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Two women carrying farming tools
IIED's best of 2019: videos
… for a charity award . The video was part of a series of animations, all produced by the Nice and Serious agency , that focused on different … can support the health of the ocean and protect the livelihoods of people who depend on it. 3 Personal insight and promoting partners … of this commitment, we are increasingly challenging the need for our staff to travel to attend conferences, meetings and workshops, and the …
Insight, 06 January 2020
New construction sites for housing have been prepared by the government on the hillside above Nhon Hai, but the compensation isn't enough to let people move (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
If you want to go far, go together
… IIED staff and partners from Vietnam grappled with such questions last week … above Nhon Hai – but the government compensation isn't enough to let people move. However, the affected community has not stood by idly – … densely-settled urban areas. Location, cost and tenure security are all crucial: where people's livelihoods are tied to a particular place …
Insight, 24 June 2014
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 2 Sharing our limited experience for trainers: Participatory Rural Appraisal or Participatory Learning methods
… to the PRA/PALM method in 1989 at a 5-day camp conducted for the staff of its Microwatershed Project at Gulbarga. This was followed by another workshop at Talavadi Project where senior staff from all MYRADA projects participated. Since then the method has been used extensively in every area of MYRADA’s interaction with the people. Since this method integrates well with MYRADA’s overall …
Publication, 01 January 1988
For the first time, IIED has produced a bespoke online annual report (Photo: IIED/We are Tangerine)
2014 annual report: online and in print
… Governments, NGOs, businesses, communities and individuals alike all help to shape equity, sustainability and social justice. But a mix … national and international decision-making arenas, and bring people from different cultures and sectors to share perspectives and … half-decade. The online Annual Report includes filmed interviews with staff showing how the work of IIED and its partners is helping to ensure …
News, 11 November 2014
A partially obstructed drain in Gangtok city, Sikkim (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
Fieldnotes from two cities in India: learning about social learning and climate uncertainty
Insight, 21 July 2016
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Immersions in ActionAid (PLA 57)
… development decision makers (donors, government officials, NGO staff, academics etc.) to learn directly from poor people. ActionAid sees immersions as one way to influence decision … 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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Putting child rights and participatory monitoring and evaluation with children into practice: some examples in Indonesia, Nepal, South Africa and the UK (PLA 42)
… rights and participation; a project in Indonesia to train field staff in assessing children's rights; working with children in South … of development projects; and a scheme in the UK that helps young people set up and run projects in their area. This article was published … at practitioners, researchers, academics, students and activists. All articles are peer-reviewed by an international editorial board. …
Publication, 01 October 2001
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Putting biodiversity centre stage in government policy
… and research manager, explains: "Our mainstreaming work is all about considering development issues in key biodiversity strategies … concerns into development plans. Strategies for success We asked the people on the ground about the approaches they had taken and the … and agencies in the NBSAPs process, because they realised that many staff were not used to thinking about biodiversity as part of their …
News, 20 May 2016
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IIED's best of 2020: videos
… This 15-minute film tells the story of the people of Santurbán in Colombia: their connection with the páramo – the … of the institute’s focus on outstanding women in development as staff and partners instead celebrated the women who inspired them. From … videos are only a selection of the films we hosted during 2020. Watch all of these videos – and many more – on IIED's YouTube channel  and …
Insight, 30 December 2020
Early morning in Dogo, West Java, Indonesia: getting low-cost furniture ready for selling on the street corner (Photo: Ikhlasul Amal, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Formalising the informal
… Ghana to furniture makers in Indonesia, hundreds of millions of poor people trade, produce, live and work in the informal economy , beyond … Regulation and supportThe successes shared at the London meeting are all different. But they all acknowledge that formalisation is more than … base of so many economies. Sian Lewis  ( [email protected] ) is a staff writer in IIED's Communications Group. …
Insight, 30 March 2016