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This graphic illustrates some of the benefits of undertaking monitoring and evaluation, including better decision making, supporting learning and accountability and gathering information for reporting
Supporting national monitoring and evaluation systems to enable adaptation assessment and reporting
… the Paris Agreement.  The project is part of a wider programme of work providing Support for the Implementation of the Paris Agreement … goals and complex metrics.  What are we doing? Together with our partners, the  International Centre for Climate Change and … responsible for reporting back against international agreements. Our aim will be to enable them to track progress with comparable …
Project, 24 September 2018
IIED director Camilla Toulmin speaks in a plenary session on day one of IIED's Fair Ideas event in Rio de Janeiro, June 2012 (Photo: Tom Broadhurst/IIED)
The things that make me proud
… report, it says "change is in the air… with the Brundtland Report Our Common Future presented in October 1987, the World Bank and other … people overseas, though sometimes you could make long-distance calls work too. In late 1988, we got a fax machine, which spent the first few … really helped embed this knowledge and approach.  And I am proud of our work on land rights, tenure and common property, especially …
Insight, 22 June 2015
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Poverty - Conservation Linkages: A Conceptual Framework
… a way to understand poverty-conservation linkages. It is drawn from our recent review of published and grey literature and the stakeholder … of the new Poverty and Conservation Learning Group, as well as from our own related work. It is intended to be further developed and revised, in particular …
Publication, 01 November 2005
Solar panels on a lake.
Organisers offer busy events programme in the countdown to CBA14
News, 31 August 2020
A women puts food into an outdoor oven
Keeping Bolivia’s culture alive through food
… We need food for much more than nurturing our bodies. Food is crucial for building and strengthening cultures. It … bump up supply of cañahua  A great example of the RFG approach is the work MIGA has been doing to revitalise the commercialisation of cañahua, … They are the custodians of Bolivian culinary traditions and MIGA’s work focuses on bringing women together. Grandmothers, mothers and …
Insight, 18 June 2019
Delegates discuss the Hilsa Conservation Trust Fund at the Bangladesh workshop. The fund is part of work to enhance the effectiveness of incentive-based fisheries management (Photo: Essam Yassin Mohammed/IIED)
Conservation trust fund proposed to help Bangladesh increase fish stocks
… to increase stocks of its national fish, the hilsa. The fund will work by improving incentives for sustainable fisheries management.  … for sustainable development, conservation and management of our national fish." The hilsa fish (Tenualosa ilisha) is a staple food … of the Hilsa Conservation Trust Fund is very timely when our hilsa fishery is under pressure of exploitation due to increase of …
News, 11 June 2015
Understanding disruptive change is vital for Southern civil society organisations, and organisations such as IIED can help partners (Image: IIED)
Mapping the disruptive change ecosystem for Southern CSOs
… that have lasting impacts on mission, values, or ways of working. Our group of 16, including IIED's Lila Buckley and Tom Bigg , shared personal insights, looked at our organisations' roles in the broader political economy of disruptive … by creating disruption, Southern CSOs – and those of us who work with them – will be changed ourselves. We can and should celebrate …
Insight, 21 December 2016
A pick up truck lies mostly submerged under a water in a flooded street.
Five moments from 2012 that could spell change for the planet
Insight, 07 January 2013
Digging the foundations for a new home in an informal settlement in Nairobi (Photo: April Rinne, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Off the beaten track: Urban Matters blog roll
… ACCCRN   This blog showcases the work of the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN). … academics, thought leaders, and young people on how to shape our urban future. Its purpose is to highlight some of the urban … them. WIEGO This blog appears in multiple languages and draws on the work of Women in Informal Employment: Globalising and Organising. …
Article, 24 November 2015
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Community biocultural protocols: building mechanisms for access and benefit sharing among the communities of the Potato Park based on Quechua customary norms (summary report)
… translation forthcoming. Follow the links below for more about our work on Biocultural heritage. …
Publication, 01 October 2011