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Four images of people from IIED's 2021 'super year' video, including a fisher hauling nets
IIED and the ‘super year’
… directly engaged in are outlined below. Gobeshona Global Conference 1 Date : 18-24 January 2021 This  online conference organised by the … group of scholars, policymakers, researchers and practitioners on the theme of locally-led adaptation. Climate Adaptation Summit Date : 18-24 … thinking from various sectors – food and agriculture, finance, cities, infrastructure, biodiversity, disaster risk reduction – that are …
Article, 02 February 2021
London Climate Action Week logo
IIED at London Climate Action Week, November 2020
… reading : Disruptive resilience: an agenda for the new normal in cities of the global South   LCAW closing event: the recovery we need  … senior policy advisor, E3G. The 'Fair, green and resilient recovery' theme in November’s LCAW seeks to explore what this means in practice …
Event, 17 November 2020
More than 80 representatives of slum-dwellers federations attended the 9th World Urban Forum in Kuala Lumpur (Photo: United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: the World Urban Forum brought together governments and grassroots – what next?
… lives of people living in low-income and informal settlements in cities around the world. But they have become more inclusive over the … Forum, the participants released the Kuala Lumpur Declaration on Cities 2030 . This highlights the roles for "key enablers capable of … been great input from local government representatives from host cities, and humanitarian and international agencies working on urban …
Article, 14 February 2018
Conference buzzes with stories of communities adapting to climate change
… three days of visits to communities across Vietnam that are already adapting to climatic changes. The main conference that followed included … disasters, and adaptation in urban communities. The conference theme was communication, and the meeting included ‘out-of-the-box’ … under threat       VIDEO -- Cutting climate disaster risk key in cities               Vietnamese businesses ill-prepared for …
News, 26 April 2012
The April 2105 Nepal earthquake destroyed more than 500,000 buildings in Kathmandu. There was a huge international aid effort, but reconstruction has been slow (Photo: SIM Central and South East Asia, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Urban Crises Learning Partnerships
… The two partnerships, the Stronger Cities Initiative and the Urban Crises Learning Partnership (UCLP) , ran … to implement more effective urban humanitarian response. The Stronger Cities Initiative The International Rescue Committee (IRC) , Norwegian … Cities Initiative outputs is available to read and download . 1. Context analysis and stakeholder coordination tools  The project …
Project, 11 May 2017
Home workers making bouquets (Photo: Siddharth Agarwal/UHRC)
Addressing risks facing informal workers
… Although comprising most of the labour force in Indian and African cities, informal workers usually remain invisible to policymakers and … out participatory action research with researchers and workers in the cities of Harare and Masvingo. The analysis focused on three themes: …
Project, 01 October 2018
Indigeonous communities join government officials, NGOs and academics to participate in a ridge-to-reef mapping workshop in Cagayan de Oro City to identify threats to the forest and environment ecosystem (Photo: Horacio Marcos C. Mordeno, MindaNews, Creative Commons via Flickr)
International Disaster and Risk Conference 2016: key resources
… Disaster and Risk Conference in Davos, Switzerland, from 28 August to 1 September focused on a wide range of issues relating to risk reduction and disaster management across the globe. The theme was 'Integrative risk management – towards resilient cities', with a focus on urban areas and promoting resilience in cities. …
Article, 28 August 2016
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City Governance and Citizen Action II
… below) The April 2009 issue of Environment and Urbanization is on the theme of City Governance and Citizen Action. It includes an editorial … of city greenhouse gas emissions inventories (showing that many cities have lower emissions per person than the average for their …
Publication, 01 April 2009
New Melones Lake, California, which is facing one of the most severe droughts on record with a state of emergency declared in January (Photo: Ben Amstutz, Flickr, via Creative Commons)
2016 – when global meets local in climate action
… levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degree Centigrade'. Climate change increasingly influences the … of energy supplies More equitable, inclusive and cleaner cities that address the substantial unmet needs for residents of … and communities to help shape a better future will be an important theme at the 10th Community-Based Adaptation conference in Dhaka in …
Insight, 04 January 2016
A cartoon showing an adult holding a sign and a group of children saying: "We already know how to hold a sign. Show us how to redirect funding to sustainable resource management technologies".
CBA14 preview event uses climate cartoons to trigger discussions
… that is offering support to migrant workers who are returning from cities after having lost their jobs because of COVID-19. The Sakhi …
Article, 05 August 2020