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Among IIED's work on ways to ensure that the benefits of energy systems reach the people who currently lack access to energy are energy labs in Tanzania, explains Ben Garside (Image: IIED)
Understanding the SDGs: powering Goal Seven
… [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOxTH5A7oNA] The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) on energy – Goal 7  – sets out a universal … large-scale infrastructure to decentralisation, providing power to rural locations via small-scale local grids and off-grid solutions, …
News, 24 September 2015
IIED founder Barbara Ward, who would have been 100 on 23 May, set out the case for a fairer, more just world system
A vision of our world that is sustainable, fairer and realisable: memories of Barbara Ward
… all her books, there was such depth in understanding the politics of development and of history, in how we got to where we are now. And in … “The Cost of Justice” sets out goals that pre-figure the Millennium Development Goals – for food and nutrition, rural and urban water and sanitation, and health programmes. This …
Insight, 27 May 2014
People gathering branches
Nature-based solutions to climate change: stories from Chile
Insight, 12 December 2019
A group of people sit on the floor in a circle. A woman on her feet is reading from a paper. Some other people are no their feet and holding hands in the air.
Legal empowerment as action research
… processes of change. The concept of legal empowerment To paraphrase development studies scholar Naila Kabeer , empowerment is the process … notion of empowerment because of its frequent misuse, such as when development organisations claim their activities ‘empower’ disadvantaged … from the former colonial power but on real-life experiences in Mali's rural areas. Reflect and act These approaches are diverse, but they all …
Insight, 11 January 2022
Fishermen offloading their morning catch from a fishing boat in Kalindi, West Bengal (Photo: Souvik Das Gupta, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Creating waves for small-scale fisheries
… global call to conserve our oceans, seas and marine resources in the Sustainable Development Goals ( SDG 14 ) was, for many, long overdue recognition of … less support for social protection (PDF)  than other rural communities. This means there is relatively little guidance on how …
Insight, 17 November 2016
Aerial view of an arid landscape. A group of people walk.
IIED at 50: be prepared to engage with young activists
… (BG) have both spent more than 35 years working on environment and development in West Africa. During the 1990s they collaborated on IIED’s … and headed the organisation until 2019. It continues to work on sustainable development and citizenship with an emphasis on … the Sahel needed to find ways to provide livelihoods and incomes for rural populations in drylands areas. Instead of top-down approaches, …
Article, 29 November 2021
Report flags progress and pitfalls in Uganda's energy sector
… on 1 December by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and launched at a press conference in Kampala. The … urging the government to: Pursue an integrated approach to rural electrification, covering the whole spectrum of energy resources. … in low-carbon energy. In the run up to the UN International Year of Sustainable Energy for All, in 2012, we hope that this report will be …
News, 02 December 2011
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Climate change responses in Zimbabwe: local actions and national policy
… Climate variability and change pose a significant threat to sustainable development and poverty reduction in Zimbabwe. The country is … focus on how these respond to the needs of the most vulnerable rural and urban populations. The briefing concludes with a set of …
Publication, 01 January 2013
Water is conserved at a devolved climate finance project site in Zanzibar
Responding to climate change in Tanzania by strengthening dryland governance and planning
… authorities leading the planning and budgeting process for local development, responsible for understanding community priorities and … well as government training institutions, such as the Institute for Rural Development and Planning and the Local Government Training … on the approach and the lessons emerging from it.  At community level Sustainable Environment Management Action and the Tanzania Natural …
Project, 16 March 2018
Brazil's favelas are a legacy of a more passive resistance reflecting an unwillingness to plan for anticipated population growth (Photo: Chris Jones, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Exploring inclusive urbanisation and other migration crises
… voices often lament that their cities are being overrun with rural migrants – a rural-urban version of the international migrant … will be addressed at a workshop co-hosted by IIED, the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and the  United Nations Population … and that to achieve this they need to be open and welcoming. The 11th Sustainable Development Goal is to 'Make cities and human settlements …
Insight, 28 October 2015