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The context and the case for markets for watershed protection services and improved livelihoods in Bolivia
… 2004, and “Improving Bolivian Water Management: Incentives to Promote Sustainable Watershed Management that Improves Rural Livelihoods“ held in La Paz in November 2004. These meetings … supported by the International Institute for Environment and Development. …
Publication, 01 January 2005
A group of people standing outside
Event highlights: CBA15 – 15th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change
… and seeing how we might secure a Catalytic Grant – Pauline Kariuki, Rural Women Network, Kenya Who's at CBA15?  Small-scale financing for … the same time, we're also trying to respond to a gap in international development and bring funding closer to the community level – while also … Lodry Dongmo, African Network of Young Leaders for Peace and Sustainable Development, Cameroon In the Marketplace: climate-proofing …
Article, 14 June 2021
Urban-rural linkages have been 'beefed up' in the latest draft of the UN's Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals
OWG 'zero draft' is a huge step forward: now let's get practical
… The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) contributed to an Independent Research Forum … poverty lines that reflect the real cost of living in urban and rural areas within a country. To support meeting such a target, we will … beefed up by the addition of targets on trade-distorting subsidies, sustainable and resilient food systems, market stability, conduct of …
Insight, 20 June 2014
Northern Ghana: a village chief learns forestry skills. Rural communities need investment to build up forest and farm enterprises and link them to markets and support networks (Photo: Treeaid, via Creative Commons)
It's time for revolution in forest business
… not unpopulated. Some 50 per cent of Mozambique's population live in rural forested areas. The risk is that they will be swept aside, along … defend their interests. Yet how else is it possible to incentivise sustainable forest management and poverty reduction in the same breath – … representatives of local support NGOs such as Mpingo Conservation & Development Initiative from Tanzania and ORAM from Mozambique presented …
Insight, 17 November 2014
COP22 side events
IIED and partner events at COP22
… climate finance for decentralised energy access, serving both development and the climate Side event Date: Monday, 7 November, 2016 … director, ANDES This side event discussed increasing urban and rural areas resilience and sustainability, and provide solutions to … agenda   Climate summit for local and regional leaders: financing the sustainable transition of territories Date: Monday, 14 November, 2016 …
Event, 05 November 2016
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Land Registration in Nampula and Zambezia provinces, Mozambique
… Nampula and Zambezia provinces in Mozambique assesses the process of rural land registration in Mozambique and the outcomes for poor and … and there is little supervision to ensure that compulsory land development plans produced by investors are implemented in practice. These issues will need to be tackled in order to for rural land registration be really pro-poor in practice. …
Publication, 01 December 2005
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 … in urban centres, although much of what is said here applies to rural populations too. So who needs finance to act, for example to …
Insight, 31 March 2015
Women discuss forest management at a Community Forest User Group meeting in Nepal. Photo: WOCAN
Gender and REDD+
Project, 12 September 2013
Fisheries account for 12 per cent of The Gambia's GDP. The country's Atlantic coastline and the mangroves along the River Gambia estuary are vulnerable to climate change (Photo: Javier D. Creative Commons via Flickr)
GCF funding boosts ecosystem-based adaptation in The Gambia
… they can continue to produce essential crops. Climate Resilient Sustainable Agricultural (CRSA) practices have also been promoted. A … , IIED is profiling national approaches to climate-resilient development. This is the third of three blogs from members of the … and wildlife conservation areas – building the climate-resilience of rural Gambian communities and promoting a sustainable natural …
Insight, 22 June 2017
Peter DeMarsh, who died in the Ethiopian Airways crash on 10 March 2019 (Photo: Teresa Sarroca)
IIED remembers Peter DeMarsh
… economics from Toronto and master’s degree in international affairs (rural development), Peter had begun to work with local family forest owner … allowed him to clarify four basic preconditions for incentivising sustainable forest management from a farmer’s perspective – couched as …
News, 14 March 2019