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IIED's animation about the way it works in partnership includes a focus on a project in Uganda to deliver fresh food systems (Image: IIED/NAP Design)
New video highlights how IIED's partnerships deliver change
… with partners on issues such as food security, securing land rights, sustainable urban development and international climate change negotiations. The … 2015 IIED commissioned an animation about the Sustainable Development Goals . This three-minute film told the story of the goals from the …
News, 12 January 2017
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Global Multi-stakeholder Partnerships
… for scaling up innovation, resources and action to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). MSPs (also referred to as cross-sector partnerships) span …
Publication, 01 February 2015
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Pro-poor, inclusive green growth: experience and a new agenda
… change envisioned by the global community and outlined in the Sustainable Development Goals. The ‘Pro poor, inclusive green growth’ report demonstrates how …
Publication, 01 May 2016
A group of people gather around a pile of potatoes with mountains as a backdrop
Indigenous Peoples’ food systems hold the key to feeding humanity
… insecure , underscoring the immense challenge of achieving the second Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of zero hunger by 2030. The food systems of the … or unproductive – but evidence  shows they are highly productive, sustainable and equitable. These systems preserve rich biodiversity, …
Insight, 23 October 2020
A market takes place in the village of Tiogo next to the Tiogo Forest in Burkina Faso. With much of the food and hand crafts on sale from the forest, the community is dependent on the conservation of the forest to maintain their livelihoods (Photo: CIF Action, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Towards a fairer future for conservation
… the United Nations triumphantly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its associated Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – a positive and ambitious vision seeking to end poverty, …
Insight, 05 September 2016
Young people in Okola, Cameroon, cluster around a Global Positioning System that they are using to create a community map with geographical features.
Future world: addressing the contradictions of planet, people, power and profits
… growth is becoming largely an urban phenomenon. Getting city development ‘right’ will make a difference to equality, prosperity and … framed by the post-2015 development agenda , and in particular the UN Sustainable Development Goals , currently being negotiated by the world’s governments. We gave … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 07 June 2013
A new sanitation block being constructed in Kibera settlement, Nairobi, Kenya. Most of Kibera's residents don't have access to electricity or running water (Photo: Sustainable Sanitation, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Finance for whom and for what?
… in Addis Ababa for the 3rd international conference on Financing for Development . A draft (PDF)  for the Addis Ababa Accord (a global framework for financing sustainable development) is out.  If this was the first document you had … what is currently achieved? And to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ?  What do they have to do and how should this be done? How …
Insight, 31 March 2015
Women selling fish in Nyakrom, Central Ghana. The food economy is the largest informal sector in West Africa (Photo: aripeskoe2, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Green grows the informal economy
… From green economy plans to the Sustainable Development Goals, ambitions for growth have the word 'inclusive' built into them. … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 10 March 2016
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Sanitation and drainage in cities II
… light of the failure to reach the sanitation target of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), this issue of Environment and Urbanization explores … discussion around how to ensure the stronger performance of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, as the editorial points …
Publication, 01 October 2015
Meceburi Forest, Mozambique: a young woman harvests casava (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)
Seeds of the post-capitalist forest?
… attended an unusually lively conference on tropical forests and sustainable development at Yale University  exploring how different local … those connected them, might be boosted by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris climate agreement. SDGs for the trees Local …
Insight, 11 February 2016