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Village councils or panchayats have not been involved in India's approach to the SDGs so far (Photo: UN Women Asia and the Pacific)
Are citizens being left behind by India's approach to the SDGs?
… Syed A A Farhan are part of the policy analysis and communications team at Development Alternatives. Their research on the implementation … including from NITI Aayog, the Ministry of the Environment, Forest and Climate Change, the Ministry of Urban Development, civil …
Insight, 26 September 2016
Farmers in Guangxi and Yunnan provinces in Southwestern China have responded to climatic adversity by innovating to increase productivity using less water (Image: IIED)
Why listen to and support the most vulnerable?
… poorest communities to find ways out of poverty (as for example with forest farmers in Vietnam ) can provide a win-win solution.   There is … research associate with IIED's Climate Change Group and biodiversity team. This blog draws on work by IIED's Reid, Krystyna Swiderska , …
Insight, 02 October 2015
The Bailique community, mainly artisanal fishermen and forest users near the Amazon River, have established the first community protocol in Brazil (Photo: Roberta Ramos)
Brazil's first community protocol: the Bailique experience
… The coastal forest community of Bailique in the northern Brazilian Amazon has … between 51 smaller communities, are mainly artisanal fishermen and forest users, and depend on natural resources. These communities still … given by them were also circulated to households. A 'support team', made up of young people from the community, helped with this, …
Insight, 25 August 2015
This bridge crossing the Yorkin river in the Sixaola Basin is used daily by local communities, including children on their way to school in the early morning. (Photo: Paul Aragón,©IUCN)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Costa Rica
… leading newspaper in Costa Rica in terms of circulation/reach.  The team applied the EbA Evidence and Policy project's  framework for a …
Project, 13 December 2018
The data for Chinchiná river basin water accounts will be collected in 2015. Making Colombian decision makers interested in using the data requires focused, relevant communication that responds to their priorities (Photo: Rosalind Goodrich/IIED)
Reminder to self: information supply needs to be driven by demand
… first of the 'tell all' option. I was there with the World Bank WAVES team to develop a communication and engagement strategy around promoting … I realised that if we wanted the results from compiling national forest accounts and from water accounts for the Lake Tota watershed to …
Insight, 23 February 2015
Delegates at CBA12 in Malawi gather around a table and write on a document
CBA13: galvanising locally-based adaptation in a crunch year for climate action
… a Ugandan small-holder farmer, an economist from Nepal’s ministry of forest and environment, and two water and livestock officers from local … now The following year, at CBA12 in Malawi , I was part of the core team that reshaped CBA. Taking on board feedback from the CBA community, …
Insight, 22 January 2019
Seaweed farming in Nusa Lembongan, Bali, is an example of an alternative livelihood project (Photo: Yeowatzup via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Are "alternative livelihoods" projects effective?
… our results in a follow-up blog this summer. Mike Day is a consultant researcher at CIFOR and IIED. …
Insight, 04 February 2014
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 6 Evaluation of an animal health improvement programme in Nepal
… are selected by community development projects run by the UMN and The team collected background information other organisations, and come … the location of houses, 350 VAHWs have been trained and the crops, forest, grazing areas, grazing areas trainees have been followed-up to …
Publication, 01 January 1994
People participating in a workshop.
Development and Climate Days 2020
… DRR thematic lead, Practical Action Nepal; Aditya Bahadur, principal researcher, IIED; Ha Thi Quynh, policy advocacy and public relations, … Fauna & Flora International; Dilys Roe, principal researcher and team leader, Natural Resources, IIED; Natalie Seddon, professor of … National Biodiversity Institute; Vu Ley Y Voan, senior advisor, Forest and Farm Facility, Viet Nam Farmers’ Union The world is facing …
Event, 02 December 2020
A Conservancy Rhino Ranger in Namibia stands proudly before a cow and calf that he has tracked during a patrol. Rhino sightings have increased over the past 12 months thanks to an expanded Rhino Ranger force and support organisations (Photo: Minnesota Zoo and Save the Rhino Trust)
Community solutions are the key to tackling wildlife crime
… and economic development – for example through tourism or trade in forest products. Depletion of this asset as a result of illegal trade … are incredibly timely and relevant." Dr Dilys Roe, biodiversity team leader at the International Institute for Environment and …
News, 02 March 2015