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Community-driven development for water and sanitation in urban areas: its contribution to meeting the Millennium Development Goal targets
… to urban poor groups and that catalyse and support these groups’ own resources and capacities. And, as importantly, support these groups’ …
Publication, 01 April 2005
A typhoon hits shanties in Manila. Urban governments, which are already struggling to provide basic infrastructure services, also need to build resilience to climate change (Photo: Ernie Penaredondo/Global Water Partnership, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The SDGs and 'a new urban agenda'?
Insight, 08 September 2015
Trafficking of wildlife, driven by escalating demand for products such as elephant ivory, is a booming market worth US$19bn a year (Photo: Nonprofit Organizations via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
International push to tackle illegal wildlife trade risks missing potential of sustainable use
… and Central African Republic through the illicit trade of natural resources, including wildlife and wildlife products. Well-targeted law …
News, 11 February 2014
IIED's Krystyna Swiderska discusses the latest research on how indigenous people adapt to climate change at a side event at the 2016 UN climate conference in Marrakech (Photo: Teresa Corcoran/IIED)
Indigenous people use own knowledge to boost food yields despite climate change, research finds
News, 22 November 2016
IIED director Camilla Toulmin speaking at the 2014 Barbara Ward Lecture at the British Library (Photo: Julius Honnor/IIED)
Handing over the reins at a strong institution
… greater recognition of the big gap between current pressures on all resources, and where we need to be to stay within planetary boundaries. …
Insight, 01 December 2014
Richard Reeves uses Lego to illustrate in a video how inequality affects the American Dream, an example of Brookings' communications creativity (Image: Brookings Institution)
(Should) All systems go?
Insight, 17 November 2017
Lake Bogoria is home to one of the world's largest populations of Flamingos. It has been a protected reserve since 1973. The lake area was the traditional home of the Endorois people, who were forced to leave the area in the 1970s (Photo: Geoffroy Mauvais/IUCN)
It's time to end conservation injustice
… peoples, …especially their rights to lands, territories, and resources, and their right freely to consent to activities that affect …
Insight, 17 November 2014
A man points his finger at someone in a meeting room at a debate at a meeting on the sustainable development of the Amazon at Rio+20.
Five things we’ve learnt from Rio+20
… and valuation systems, which put a monetary worth on environmental resources, while the G77 collectively turned down EU efforts to … to lift people out of poverty through a better use of natural resources, and wouldn’t act as an anti-competitive brake on development, …
Insight, 03 July 2012
Images such as this of a culvert constructed to allow villagers to cross the River Mahenya in Kenya, but which proves insufficient at times of extreme rainfall, are often used to tell the story of climate change in Africa. But Fatima Denton will challenge that narrative in her Barbara Ward Lecture (Photo: Robin Wyatt, http://www.robinwyatt.org/photography/)
Room for optimism on Africa, the "hopeful" continent
Insight, 21 October 2014
"Paz" (peace) graffiti in Medellín, Colombia. The text to the right translates as "Mural in tribute to our victims of conflict" (Photo: Cathy McIlwaine)
New approach paves way to manage violence in cities in the global South
News, 15 October 2014