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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 … throughout 2019. From finding ways to channel climate finance to rural communities in Kenya to documenting health and climate risks for …
Article, 23 December 2020
Getting water from a tanker in Vijinapura, India. Partnerships between local government and slum/shack dweller organisations can help deliver urban development goals (Photo: cstepin, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Why do we ignore the local processes that deliver global goals in urban areas?
… The global discourse on development and all its goals has become almost entirely divorced from … allocated. So in discussions at the United Nations on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and now on the new urban agenda (to … 'city' or 'urban' is referenced, so too must 'human settlements' or 'rural settlements' be mentioned. As if 'rural development' proponents …
Insight, 16 August 2016
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 6 Focussing formal surveys in Thailand: a use for rapid rural appraisal
… 1988­2001 6 Focussing formal surveys in Thailand: a use for rapid rural appraisal Karen Ehlers and Christine Martins A key stage in formal surveys lies in the and sustainable farming system. The identification of the topics to be … Training in Agricultural challenged the basis for this traditional Development (CATAD)1 team in focussing for production system. To try to …
Publication, 01 January 1988
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Walking with villagers: How Liberia’s Land Rights Policy was shaped from the grassroots
… 2009 to 2011, as part of its Community Land Protection Program, the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) and NAMATI embarked on a two-year action-research project to support rural communities in Liberia to protect, document, and manage their …
Publication, 01 October 2014
A group of villagers
A tale of two villages: community perspectives on the impact of Botswana’s trophy hunting ban
… In the 1990s, rural communities in Botswana were granted rights to manage land for … hunting, with the proceeds of these ventures going towards community development. Through this national Community-Based Natural Resources … decades, the government of Botswana included these community-based sustainable use approaches in their national wildlife conservation …
Insight, 24 January 2020
A cereal shop, a corner shop and a computer, printing and photocopy shop.
Energy, finance and community business – show us the money
Insight, 18 August 2020
A group of people, largely young people, gather to pose for a photo, inside a conference venue.
Building a resilient future led by youth
News, 17 November 2022
A vendor in India uses energy produced by a micro-grid funded by SunFunder (Photo: Sameer Halai/SunFunder)
Off-grid energy powered by the crowd
… How can the power of an immense crowd deliver sustainable energy access? Different models of crowdfunding are being … banks (offering rates close to the 15 per cent) and regional rural banks (whose rates are about 12-13 per cent) are also providing … Lopicich ([email protected]) is managing director at the NGO Innovation, Development and Equity in Santiago, Chile, and a consultant with …
Insight, 09 April 2015
COP24 will take place in Katowice's landmark congress centre and exhibition hall (Photo: Umkatowice, Creative Commons via Wikipedia)
IIED and partner events at COP24
Event, 02 December 2018
How mobiles stayed massive — talking down the recession
… 2009 reached a record 11 million, with demand coming mainly from rural consumers. Typically, they earn less than US$1000 a year and a … a recently published report by UNCTAD (the UN Conference on Trade and Development), for many smaller enterprises in low-income countries the … attention. The multiplier effect of support networks established with sustainable development in mind allows for broader information sharing …
Insight, 26 January 2010