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A seated man cleaning a crutch.
Disability, inclusion and cities: can COVID-19 trigger change?
… online teaching, having to modify learning materials and cope without sign language support. Unequal access to government support: in Sierra … delivered water, food parcels and face masks (transparent masks for sign language users) to disabled people in low-income communities. Both … collaborators. They also show how community organisations can scale up inclusive interventions by collaborating with other organisations and …
Insight, 01 October 2020
A ruined house on a hillside, surrounded by mud and rocks.
Climate change and modern slavery: the nexus that cannot be ignored
… information about Anti-Slavery International,  visit its website , sign up to emails , or email [email protected] …
Insight, 08 June 2022
Squamish river, Canada. Under Stephen Harper, Canada has lagged behind the rest of the world in combating climate change; will new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau make a difference? (Photo: James Wheeler, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Will new leadership boost Canadian contribution to global climate negotiations?
Insight, 21 October 2015
Cattle drinking water from a lake
Lessons from Paris: global biodiversity framework must engage business, grow finance
Insight, 11 May 2021
Satellite image of the zinc, lead and silver mine in Cerro de Pasco, Peru.
Report scopes sustainability of China-Latin America relations
… all Chinese investment. And while China’s Industrial Bank has signed up to the Equator Principles -- by which banks can manage environmental … endorse the Principles. National standards developed in China may end up being far more important – and having more legitimacy – than … the types of investments it allows. While Chinese investors have set up new companies and projects in Peru that are fully Chinese owned, or …
News, 09 May 2013
Cover for G03343.pdf
EITI and beyond: Perspectives from Azerbaijan
… The government of Azerbaijan formally signed up to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in …
Publication, 01 March 2012
Woman digging a hole in the forest
Reimagining solutions to India’s water challenge: the art of governance
… a range of government programmes and schemes, which are often set up to deliver universal technical solutions. Within these schemes, there … powers that allow them to experiment with and then scale up workable good practice in water resource management. It would aim to … and also provides sight to longer term finance for scale-up. Institutional legacy : support innovation in governance arrangements …
Insight, 20 January 2021
People use the pavement on Boulevard Richard Lenoir, close to the Bataclan concert venue which was the focus of the Paris attacks on 13 November, 2015, to share messages of support, and hope (Photo: Gael_Lombart, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
French lead drive for global climate agreement
… minister Laurent Fabius has been active – most recently pulling up US Secretary of State Kerry for suggesting that the Paris outcome … degrees and 3 degrees by 2100). But it is a start – and the 'bottom up' process of building on national plans is a new kind of global action … anything else, it is not reasonable to expect small island states to sign up to a 2 degree goal which threatens their long-term existence. It …
Insight, 17 November 2015
Cover for G03222.pdf
Introduction to the EITI and principles of good governance in the oil and gas sector
… companies to declare what they pay. Turkmenistan has not yet signed up to EITI. At a workshop on 28th September 2011 participants discussed …
Publication, 01 December 2011
Oxen plough a field in Ethiopia.
African land deals: Is a policy shift underway?
… parties. In many African countries, it is typically governments that sign the deals and make land available to investors. In fact, many … addressed. But the recent shifts in government policy are a promising sign that, in some countries at least, there may now be more space to … organisations helping their members have a voice NGOs keeping up the pressure and seizing the new policy openings development agencies …
Insight, 15 July 2013