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Woman holding to mobile phones
Addressing gendered gaps in digital technology for a just and inclusive transition
Insight, 08 March 2023
Woman standing in water, fishing using a big netted basket.
Reflections on UNOC3 and strengthening coastal stewardship
… and failing their objectives.  Many new initiatives referenced 'just' or 'inclusive' transitions for coastal communities, but details on … Pacific. While still in its early stages, the fund aims to channel money through Indigenous governance systems to support people and …
Insight, 23 June 2025
People observe burnt down structures
Fire disaster makes more than 1,000 homeless in Freetown
… settlements are high Although the cause of the fire remains unknown, poor electrical installations or the extensive use of fire for outdoor … experience. This is a complete setback to my whole life because I just started my university education a few weeks ago. I have not even … burnt to ashes. “Now I am reduced to zero. I have nowhere else to get money for my fees, no money to buy dress for lectures and no house to …
Insight, 29 March 2021
Lots of people park their motorbikes to gather
Q&A: How COVID-19 is impacting rural Africans in the Sahel
… the case of T* in the neighboring village? They suspected he had been giving information to the army, so they went into his house and killed … A: The recent harvest has been mixed but overall, it was very poor, with not enough millet to feed people for the year ahead. You’ll … around Farakaye! But men young and old need to make money. You can’t just sit at home. People need something to do in the dry season, like …
Article, 26 May 2021
An image of villagers in a remote village in northern Bangladesh proudly displaying their first solar panel, purchased with a micro loan. Bangladesh aspires to be one of the world's largest solar providers (Photo: ILO in Asia and the Pacific, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Q&A: A shift in mindset for the LDCs
… view makes it very hard to think outside of the box and not just extrapolate ways of doing from the present. So the 15-year period … face in implementing the SDGs? SH:  The LDCs keep asking for more money – they see that as the biggest challenge. But for me, the biggest … from pollution and consumption left by developed countries. "We are poor, we need help" – that's the mindset that the LDCs have had for some …
Article, 03 June 2016
Covers of best publications 2021.
IIED's best of 2021: publications
… evidence that investing in nature delivers development outcomes for poor people, and enhancing dialogue between conservation and development … paper Recovery from COVID-19 provides a historic opportunity for giving greater voice to local people – especially women, youth, … $40 billion a year for their adaptation plans, but between 2014-18, just $5.9 billion of adaptation finance was received. Find out …
Article, 17 December 2021
Entrance to a garden
Taking stock: community responses to COVID-19 in cities
… with COVID-19 and who was most at risk. These skills are also just what is needed to map vulnerability to climate change impacts in … However local government can help in other ways – such as giving permission for the use of empty lots for urban agriculture, leave … are failing to provide the support that organisations of the urban poor desperately need to fight COVID-19. Few if any structure their …
Insight, 19 October 2021
Buenos Aires, Argentina: luxury skyscrapers contrast with a shanty town of small brick dwellings with aluminium roofs. It is estimated that 10 per cent of the city's population lives in informal settlements (Photo: Mark Edwards/IIED)
Facing an increasingly urban world
… focused on what Habitat III might deliver.   Habitat comes along just once every 20 years — IIED's David Satterthwaite , who spoke at the … local governance, to link up institutions representing the urban poor with town and city authorities, and to deliver resources … tenure and the potential to use that space to run businesses and earn money. The process which has led to the generation of the Habitat agenda …
Insight, 13 May 2016
CBA13 networking: IIED senior fellow and director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) Saleemul Huq in conversation with Susan Nanduddu, director of the Uganda-based African Centre for Trade and Development
CBA13: event highlights
… wa Wanavijiji , is the Kenyan federation of slum dwellers and urban poor people, and is made up of local groups from cities and towns across … adaptation. He says: "At the end of the day they are also affected – just like any other person. They have to be at the centre of climate … come to mobile auctions and supports local pastoralists to take part, giving them the opportunity to sell directly to buyers.  Thiongo says: …
Article, 04 April 2019
IIED director Camilla Toulmin enjoys the 12th D&C Days event at COP20 in Lima, Peru (Photo; Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre)
Zero-zero, dolphins and conversations for change
Insight, 11 December 2014