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UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa opens COP22 (Photo: Takver, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Q&A: Key decisions needed at COP22
Article, 11 November 2016
Cover for 10142IIED.pdf
Direct use values of climate-dependent ecosystem services in Isiolo County, Kenya
Publication, 01 February 2016
Cover for G04029.pdf
Climate Finance short course
Publication, 01 February 2016
Cover for G03470.pdf
Tipping the Balance: Policies to shape agricultural investments and markets in favour of small-scale farmers
… men, while respecting the environment? Oxfam and IIED collaborated on research to take a new look at the role of public policy and market … in Guatemala, Nigeria, Tanzania and the Philippines, supported the research. …
Publication, 01 December 2012
Kaleta Dam under construction in Guinea (Photo: Jamie Skinner/IIED)
Who should carry the financial risks in large private sector financed hydropower projects?
… for Sustainability Leadership  and IIED under the FutureDAMs research project led by the University of Manchester. The participants, … funds in managing the risks inherent in sustainable hydropower? This research will continue by further refining the analysis of risk, … available from climate finance is, to date, relatively small. The research will consider how such funds could be used to address …
Insight, 17 December 2018
A tanker delivers water to residents in Retiro, a shanty town in Buenos Aires (Photo: Mark Edwards)
Urban water and sanitation
… provision has focused on private versus public provision, but our research suggests that both private and publicly operated utilities are … Shack/Slum Dwellers International , to support community-led action research, leading towards city-wide strategies of sanitation upgrading … Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and Chinoyi (Zimbabwe). This action research has proceeded through: Situation analysis, drawing heavily on …
Project, 01 September 2014
Cover for G03842.pdf
Newsletter of the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights Sept 2014: special Issue on how poor people set their own poverty lines
… ACHR and IIED decided to challenge this with some bottom-up research into poverty in Asian cities. But instead of getting a few … and write up a paper, in the style of most conventional development research, this regional poverty study has been organised to create space …
Publication, 01 September 2014
A demonstration of solar PV products by the Energy and Environment Partnership in Tanzania's southern Iringa Region gathers an audience of all ages (Photo: EEP Southern and Eastern Africa, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Bringing solar out of the shadows
Insight, 20 February 2017
Cover for G04307.pdf
Women in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining: Challenges and opportunities for greater participation
… to understanding those challenges has been inadequate. With some research limitations, this paper takes a focused approach to …
Publication, 01 June 2018
Cover for G03654.pdf
From rapid to reflective: 25 years of Participatory Learning and Action (PLA 66)
… range of themes covered by the series over the years. Robert is a research associate at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), …
Publication, 01 September 2013