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Immersion as a form of apprenticeship at PRADAN (PLA 57)
… Immersions can have a huge impact on individual people. While this impact can be powerful and highly intense, it remains … purposes. This is the first of four articles in this section on staff selection, training and orientation. Here, staff from PRADAN … aimed at practitioners, researchers, academics and activists. All articles are peer-reviewed by an international editorial board. …
Publication, 01 December 2007
Miners from the Tanga region in northern Tanzania participating in discussions about how to make ASM in Tanzania more sustainable (Photo: Steve Aanu)
Mining dialogue paves the way for change
… how the dialogue was effective in breaking down barriers and changing people's views about the ASM sector. The spirit of change is loud and … participated in the dialogue, including artisanal miners, local NGO staff, journalists and representatives of large mining conglomerates.  … with different backgrounds, and different responsibilities, but all meeting together to try and brainstorm and find out solutions." She …
News, 05 February 2018
Workers digging zaï pits that help to preserve water on farms (Photo: IUCN)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Burkina Faso
Project, 02 January 2019
Although aid agencies provide emergency help in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, only long-term planning can deal with the wider environmental stresses (Photo: Caroline King-Okumu/IIED)
Unblocking the cycle of water stress, crises and innovation in the Bekaa Valley
… stresses in urbanising dryland regions can reduce human wellbeing. People in the drylands face many short and long-term environmental … These problems can concentrate in and around urban areas . All too often, vulnerable people are wrongly blamed for creating … new opportunities as well as challenges, as additional experienced staff were seconded into local government offices and survey work on …
Project, 04 January 2017
Lots of people park their motorbikes to gather
Q&A: How COVID-19 is impacting rural Africans in the Sahel
Article, 26 May 2021
Dr Andrew Norton will take on the role as IIED director from 29 June (Photo: Andrew Norton)
IIED's new director takes on the post-2015 agenda
… ago, the institute was much smaller and less visible, with just 60 people and a budget of £5m. Today, staffing levels have doubled and … opportunity to build on the great work Camilla has done with IIED's staff and partners to position the organisation at the forefront of … the world, shaping the key issues which determine the future of us all.  IIED's organisational strategy identifies four major trends and …
News, 23 March 2015
A researcher speaks to a cotton farmer in Mozambique.
Our research: striving towards excellence
… All too often, the people who make decisions and implement projects lack … to field locations; working with marginalised, vulnerable or mobile people; needing to make decisions and recommendations quickly to respond to policy-making windows. Over the last few years, IIED staff and partners have been working together to identify the key …
Insight, 13 September 2012
Woman digging a hole in the forest
Reimagining solutions to India’s water challenge: the art of governance
… 1950, water availability per family has fallen by 70% and 600 million people face acute water shortage. India, the UK and the Netherlands are … between India’s central, state and sectoral priorities, limited staff and budget, and signs of emerging conflict over water sharing … side water efficiency and participatory management. And by helping us all – government actors, donors and technical advisers – to reimagine …
Insight, 20 January 2021
Farmers looking at plants
Nature 4 Development – introducing IIED’s new 2020 initiative
… are making links between biodiversity and development. Most, if not all, the organisations that attended our meeting (including ActionAid, … protect marine biodiversity and because of its health impacts on poor people in developing countries. Farm Africa is working on ecosystem … or – if you are UK-based – come over to your workplace and give your staff a presentation on the initiative, and If you’d like to join the …
Insight, 29 January 2020
IIED researchers in Uganda: "IIED works with small and medium sized enterprise (SMEs), municipal governments, pastoral communities, representatives of urban poor federations, smallholder farming groups, and other poorly represented interests" (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Reflections on my time as IIED director
… basis), the institute was much smaller and less visible. With 60 people and a budget of £5m, the organisation had been losing influence … we thought through the implications of climate change for work across all our programmes. Saleemul Huq led this process, making the case for … Offering an innovative and attractive environment for committed staff – keeping the strengths of the organisation's idiosyncratic and …
Insight, 05 March 2015