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Strengthening user-rights over local resources in Wollo, Ethiopia
… resource regeneration. One of these approaches (PLUPI - Participatory Land Use Planning & Implementation) deals with some of the technical and methodological concerns, by following a holistic approach to sustainable land husbandry to complement the Government's agricultural …
Publication, 01 January 2001
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
… women's voices loud enough in the policies spaces that will advance sustainable development? FD: I think we've seen some real progress in … employment, or that women are less likely to have access to land, credit and education – has gained real traction within … that, for too long, women have been left out of climate-related planning, policymaking and implementation.  When I began working in the …
Article, 08 March 2018
Louder this time, ‘Turn REDD on its head!’
… to those who do things to reduce emissions from their forest land use won’t work. And maybe the money won’t materialise anyway because … learning’ tells us so far about REDD+, poverty reduction and sustainable development. Participants came from multilateral and …
Insight, 30 November 2011
Men sitting on railway tracks with roosters. Sucat Railway Community, Manila, Philippines.
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
Project, 30 April 2008
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Local funds for local development
… given to strengthening local government finance. Papers report on how land-based financing and municipal bonds can strengthen local … and state modernization. Other papers are on public transit-led land development for housing, on local government negotiations with … organisations as a foundation for achieving global aspirations for sustainable development and poverty eradication. …
Publication, 01 April 2018
Delivering REDD+: can past lessons help in tempering optimism and making headway?
… that there are still unresolved issues. Drivers of deforestation and land degradation mostly originate from outside the forest sector — … watersheds; (ii) set stringent requirements for protected areas and sustainable commercial management of resources that preserve national … of payments ultimately determine reductions of emissions from land use and land use change. Identifying the right claimants is critical. …
Insight, 09 May 2011
The Bairro Proletário do Dique in Rio de Janeiro was settled in the 1960s. The local infrastructure remains poor (Photo: Mariana Gil/EMBARQ Brasil, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Is more inclusive urbanisation essential to the 2030 Agenda?
… The 2030 Agenda promises Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that are "integrated and … to emphasise their economic potential. When urban sociologists use the almost identical term 'growth machines', they use the term … this 'excess' population. Better to avoid opening up affordable land, and discourage poor people from staying. But this often pushes …
Insight, 02 March 2016
The Nor Yauyos-Cochas Landscape Reserve in the Andean highlands, Peru (Photo: Karen Podvin)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Peru
Project, 04 September 2018
A block of unfinished buildings, open to the elements
A world without refugee camps? IIED launches research on urban refugees
… situation in an orderly way, until they can return home. Their use is also a way of fundraising for the much-needed resources to keep … a shack or an apartment, or living in temporary structures on empty land. Camps limit people’s movements and curtail their economic … able to meet their basic needs and exercise their human rights in a sustainable way, without reliance on humanitarian assistance. The …
Insight, 06 April 2020
Workshop participants touring the Stone Village in China (Photo: Irene Song)
Mountain peoples call for support to protect traditional knowledge
… them. Indigenous mountain people are also made vulnerable by insecure land ownership, environmental degradation, outward migration and … and traditional water management systems. Stone village communities use water management systems that date back some 1,300 years. Dr. … Argumedo, program director of the  Association for Nature and Sustainable Development  in Peru, said: "This traditional water …
News, 04 July 2016