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Nairobi in Kenya is one of many fast-growing cities across Africa (Photo: Stuart Price/Make it Kenya, Creative Commons via Flickr)
African cities can raise more money. Kenya and South Africa offer useful lessons
… by 2050 . But local authorities across the continent don’t have the resources, powers or skill set to meet the growing demand for housing …
Insight, 31 October 2018
Informal housing in Addis Ababa. Ethiopia's cities are struggling to meet demand for affordable housing and settlements are growing (Photo: Olli Pitkänen, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The Ethiopian informal settlement jigsaw puzzle: an opportunity to re-sort the pieces?
Insight, 25 October 2018
Some of the publications published by IIED during 2016 (Image: Annette McGill/IIED)
IIED's best of 2016: publications
… It suggests that in many cases, local governments lack information, resources and, perhaps most importantly, political will.  Read more: …
Article, 02 January 2017
Cover for G01377.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 4 Information for food security planning: asking local people Case studies from Sudan and Mali
… to support it has been of a top-down data-orientated nature. Huge resources have been invested in ‘high tech’ methods of collecting …
Publication, 01 January 1988
A market takes place in the village of Tiogo next to the Tiogo Forest in Burkina Faso. With much of the food and hand crafts on sale from the forest, the community is dependent on the conservation of the forest to maintain their livelihoods (Photo: CIF Action, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Towards a fairer future for conservation
… ([email protected]) is a senior researcher in IIED's Natural Resources research group . This blog was originally posted by Mongabay . …
Insight, 05 September 2016
Cover for G01755.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 12 Participatory monitoring and evaluation in flood proofing pilot project, CARE-Bangladesh
Publication, 01 January 1998
Cover for G01793.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 2 Using participatory research methods to explore the learning environment of rural primary school pupils
… implementation of primary education teaching and learning practices, resources, ... …
Publication, 01 January 1998
Cover for G02100.pdf
Participatory methods and the measurement of well-being. In PLA 50
… need was greatest and prevent better-off families from `capturing' resources. This has led to a growing recognition of the importance not …
Publication, 01 October 2004
A group of people line up in front of a mountain background.
Building green and inclusive energy
… Supply Monitoring Initiative (ESMI) , in collaboration with the World Resources Institute (WRI) and Prayas Energy Group (PEG) . By placing …
Project, 01 October 2020
Ploughshare and radiated tortoises that have been seized in Bangkok will be among the case studies presented at a wildlife crime symposium in South Africa (Photo: Panjit Tansom/TRAFFIC)
Symposium examines how communities can be helped to combat wildlife crime
… communities , by Dilys Roe , principal researcher in IIED’s Natural Resources Group . The publication features case studies looking at …
News, 20 February 2015