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A farmer in Tattaguine, Senegal benefits from an irrigation project. IIED is advocating for the Green Climate Fund to speed up the process of getting finance to local levels, those who need it most (Photo: Ryan Kendrick Smith, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Q&A: a message to the Green Climate Fund board
Article, 10 October 2016
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Gender analysis in building climate resilience in Da Nang, Vietnam: challenges and solutions
… Climate resilience is more likely to be achieved when men and women … This study looks at what roles men and women play in climate change planning and action, and to what extent women’s needs and … 2012, were examined through the gender lens by conducting a series of stakeholder consultations and household interviews. The results indicate …
Publication, 01 June 2016
COP22 side events
IIED and partner events at COP22
… of the Parties (COP22) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took place in the Moroccan city of Marrakech from … IIED is a lead partner in the ecbi, along with Oxford Climate Policy. The training and support programme organises pre-COP workshops … Climate change … UN climate change conference (COP22) …
Event, 05 November 2016
Colombia's government and left-wing insurgents sign a historic agreement ending 52 years of conflict. Some commentators suggest the peace process has opened the way for major progress on the SDGs (Photo: Gobierno de Chile, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)
SDGs: from adopted framework to political force for change
… the goals have received little public attention, which is unlikely to change as the Brexit fallout continues to dominate political discourse.  … However, people around the world are pushing for concerted action on climate change, economic and social inequality, and environmental … over sustainability concerns) on the other.   Aligning existing policy initiatives and cycles and SDG action makes a real difference: …
Insight, 17 February 2017
An African man makes a speech in front of a banner in Chinese
Our previous work on China
… for IIED to go further with partners and find tangible points of engagement on sustainability issues linked to the ' China in the world ' … approaches to sustainable agriculture in China through case studies, stakeholder meetings and policy advocacy. Read related publications: ' … strengthening biocultural systems for food security in the face of climate change in China through research and policy advocacy within …
Article, 01 August 2019
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Q&A: Strengthening community voices to tackle illegal wildlife trade in Tanzania and Zambia
… on the IIED-led 'LeAP: Learning and Action Platform for Community Engagement Against IWT' project, funded by the UK government’s Illegal … place. For example, we’ve seen an increasing need to look at how climate change and human-wildlife conflict are impacting motivations to engage …
Article, 24 March 2022
Nepal’s Rukum district is highly vulnerable to landslides and extreme rainfall variations. TAMD feasibility work has tested specific tools for evaluating climate change adaptation and made them relevant to the Nepalese context. (Photo: Susannah Fisher/IIED)
The Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development (TAMD) framework
… of how widely and how well countries or institutions manage climate risks (Track 1) and how successful adaptation interventions are … and right down to local projects. It can assess whether climate change adaptation leads to effective development and also how … in the agency, and As a tool for supporting partner countries in policy, plan or programme design or evaluation. NGOS could also use TAMD …
Article, 28 October 2014
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Our other sites and networks
… An interactive online policy platform on nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation Website Green Economy Coalition 2011 - ongoing A … page Race to the top 2002 – 2003 A project based on constructive engagement between an alliance of organisations and the major UK …
Page, 30 September 2022
A group of young women protestors with placards, one reading "Your profits can't buy another planet"
Ten reasons why we have to rewrite the sustainability rule book, and now
Insight, 08 December 2019
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IIED's best of 2021: publications
… jobs, food security and empowerment as well as resilience to climate change.   Overall, we found a wealth of evidence that investments in … pandemic’s impacts in urban areas, this issue paper outlines a set of policy priorities and develops a framework with guiding principles for …
Article, 17 December 2021