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The importance of communication for NGOs
… Learning Week . We are still inspired and invigorated from all the learning, teaching and interacting with different people and organisations.  Since then, everywhere we turn – from the … weeks like this are crucial for NGOs who want to upskill their staff in particular areas of communication that are important to them …
Insight, 27 April 2022
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Article, 13 January 2021
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Learning together boosts confidence and better communications
… IIED’s Communications Learning Week  is always a great event: new people to meet, all kinds of knowledge and experience shared, and lots of learning opportunities for everyone. The week brings staff responsible for communications from our partners in the global …
Insight, 22 November 2019
Camp site with several informal tents made of fabric and plastic.
Are humanitarian agencies starting from scratch again in Haiti?
… that ranged from writing building codes to creating maps and training people. In 2021, are Haiti, or the agencies supporting Haiti, any better … of rebuilding after another major earthquake? What happened to all the learning, the data, the people and the tools? First response We … It happens routinely in projectised environments, with short-term staff and activities. Agencies collect and produce vast data which is …
Insight, 24 October 2021
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Helping Indigenous communities secure land rights in Nepal
… been living and farming on for generations, or they have no land at all and are either tenant farmers or are farming on government land … and disenfranchised group in Nepal. Because of their status, Tharu people and Dalits often do not have legal title to their lands, which … to its completion.  At the inception of the project, CSRC’s field staff mobilised community members to come together and draw detailed ' …
Article, 18 December 2020
The cracked mud of a dried-up reservoir bed, with a dead river-mussel shell in the foreground and an abandoned boat in the background
Strengthening development in the face of the climate crisis and environmental destruction
… as Sida is finding. 3. Develop capacity and skills A network of staff or community of practice expert in environment and climate, as in … are interdisciplinary skills and holistic perspectives, which help all staff to embrace many cross-cutting issues. 4. Improve … can stimulate demand for environment integration – and gain local people’s perspectives. 5. Support environment mainstreaming in …
Insight, 31 October 2019
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IIED at 50: making IIED future fit
… justice and migrant justice. It is a movement of movements because all these issues are interconnected. Dismantling these power imbalances … This includes bringing in more experts from the global South and people who aren’t traditionally invited to these tables – just as IIED … organisations, how we engage with donors and the make-up of our staff – all things I know we are thinking about. Another area IIED could …
Article, 20 December 2021
A group of women laugh and smile as they stand and dip their hands into two large buckets on a table
Starting a journey – reflections on race and racism and the work to do in our organisations and our sector
… are skewed in ways that empower white Northern actors and disempower people of colour both in Northern environments where many organisations … embodies power relations that disadvantage Southern partners.   Above all, the outcomes of global development processes are profoundly unequal … senior representation Held organisational-wide discussions on how our staff feel racism is impacting our organisation and ways or working …
Insight, 15 December 2021
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Putting gender, intersectionality and social justice at the centre of transformative responses to climate change
Insight, 19 May 2021
Two women wearing masks hand over a bag to another woman wearing a mask
Q&A: Two years on, blog series maintains its focus – in changing and challenging times
… This has encouraged grassroots organisations and senior government staff (who would not usually write for an academic journal) to … A Tuazon drew on discussions with community leaders from the Homeless People’s Federation of the Philippines in Batasan, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, … to food and reaching those most in need – the focus of ' Feeding all city inhabitants ' by Cecilia Tacoli, and featuring prominently in …
Article, 09 May 2022