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Mangroves (Blue Carbon) in the Lamu area, on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya (Photo: Peter Prokosch)
IIED at the IUCN World Conservation Congress
… shape the direction of conservation and sustainable development. The theme of the IUCN Congress 2016 was 'Planet at the crossroads' and it … Congress objectives The congress aimed to: Inspire the international community to take action for nature by demonstrating its critical role … number of IIED projects which include biocultural heritage, ecosystem-based adaptation, social assessment of protected areas, food demand and …
Event, 01 September 2016
People point to a computer screen.
ELLA - sharing Evidence and Lessons from Latin America
… that are a cross between an online learning programme and a community of practice. Each alliance starts with a moderated learning … from one of three regional centres of expertise. ( GRADE , a Lima-based think tank, covers economic development themes. Fundar , a Mexico … on extractive industries, citizen oversight, and climate change adaptation in semi-arid and arid regions, have just completed their …
Insight, 12 November 2012
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IIED's best of 2020: videos
… IIED Debates series and shifting the 14th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA14)  online. This will feature insight … more than the previous year by mid-December – from over 50 countries. 1 Water before gold: voices from Santurbán … The importance of youth inclusion was a strong theme of the year, and this was evident during CBA14 as the likes …
Insight, 30 December 2020
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Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change Bulletin
Publication, 01 April 2011
Workers build up the banks of the Teesta River in Bangladesh. Bangladesh already spends six per cent of its annual budget on climate change adaptation (Photo: International Rivers, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Musings from a first timer at a CBA conference
Insight, 30 April 2015
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 diversity of needs of displaced people to the application of area-based and integrated approaches for programming. The full set of … Cities Initiative outputs is available to read and download . 1. Context analysis and stakeholder coordination tools  The project … of holistic responses, the project conducted a review of area-based and integrated programming and produced programmatic guidance …
Project, 11 May 2017
PLA 60: Community-based adaptation to climate change
… Alam, Rachel Berger,  Terry Cannon, Saleemul Huq and Angela Milligan Community-based adaptation (CBA) to climate change brings together those working … comprehensive assessment of the physical science basis (Working Group 1), impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability (Working Group 2), and … PLA 60: Community-based adaptation to climate change …
Article, 01 December 2009
Community-based adaptation in Bangladesh. Photo: G.M.B. Akash/PANOS
Developing nations put climate change adaptation at the centre of planning
… group developed its strategy at the 7th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change, which ended today in Dhaka, … events." Next year’s conference will take place in Nepal and its theme will be 'financing adaptation'. … Developing nations put climate change adaptation at the centre of planning …
News, 25 April 2013
CBA5 participants visited Char Kukri-Mukri island on the southeast coast. Here women tend mangrove seedlings destined to provide a barrier against erosion (Photo: B. Koelle)
5th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA5)
Article, 13 April 2011
Buenos Aires, Argentina: luxury skyscrapers contrast with a shanty town of small brick dwellings with aluminium roofs. It is estimated that 10 per cent of the city's population lives in informal settlements (Photo: Mark Edwards/IIED)
Facing an increasingly urban world
… at the launch , was at Habitats I and II. Picking up on a common theme from the E&U articles, he observed that the impact of the first … many of the themes of the recent 10th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation  held in Dhaka, Bangladesh on the theme of …
Insight, 13 May 2016