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A woman holds up woven baskets
Nominating your outstanding women in development
… theme and spirit of the IIED lecture series shows our support for all women doing amazing things in our sector, and IIED’s staff and others have come together to nominate some outstanding women. … now in its 25th year," says Anna. "It represents around 8.5 million people and is the largest grassroots movement and organisation in …
Article, 15 June 2020
Tanzania: participatory training events for small-scale farmers can introduce the concept of climate change and help farmers identify which crops could work well in their area (Photo: Cecilia Schubert/CCAFS)
From knowledge to action – how top down training is driving bottom-up resilience in Tanzania
Insight, 09 March 2015
Street in Karachi, Pakistan with overflowing sewage.
The real issue is universal access to affordable basic services
… leaders have endorsed partial MDG targets.  Halving the proportion of people with inadequate incomes, halving the numbers who suffer from … their lives and their development. Astonishing deficiencies Despite all the promises, commitments and declarations made by governments and … documented and discussed among both government and development agency staff alike, surely a critical first step is a universal standard to …
Insight, 14 August 2012
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 3 Participatory RRA in Gujarat
… use by the Aga Khan Rural Support programme (India). I joined Are not all RRAs participatory? Well, they are staff from AKRSP(I) and together we to the extent that it is the local people who are designed and conducted a participatory type of …
Publication, 01 January 1988
The publicity for our Twitter chat on 27 March 2017 (Image: Nick Turner/IIED)
Creating a conversation online
… the conversation – and promoted these ahead of the scheduled chat. All in all, 54 people engaged in the Twitter chat, with more than 200 posts made … CAFOD Policy (@CAFODwire) March 28, 2017 We tried to make it easy for staff and partners not familiar with the Twitter chat format by …
Insight, 20 April 2017
Ongoing monitoring of communal toilets has helped to improve design: here, smaller toilets for children are included in adult toilet blocks. Previously children's facilities were in separate buildings and were frequently left uncleaned (Photo: SPARC)
How India's slum and pavement dwellers made sanitation affordable
… 1993, 366 toilets blocks with 6,952 toilets serving more than 350,000 people have been built in Mumbai, thanks to the federation of slum and … careful and transparent financial management.   Just as importantly, all of the women, men and children must want to use the toilet (and not … monitoring system and the regular meetings between local government staff and the federations also produced solutions to the maintenance …
Insight, 05 April 2015
We need a plan. A plan that will guide us towards achieving real impact for smallholders. We are now documenting our work on creating Impact Pathways and Theories of Change in a new Learning Brief (Photo: G Smith/CCFAS)
How do we best create long-term impact that matters to smallholder farmers?
Insight, 09 April 2014
Community-based adaptation in Bangladesh. Photo: G.M.B. Akash/PANOS
Developing nations put climate change adaptation at the centre of planning
… for programmes and projects. The network is open to any government staff, from all countries. "This is a like-minded government network, who are … who followed the conference over the internet –learnt about ways that people around the world are adapting to climate change in both rural and …
News, 25 April 2013
Fishermen from Mayadip Island, Bangladesh. IIED will be discussing Bangladesh's work on payments for sustainable fisheries at the EDD15 forum (Photo: Matthew Becker, the Advocacy Project, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED at European Development Days 2015
… sector representatives, international media and European Union staff. EDD15's theme was 'Our world, our dignity, our future'.  Dr Essam … fisheries in the Bay of Bengal. More than half a million people depend on it for their livelihood, and 250 million Bengali people … Research, including by CAFOD and IIED, shows that a 'one-size-fits-all' replication of energy services is not the answer. In addition, …
Event, 03 June 2015
Women living in informal settlements in Harare (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
Co-production in urban areas: evolving form, enduring presence
… broadly. But as discussions in E&U highlight, definitions matter! Not all multi-agency or multi-partner collaboration is co-production. … may not even be needed to achieve co-production. Government staff have changed the way they see their role in service delivery … to who is being excluded and what the terms of inclusion are. People are the change process Changed relations that emerge from …
Insight, 24 October 2018