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Boji Drug Store: financed by the European Union through the Community Development Trust Fund (Photo: John Nyangena)
Funding local adaptation in Kenya: nationally vs. locally managed funds
… approaches - locally managed and nationally managed funds.   Recent research commissioned by IIED compared how funds under these two … same wards; this provides an excellent opportunity for comparison. Research findings: highlights Responsive to community needs To affect … change is of course a global challenge with localised impacts. The research showed how both these approaches, in different ways, can …
Insight, 04 December 2016
Delegates discuss the Hilsa Conservation Trust Fund at the Bangladesh workshop. The fund is part of work to enhance the effectiveness of incentive-based fisheries management (Photo: Essam Yassin Mohammed/IIED)
Conservation trust fund proposed to help Bangladesh increase fish stocks
… learnings on fisheries management. We welcome the learnings from this research project and look forward to using them to make the government …
News, 11 June 2015
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NGOs as Market Actors: Roles and responsibilities in supporting small producers in low-income countries
… NGOs and identify some options for further dialogue and collaborative research. The focus was primarily on UK NGOs working in different roles … to the role of NGOs in markets ~• Identify existing networks and research agendas around this topic ~• Highlight gaps, research needs in current work related to this topic ~• Develop …
Publication, 01 March 2007
Cover for G03824.pdf
Mapping great ape conservation institutions and policies in Cameroon, Workshop Report
… a wide consultation workshop to share and enrich the results of a research study carried out to map the institutions that take care of …
Publication, 01 April 2014
A man transports logs by bicycle. Services provided by informal economies, such as small-scale logging, are often not integrated into plans for green growth (Photo: Jolien Schure/CIFOR, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Informal economy and green growth conference pinpoints need for new policy agenda
… Experts from government, civil society, businesses and research organisations gathered in London on 25 February to discuss how … economy in green and inclusive growth? '. It featured speakers from research, policy and practice, including from Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia … Green Economy Coalition, WIEGO, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the OECD's Sahel and West Africa Club. Eleven audio …
News, 31 March 2016
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Voices and Flavours from the Earth: Visualising Food Sovereignty in the Andes, Chapter 1
… Mali and Iran. The initiative is embedded in a participatory action research (PAR) process called ‘Democratising the governance of food and agricultural systems: Citizens rethinking food and agricultural research for the public good’. Each partner was invited to design and …
Publication, 01 June 2013
Nature being sidelined in efforts to fund adaptation to climate change
News, 09 March 2022
IIED is pleased to announce its new strategy for the period 2014-2019
IIED launches new five-year strategy
… IIED will build on our landmark work with partners on each of four research themes: climate change, natural resources, human settlements … can and must shape the global policy too. "We have always combined research and action, testing out big new ideas in practice, to assess …
News, 07 March 2014
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Informing dialogue on artisanal and small-scale mining in Tanzania. A thematic review of challenges and solutions
… and responsible sector. Priority challenges identified through local research and engagement include an unsupportive environment for …
Publication, 01 October 2017
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Clearing the fog: new tools for improving the credibility of impact claims
… the validity and credibility of qualitative impact statements. IIED research in Uganda shows that the methods of process tracing and …
Publication, 01 April 2016