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Stakeholders, including IIED's Fitsum Weldegiorgis (right), brainstorm to provide actionable solutions to challenges facing women in ASM during a workshop in Ghana (Photo: Friends of the Nation)
IIED at the 2017 Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development annual meeting
… women's progress as mining and linked entrepreneurs, and to lead sustainable livelihoods. IIED senior researcher Fitsum Weldegiorgis … Tanzania and Madagascar, where IIED is working to support multi-stakeholder dialogue, promote local voices and explore innovations that … and metals play an important role in the national sustainable development agenda.  Get more information about the IGF's annual meeting …
Event, 16 October 2017
Four workshop participants are sitting at a table, discussing and writing things down on post-it notes.
Adequate housing for all: bridging the gap in Sierra Leone
… housing has not been given the relevance it deserves in national development.” Little progress has been made on a housing policy that can … constraints. The dialogue was a promising step towards a multi-stakeholder approach to transform housing policy in Sierra Leone, with … to UN-Habitat's Saidu Conteh, was “an opportunity for meaningful engagement, knowledge-sharing and action-oriented discussions.” The …
News, 04 April 2025
Water and gravity are used to separate and, ultimately, leave the diamonds (Photo: James McQuilken/@J_McQuilken)
Sustainable development and artisanal mining: time to broaden the ‘blood diamonds’ conversation?
… is produced by this sector. Aiming to ‘leave no one behind,’ the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a blueprint for action by governments, … the chance that ASM’s environmental management will be effective.   Engagement and communication are essential. Safeguarding the environment … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 03 December 2018
A man stands in front of a group of seated people outside answering questions
Partnerships and collaboration for a more responsible minerals sector
… on the conditions of workers in these supply chains. IIED's work on sustainable mineral markets targets government and private sector … Partnership for Responsible Minerals (EPRM) The EPRM is a multi-stakeholder partnership working to increase the proportion of … Keita from ASFA 21, Mali; and Lynn Gitu from IMPACT , Uganda). Engagement with the Global Battery Alliance’s Cobalt Action Partnership …
Article, 04 May 2021
Women with their backs to the camera bind together bamboo panels and lean them against a wall
Strengthening women’s leadership for climate action
… intersection with other forms of social exclusion to promote just and sustainable low-carbon development.   To make these linkages and promote … IIED and EnGen Collaborative will facilitate participatory multi-stakeholder dialogues to co-produce a conceptual framework to identify … through the conceptual framework, a literature review and stakeholder engagement in workshops, surveys, interviews, and Talanoa-style …
Project, 09 May 2022
The UK flag and the logo for the Sustainable Development Goals
Sustainable development in the UK – an issue for party manifestos?
… in the vanguard of government-led efforts to understand and promote sustainable development since the concept first gained widespread traction in the … 1990s. It was among the first countries to produce a comprehensive Sustainable Development Strategy in 1994 . An independent Sustainable … Sustainable development in the UK – an issue for party manifestos? …
Insight, 03 May 2017
A group of women stand and sit around a table discussing and adding information to a large piece of paper
Scaling up CRAFT and Fairmined initiatives for responsible gold in Honduras
… and to support socially responsible mining that contributes to local sustainable development. Honduras is a conflict-affected country with more than half … do? Building on our dialogue methodology , we led the first multi-stakeholder ASM dialogue process in Honduras to promote a national … Sustainable markets …
Project, 17 November 2021
Artisanal and small-scale mining stakeholders in Tanzania explore solutions to key challenges (Photo: Steve Aanu/IIED)
Using dialogue to extract sustainable solutions for artisanal and small-scale mining
… countries, the mining industry is often one of the biggest drivers of development and economic growth. But policy and planning initiatives … marginalised communities. Recognising the sector's role in advancing sustainable development is a major step forward. Recent initiatives … learnt to Tanzania IIED's dialogue approach, centring on active multi-stakeholder participation, is complex and inevitably hits stumbling …
Insight, 26 February 2018
IIED's Fitsum Weldegiorgis presents at the action dialogue on artisanal and small-scale mining in Tanzania (Photo: Steve Aanu)
'The time is right' for dialogue about sustainable ASM in Tanzania
… IIED's second country dialogue in a series of local multi-stakeholder dialogues  on ASM started in Tanzania in September 2016. The dialogue event followed months of intensive research and engagement conducted in collaboration with our national partners, … and good practices that demonstrate how ASM can be an engine for sustainable development in Tanzania.  Their reflections started at the …
Project, 19 January 2017
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Learning and action for community engagement against wildlife crime
… is IIED doing? The 'LeAP: Learning and Action Platform for Community Engagement Against IWT' project is funded by the UK government’s Illegal … coordinating the project and international events, and is leading the development and maintenance of the People not Poaching portal with … Learning and action for community engagement against wildlife crime …
Project, 30 October 2018