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Strategic Environmental Assessment: A rapidly evolving approach
… This paper provides an overview of the international status of strategic environmental … in both developed and developing countries, Eastern Europe and development assistance agencies, and considers parallel processees that … have relevance to emerging SEA techniques: environmental scenarios, sustainable development strategy processes, etc. …
Publication, 01 January 2000
Many flags
IIED and partner events at COP25
… UNFCCC process. The workshop combined presentations that give a broad overview of COP25 and the diplomatic landscape with brief looks at the … These investments can make an important contribution towards the Sustainable Development Goals. However, developing and financing dams in a …
Event, 02 December 2019
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Dispute or Dialogue? Community perspectives on company-led grievance mechanisms
… company-led grievance mechanisms – their effectiveness and impact on sustainable development and livelihoods locally – IIED sought to address this. The book provides an overview of recent trends in the design and use of grievance mechanisms …
Publication, 01 March 2013
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IIED's best of 2020: videos
… than ever there was an increased focus on using video to communicate sustainable development issues.  But while innovation and creatively were still to … the form of narrated lectures, as in the video above that provides an overview of IIED’s Money Where it Matters framework , or over a series …
Insight, 30 December 2020
Workers at the Dakete Gold Mine explain health and safety procedures in a powdering station. The IIED dialogue aimed to engage key stakeholders, including mineworkers, in a conversation about the future of ASM mining in Ghana (Photo: Friends of the Nation)
ASM dialogue creates ambition for change in Ghana
… , which was the basis for the dialogue discussions, provides an overview of the ASM sector, identifying the barriers to formalisation, … and food sellers all depend on the mines. Formalising ASM is a development opportunity  Following the field visits the research team, … We highlighted that formalising Ghana's ASM sector is a pressing development opportunity that must be realised, that empowering women and …
Insight, 15 September 2016
Justice in the Forests: six online films and webinar from IIED
… from around the world. The film selection includes 5 or 20 minute overview films and country specific films from Ghana , Malawi , Uganda … of the European Union (EU) and the UK Department for International Development (DFID). [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip1oEU8ZOhg] …
News, 19 April 2011
Three men stand on a bridge over an open culvert
Q&A: Monitoring climate change adaptation
Article, 06 December 2019
A rally protesting against the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) takes place in Wellington, New Zealand (Photo: Neil Ballantyne, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
The rise of civil society advocacy on investment treaties in Malaysia and the Philippines
… IIED legal tools team leader Lorenzo Cotula, who provided a brief overview of investment treaties, and why they matter.   Engaging civil … solicitor and legal tools consultant at IIED, focusing on law and sustainable development. Additional materials  The following IIED handbook and …
Insight, 26 March 2015
Some of the publications produced by IIED during 2015 (Image: IIED)
IIED's best of 2015: publications
… change on Least Developed Countries: are the SDGs possible? The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set the United Nations' development agenda beyond 2015. But climate change impacts will render …
Article, 31 December 2015
A London workshop heard about the human stories of gold mining from artisanal and small-scale miners in Tanzania (Photo: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)
Bright prospects for mining sector dialogue
… to improve artisanal and small-scale mining's (ASM) contribution to sustainable livelihoods.  The 40-plus participants, bought together by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) in a workshop, included government ministers, … workshop' in London, and read updates on IIED's Storify site Read an overview of IIED's work on artisanal and small-scale mining Download our …
News, 30 June 2015