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Fishermen from Mayadip Island, Bangladesh. IIED will be discussing Bangladesh's work on payments for sustainable fisheries at the EDD15 forum (Photo: Matthew Becker, the Advocacy Project, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED at European Development Days 2015
… by the European Commission to share ideas on how to achieve a sustainable, poverty-free world. EDD15 was held in Brussels on 3 and 4 … team, moderated a high-level presentation on economic incentives for fisheries management in Bangladesh, and IIED co-hostrf a session … on the role of public and private finance in providing access to energy services in poor communities. The EDD15 programme included over …
Event, 03 June 2015
Many flags
IIED and partner events at COP25
… Climate negotiators gathered in Madrid in December for the 25th Conference of the Parties (COP25) of the United Nations … or under construction worldwide to service growing demands for energy, irrigation, water supply and flood control. These investments can make an important contribution towards the Sustainable Development Goals. However, developing and financing dams in …
Event, 02 December 2019
Collecting water from a solar-based purification system supplied by CAFOD. Chila Union, Mongla District, Bangladesh. Photo: Photo: Paula Nyunt / CAFOD
Energy delivery models that work for people living in poverty
… and driven by local demand to make them scalable, successful and sustainable over the long term. As a first step in this collaboration, … IIED and CAFOD have produced the paper, An approach to designing energy delivery models that work for people living in poverty , (English and Spanish) which outlines …
Article, 13 September 2013
Man picking up fruits from a tree
Food insecurity: an appetite for change
… insecure “[lacks] regular access to enough safe and nutritious food for normal growth and development and an active and healthy life.” … higher likelihood of chronic illnesses in later life. With the second Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 2) – zero hunger by 2030 – way out of … economic development processes, of which projects funding sustainable energy and travel must play an important part. Other steps towards food …
Insight, 12 August 2020
A stallholder measures her produce in a marketplace
Sustainable diets for all 
… to healthy and affordable diets from food that is produced in a sustainable way. The globalised food industry promotes low cost, highly … biodiversity and cuts out small producers. There is a compelling case for re-examining food systems. Sustainable Diets for All was an advocacy … was part of the consortium  ‘Dialogue and Dissent’  that includes an energy programme focused on  building green and inclusive energy . It …
Project, 13 October 2016
A flooded village with damaged houses.
Practical lessons on implementing business unusual 
… recognised that business-as-usual climate responses were not fit for purpose in their countries, IIED’s longstanding partner, the Least … countries. Achieving business-unusual will take time, commitment and energy and is a journey along a pathway for change that supports doing … in business-unusual and ideas to solve climate challenges from across all countries.   2. Programme design must be long-term, flexible and …
Insight, 15 June 2022
Some of the publications produced by IIED during 2015 (Image: IIED)
IIED's best of 2015: publications
… work available to as wide an audience as possible: you can download all the publications in this top-10 list free of charge in PDF format. … of charge: to find out more, please contact us . Here is our top 10 for 2015: Democratising international investment law: recent trends and … change on Least Developed Countries: are the SDGs possible? The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set the United Nations' development …
Article, 31 December 2015
In Tanzania, former artisanal mining licensees Mwanahamisi Mzalendo and Mwanamkasi Rasi are among entreprenurial women who have pooled their resources to create a quarrying business. They control the day-to-day running of the quarry, including supervising labourers, dealing with the local authorities, and taking care of the site's environmental footprint (Photo: Magali Rochat/IIED)
Q&A: Women are driving the change we need
… of the Special Initiatives Division at the UN Economic Commission for Africa. In this interview, she describes a shifting policy landscape … women's voices loud enough in the policies spaces that will advance sustainable development? FD: I think we've seen some real progress in … sanitation, education and security. In Africa, making the water-energy-food nexus work for women is paramount, whether for meeting …
Article, 08 March 2018
The British Library will host the 2014 Barbara Ward Lecture, with guest speaker Dr Fatima Denton (Photo: Wikipedia Commons licence)
2014 IIED lecture: Let's rewrite the narrative on Africa and climate change
News, 07 October 2014
Companies such as SteamaCo are making energy easier to access in remote villages in Kenya by using 'microgrids' (Photo: Sam Duby, SteamaCo)
Feeding into energy access: data-driven funding
… There has been much talk recently about how to finance access to energy in developing country contexts. Many on-paper financial … and actual delivery of useful power. This is particularly the case for rural areas, where electricity access is especially low and … decentralised off-grid solutions are often the most appropriate. It's all about data Many energy service provider entrepreneurs have …
Insight, 14 July 2015