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Seeing like a young citizen: youth and participatory governance in Africa (PLA 64)
… some of the methods of communication, appraisal, monitoring and research which are involving these young people in decision-making …
Publication, 01 December 2011
Man crouching next to a crop bed.
Significant new support for locally led adaptation principles
… and Tebtebba (the Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Policy Research and Education). Their ask to the international community is …
News, 08 November 2021
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TAMD Addis Ababa Feb 23-26, 2015 Workshop Report
… lessons from the TAMD pilot phase. The workshop brought together research partners from each of the eight TAMD pilot countries, …
Publication, 01 March 2015
A CCAFS and CIAT participatory photography project in Chiquimula, Guatemala. A framework on how to monitor and evaluate social learning approaches is now available. (Photo: Gian Betancourt/CIAT, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Paper outlines framework to monitor and evaluate social learning approaches
… social learning approaches are increasingly being used in development research, there is still a lack of robust evidence on the best methods … and Food Security (CCAFS) , IIED and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) , that does research on social learning's usefulness, while making methodologies and …
Insight, 13 February 2015
A six-minute film recorded in the Mathare settlement, Narobi, in late April 2015 shows some of the main challenges faced by food vendors living and working inside low-income informal settlements (Image: Paolo Cravero/IIED)
Informal food vendors: urban food security's invisible experts
… Unit  –  set out to fill this gap and redefine policy priorities. The research involved vendors, their customers and the settlement's … Paolo Cravero ([email protected]) is a researcher looking at research and outreach on consumption, urbanisation and food systems. …
Insight, 24 June 2015
A road in Kibera informal settlement
Climate activism and cities: a shared agenda
… South and North. Urban communities respond to the climate challenge Research (PDF)  undertaken by IIED and SDI for C40 discusses SDI’s work …
Insight, 07 February 2020
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Liberalisation, Gender, and Livelihoods: the cashew nut case, Working Paper 2: Mozambique Phase 2- The South
… with partners in Mozambique and South India, has developed a research programme on gender, markets and livelihoods in the context of … economic liberalisation on poverty reduction and gender equality. The research focuses on the cashew sectors in Mozambique and India. India is … and also the biggest buyer of Mozambican raw nuts. In Mozambique, research was carried out in two provinces, Nampula in the North (the …
Publication, 01 November 2003
An orangutan swinging between trees
Addressing the interplay between agribusiness investments and ape conservation
… and implementation of national and international rules . In-country research and policy engagement in Cameroon and Borneo identified ways to …
Project, 10 October 2014
The new OpenLandContracts.org database contains the details of publicly available investment contracts from around the world (Image: Columbia Centre for Sustainable Investment (CCSI))
Opening up land contracts
… problems. It is difficult to know the reality of the situation (or do research) without access to data. But more importantly, the contracts … be able to see how other contracts have addressed similar issues.  Research can provide a vehicle for identifying good practice and …
Insight, 20 October 2015
Champion of urban climate action Debra Roberts will deliver IIED's 2016 Barbara Ward Lecture. Click the image to apply to attend the event (Image: IIED)
Jack of all trades, master of the urban agenda
… ever return to academia, but her frustration at the gap between the research and her experiences drove her back. "Researchers would come and … from having studied environmental philosophy as part of her doctoral research. "I realised that you cannot save the world, that no individual …
News, 14 September 2016