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Delivery models for decentralised rural electrification: case studies in Nepal, Peru and Kenya
… reliable and clean energy is fundamental for poverty reduction and sustainable development; without it, the Millennium Development Goals cannot be achieved. Electrification, along with access to modern …
Publication, 01 June 2012
A large number of people, with backs to the camera, are seated around a table. On the tables there are cards indicating which countries they represent
Reviewing climate action: the hidden key for greater ambition
Insight, 23 August 2021
Immaculate Yossa is regional advocacy officer for Eastern Africa at Hivos. She discussed key messages from multi-stakeholder action at the Uganda Food Lab (Photo: Food and Agriculture Organisation, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Achieving real transformation in our food system
… made in relation to food. The outlook is grim. To ensure we reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2030 we need a dramatic change. Success will depend on …
Insight, 23 October 2018
An image of crouching community members in a village in Champasak province, Laos identify areas where open defecation is taking place ahead of implementing sanitation measures (Photo: Viengsompasong Inthavong/World Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
An urban approach to 'leaving no one behind'
… ' leave no one behind ' is one of the most memorable pledges from the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, understanding its potential to generate …
Insight, 02 June 2016
The case study for Manizales, in Colombia, in a new book edited by IIED's David Satterthwaite focuses on innovative community-oriented environmental policy and a commitment to disaster risk reduction (Photo: Melissa Delzio, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Can we transform our cities?
Insight, 19 April 2016
Achim Steiner on the UN's expectations for Rio+20
… Sustainable development has “gotten stuck over the past 20 years” and the internal UN Commission on Sustainable development “hasn’t provided the framework” needed to track … in future. The final challenge is to set sustainable development goals with concrete targets and objectives with a common agenda, but …
News, 02 April 2012
Buenos Aires, Argentina: luxury skyscrapers contrast with a shanty town of small brick dwellings with aluminium roofs. It is estimated that 10 per cent of the city's population lives in informal settlements (Photo: Mark Edwards/IIED)
Facing an increasingly urban world
… possible reason is the timing. The new global goal framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)  and the breakthrough global legal treaty on combating …
Insight, 13 May 2016
Seaweed farming in Nusa Lembongan, Bali, is an example of an alternative livelihood project (Photo: Yeowatzup via Creative Commons)
IIED's best of 2014: blogs
… and IIED consultant researcher Mike Day. "Unless you offer a viable sustainable alternative livelihood, then any other intervention is … Seven papers unpick debates on African agriculture and rural development October: To mark World Food Day on 15 October, IIED, ODI and … to a green one also poses challenges" Can we change the goals of development without changing the implementers? July: The latest …
Article, 31 December 2014
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IIED's best of 2020: publications
… life’ introduction to evaluating progress on the 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is based on emerging country experience from North and …
Article, 23 December 2020
Tidal damage on the small island nation of Kiribati. Small island developing nations, especially the atoll nations of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, are among the poorest and most vulnerable to climate change (Photo: Jodie Gatfield, AusAID)
Paris Agreement must stand on three pillars
Insight, 01 June 2015