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Millions of Kenyans depend on the Ewaso Ngiro river and its tributaries, but over-abstraction and changing weather patterns are reducing river flows (Photo: Denis Onyodi/Kenya Red Cross Society, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Building research capacity for sustainable water and food security in drylands of sub-Saharan Africa (BRECcIA)
… short course for drylands policymakers and practitioners in Kenya. Based around the theme of ‘valuing variability’, the course used the findings of applied … operating in ASAL areas Local administrators/leaders in ASAL areas Community opinion leaders in ASAL areas, and Curriculum officers in the …
Project, 27 July 2018
The Maasai believe that community-managed slaughterhouses can help fight climate change. Here, effluent is stored in ponds (Photo: Hannah Reid/IIED)
Slaughterhouse five
Insight, 29 April 2015
COP22 side events
IIED and partner events at COP22
… Countries and analysing progress at the main negotiations. The theme of IIED's work at COP22 was 'embedding climate ambition', focusing … climate work in order to limit global warming to 2°C, and to target 1.5°C.   European Capacity Building Initiative (ecbi) training and … YouTube channel . Related reading: Local climate finance funding community-prioritised adaptation | Decentralising Climate Funds in Mali …
Event, 05 November 2016
Home workers making bouquets (Photo: Siddharth Agarwal/UHRC)
Addressing risks facing informal workers
… in factories, street vending, construction, brick kilns, and home-based workers as well as their family members.  UHRC has strong links to … health and safety within the informal economy. This was followed by community-based and participatory action research to assess informal … to climate change. We engaged regularly with local authorities, community representatives, and other stakeholders to develop strategies …
Project, 01 October 2018
Reality check: climate change and the poor
Insight, 28 March 2011
The COP23 venue in Bonn nears completion (Photo: Achala Abeysinghe/IIED)
IIED and partner events at COP23
… and informing policy. Research overview and overarching questions Community-based adaptation: research, practice and partnerships for … 100% renewable energy pioneers contribute to limit global warming to 1.5C?' at 1.30pm at this all-day event.  Seminar Series on Biodiversity … (D&C Days) Conference   Date: Saturday 11 to Sunday, 12 November The theme for the 15th D&C Days conference is 'Global ambition. Local …
Event, 06 November 2017
A giant temple bell in Mongolia (Photo: David Berkowitz via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
The IPCC rings the warning bell louder. Is anyone listening?
… by well over a year. Another negative aspect (from the perspective of adaptation knowledge which is the topic that I work on) is that most of … adaptation will form the focus of our  international conference on community-based adaptation to climate change , this month in Nepal. Saleemul Huq …
Insight, 02 April 2014
The Forest Investment Program, an example of an investment fund with simplified funding frameworks, has invested $10 million in a $24 million project with the African Development Bank to restore Ghana's rapidly degrading forests (Photo: Greg Neate, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Six steps to local climate finance
… for 2003-15 is that only 11 per cent of climate finance, or US$1.6 billion, flows to the local level.  So what is preventing finance … that hinder local ownership; and poor enforcement of policies for community engagement. Promoting local finance in practice  And yet … local level have used grants rather than loans to finance community-based projects, but there could be more experimentation with innovative …
Insight, 06 November 2016
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 … and communities to help shape a better future will be an important theme at the 10th Community-Based Adaptation conference in Dhaka in April, and should be a …
Insight, 04 January 2016
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PLA Notes 40 Deliberative Democracy and Citizen Empowerment
… This issue includes general articles, as well as a theme section on Deliberative Democracy and Citizen Empowerment The … section includes: An article on the ethical dilemmas faced by a community development project working with debt-bonded sex workers in … students in Southern Peru. An article looking at how a community-based approach can be valuable for malaria control and dissemination of …
Publication, 01 February 2001