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On a field trip to Dhamrai, course participants learned about the typical costs for installing and operating solar irrigation pumps to provide off-grid irrigation. (Photo: ICCCAD, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Enabling developing countries to effectively manage climate finance
… course on managing climate finance. The course is the first in a series of learning events designed to strengthen government capacities … Cooperation Agency (SIDA) . Further courses are planned on an annual basis.   IIED has published a detailed report about the course . The training programme is part of IIED's wider …
News, 13 May 2016
Illustration
Crucial conversations: our favourite five
… informs and strengthens our approach to communications. In our 2019 Annual Review we looked back at ways we explored new channels and … coming out of youth movements and kicked off a monthly Facebook blog series. We focused calls for blogs on the Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria … learn more about our year’s strongest achievements, download the full report . …
Insight, 10 March 2020
An image of youth climate leader Greta Thunberg on a mural, with her speech: "You all come to us young people for hope. This is all wrong"
Development and Climate Days 2019
… is an informal event held each year during the middle weekend of the annual  Conference of the Parties (COP)  to the  United Nations … change. But since then the context had altered.  Norton cited a series of challenges:  Carbon emissions are 4% higher than in 2015 The recent UNEP emissions gap report found that carbon emissions will need to decline at a rate of …
Event, 08 December 2019
Covers of top publications of 2020.
IIED's best of 2020: publications
… Since 2016, IIED has been working with EVALSDGs to co-publish a series of nine policy briefing papers on evaluation of the 2030 Agenda … settlement and compensation for stranded fossil fuel assets Research report Global efforts to combat climate change will require a transition … in one of Nairobi’s largest ‘slums’’ . 7 Delivering change: IIED annual review 2019 A nnual report IIED’s annual review published in …
Article, 23 December 2020
Wind turbines on the top of a hill
Is Davos signalling the end of business as usual?
… change are impossible to ignore. This week, the world is watching the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting to gauge how global leaders … work? Or is WEF simply ‘purpose-washing’ its agenda?  Also in the series Blog: We need more than business as usual, to leave no one behind … Croft   IIED has been looking at this broad area. Our recent blog series ‘ Profit with purpose: the role of business in achieving …
Insight, 21 January 2020
Title screen of the Life beyond maize film
IIED and Hivos film calls for life beyond maize in Zambia
… as a high level panel of experts for the CFS will launch a seminal report on food systems and nutrition on 11 October. 'Life beyond maize' … , in partnership with IIED and Hivos . The film is the first in a series of four films that will be made for the five-year 'Sustainable …
News, 10 October 2017
Four images of people from IIED's 2021 'super year' video, including a fisher hauling nets
IIED and the ‘super year’
… 2021 and 2022 that we will strategically align to. Read our blog series raising awareness and action on the interlinkages between … Adaptation to Climate Change Date : 14-18 June 2021  This annual conference took place online and enabled practitioners, … London Climate Action Week Date : 26 June – 4 July 2021 This online annual event brought together a world-leading array of climate …
Article, 02 February 2021
Schoolgirls and a teacher in a classroom
Pathways to learning – finding new ways to evaluate SDG progress
… The High Level Political Forum is an annual opportunity to follow up and review the 2030 Agenda on … Neha Rai, Barry Smith, Nick Brooks (2019), IIED  IIED has published a series of briefing papers discussing the importance of evaluation in …
Article, 15 July 2019
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Making financial training fun: the CAMPFIRE game (PLA 55)
… social accountability through full participation in agreeing annual priorities and budgets, and through regular (quarterly) feedback … Learning and Action (PLA, formerly PLA Notes) is the world's leading series on participatory learning and action approaches and methods. PLA …
Publication, 01 December 2006
In 2018 IIED welcomed colleagues from Brazil, Cameroon, India, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe to Communications Learning Week (Photo: Anne Schulthess/IIED)
Communications Learning Weeks
… IIED organises an annual workshop that brings together its own communications team with … on Communications Learning Week We encourage participants to report on what they have learned. A popular workshop session focuses on … place in 2011. Read the feedback of participants , including a series of video interviews .  Inspiring and informative At IIED we find …
Article, 07 July 2015