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Two community leaders prepare service contracts for a novel container-based sanitation service before installing toilets in users' homes in Cap Haitien, Haiti (Photo: Felipe Jacome)
Learning from the MDGs: improved sanitation and drainage in cities
… The water MDG was widely acknowledged as the furthest from delivering … of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation'.  Across two issues of the journal , 22 … in Zimbabwe, stormwater drainage in Johannesburg, open-access water information platform), and Policy (national sanitation policy in …
News, 07 October 2015
Conference buzzes with stories of communities adapting to climate change
News, 26 April 2012
An illustration showing two people reading a book titled "Participatory Learning and Action" in front of the words "positive change"
Participatory Learning and Action: archive
… Most issues of Participatory Learning and Action have a special theme section, as well as a selection of general articles and regular … February 2000 PLA 36: General Issue October 1999 PLA 35: Community Water Management June 1999 PLA 34: Learning from Analysis February 1999 RRA Notes 3: General Issue December 1998 PLA 33: Understanding Market …
Article, 31 January 2022
A dish of amatehe
Protecting indigenous foods, preserving biodiversity – the solutions are in nature
… helps deliver basic human needs, including food. Biodiversity keeps water fresh and air clean; it increases soil fertility and promotes pest … in commercial agriculture. Indigenous farming systems require less water and fewer chemical fertilisers and pesticides. These traditional … and protect indigenous food systems and local biodiversity.  The theme for this year’s international biodiversity day should be a …
Insight, 22 May 2020
Cover for G01824.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 Editorial
… Document begins: PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988­2001 Editorial BOX 1 Theme issue PARTNER ORGANSIATIONS · Europe Welcome to this issue of PLA Notes, where the Mr. Marc P. Lammerink, Ms. Eveline Bolt, Mr. theme is community management of water Peter Bury, IRC International Water and systems. This issue …
Publication, 01 January 1999
Cover for G03421.pdf
Community Based Adaptation: 6th International Conference 16-22 April 2012 - Conference proceedings
… and many more attending the opening and closing sessions. The theme of CBA6 - communicating CBA - was addressed in dedicated … communicating climate change; children as drivers of change; inland water management and coastal areas; increasing community resilience; …
Publication, 01 August 2012
Song, dancing & tomatoes were on the agenda when a CBA9 field trip was hosted by the Likia Conservancy Self-Help Group, which showed participants its fish farming and beehives (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
CBA9 highlights – pre-conference field trips
News, 26 April 2015
Urban environment Argentina. Photo: Mark Edwards
Urbanization: A double-edged sword for women
… These issues – along with climate change, waste, water and other topics -- are explored in the April 2013 issue of the … include papers on the following topics under this edition’s main theme of ‘Gender and Urban Change’: where and when urban women enjoy … for the Urban Poor Programme;  the politics of non-payment for water in low-income communities in Manila, the Philippines; …
News, 10 April 2013
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 … noted that the language of Habitat returns incessantly to the theme of 'inclusion', but fails to consider the drivers of urban … urban residents, many of which are linked to city environments: clean water, adequate sanitation, improved air quality, and risk-reducing …
Insight, 13 May 2016
Durban Beach, South Africa (Photo: Darren Glanville, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Investing in natural capital to deliver the SDGs and reduce poverty
Insight, 17 July 2017