intersectionality perspectives into … IIED has been taking strides to bring these perspectives into our work, and we are now also using gender, intersectionality and …
Publication, 11 March 2024
Four people sit on the floor to look at a map on the ground.
In her name: securing land tenure for women in Zambia
… me and my children. I am a landholder because it has the signature of our chief,”  explained Ruth. “Before, if I spoke up or disagreed with my … beyond having a certificate in hand. Over the past six years, this work has shown that making land documentation gender-responsive requires …
Insight, 14 October 2021
Coral reefs provide us with goods worth hundreds of billions of dollars but are in decline. Copyright: 2004 Richard Ling
How to protect our oceans: use more carrots
… beach and you can't help but appreciate how much the oceans enrich our lives. The sea spray, the waves, the salty air, the calls of the … them as such, these are among the goods and services we receive from our marine and coastal ecosystems, along with the more obvious fish that … Mechanism are being implemented show that these programmes work where there is good governance. Lessons from a recent World Bank …
Insight, 01 November 2013
Villagers in India dig out a silted-up water tank as part of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Act (Photo: McKay Savage, Creative Commons via Flickr)
2019 – the way forward is a Green Decent Work Guarantee
Insight, 30 December 2018
Temporary settlements in Kirtipur, Nepal, which was devastated by earthquakes in 2015 (Photo: Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed)
Cash transfers in urban crises: do they work for women?
… Our research began in Kirtipur – an ancient city 5km south-west of … and girls whose incomes are heavily dependent on informal home-based work: when homes are reduced to rubble, paid home-based work disappears. … of UN Security Council resolutions on women, peace and security .  Our research will examine the impact of the cash and voucher aid …
Insight, 08 March 2017