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New IIED director Dr Andrew Norton will focus on using the institute's expertise to shift policies and attitudes (Image: Andrew Norton)
IIED welcomes new director
… net greenhouse gas emissions while empowering the world's poorest people to transform their lives will profoundly change the way we think … 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, 30 June 2015
View of Harpan village of Panchase – the upstream of Phewa Lake (Photo: Amit Poudyal/IUCN)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Nepal
… Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) involves people using biodiversity and ecosystem services to adapt to the adverse … EbA, and to promote EbA at international level. More information and all the case studies sites are available via the main project page . …  to consult with communities and national and local government staff involved with the Mountain EbA project in Panchase. The findings …
Project, 26 June 2018
Forest landscape in northern Costa Rica. Natural capital accounting has shown the value of Costa Rica's forests and forest products (Photo: keltikee, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Natural capital accounting: six tips for engaging policymakers
… although this part of NCA is still experimental. NCA was unknown to all five in-country communication consultants working with IIED in … to be interested. It not only serves to find out how much these people know about NCA, but also gets their opinion on priority audiences … of each department, getting to know the right members of staff, and understanding who has to be talked to first, even if you'd …
Insight, 01 August 2016
A resettlement site in Guiuan, in the Philippines, almost three years after super typhoon Haiyan with 'temporary' shelters that have been adapted by residents (Photo: Elizabeth Parker)
Post-crisis urban planning: lessons from Southeast Asia
… grew the urban planning skills and knowledge of local government staff, as well as introducing them to useful tools, technologies and … should be a priority in subsequent planning activity so that local people are involved in making decisions that affect them, and can … task force would be to share discussions from a city-level forum with all stakeholders – and particularly the affected communities – so …
Insight, 06 December 2017
Brisetha Hendricks talking to conservancy members. As well as rhino, the Uibasen Twyfelfontein Conservancy has elephants, leopards, mountain zebras, kudu, gemsbok, ostrich, springbok, steenbok, duiker and klipspringer (Photo: Brisetha Hendricks)
Q&A: Community-based natural resource management is the future
… 'live for yourself' in the local Khoekhoegowab language. Some 230 people live on the conservancy, with a management committee of seven. … begin to speak about sustainability of any sort without considering all the elements that make up that issue. Communities are a very … to equal women representation in management, either as conservancy staff members or as conservancy management. Still, the voices heard …
Article, 15 November 2018
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Everyone at Sida should do an immersion! (PLA 57)
… have taken part in immersions. This account was written by two Sida staff members following their stay with a family affected by the 2004 … moving further and further away from having any direct contact with people living in poverty - in part a consequence of the shift towards … and the choice of language reflect the intensity of the experience. All of them illustrate the power of face-to-face dialogue and the …
Publication, 01 December 2007
Shahajat Ali shows a newspaper article describing the incentive-based hilsa conservation programme under the Department of Fisheries (Photo: BCAS)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Bangladesh
… Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) involves people using biodiversity and ecosystem services to adapt to the adverse … EbA, and to promote EbA at international level. More information and all the case studies sites are available via the main project page.   …  to consult with communities, NGOs, and national and local government staff on their perception of EbA effectiveness. The findings will be …
Project, 12 June 2018
A view of Shanghai's tall buildings
Cities’ development trajectories
… sense of a city’s development trajectory, we can use what we see; people, buildings and infrastructure (or lack of it). You do not need a … manufacturing and/or service centres for transnational corporations; all are likely to have high capacity information and communications … scarcely figures on this list; of the six cities that do figure, all were going down the rankings. Yet as the next blog will show, many …
Insight, 16 June 2020
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The Global Journey: a quest for reality (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 last of four articles in this section on staff selection, training and orientation. BOSSE KRAMSJO describes how … aimed at practitioners, researchers, academics and activists. All articles are peer-reviewed by an international editorial board. …
Publication, 01 December 2007
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IIED mourns long-term partner and friend Perween Rahman
… activist who devoted her life to improving the lives of people in Karachi’s poorest neighbourhoods. Since the 1980s, the Orangi … another. Karachi is a city torn apart by religious conflict but OPP staff were clear that — in their experience — most people did not want … to support improved sanitation strategies there. Because despite all I have written here about knowledge and power and land, Perween was …
News, 14 March 2013