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REDD+: a win-win deal is possible!
… example, Ghana gives prominence to customary tenure and the role of traditional authorities, while Tanzania enacted the Village Land Act to … of the community in this process, including women who have important knowledge about forest resources. Consultations should also include … develop readiness plans and map out next steps. We have the tools and knowledge – now they need to be used to hammer something into shape. …
Insight, 17 November 2011
A herder with his livestock in Isiolo County, Kenya (Photo: Dorine Odongo/ILRI, Creative Commons via Flickr)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Kenya
… and implemented and funded at scale, while retaining community knowledge and needs at its core.  Informing policy IIED and ADA have … and landscapes. According to the article, the strengthening of the traditional natural resource management system has enabled Isiolo host …
Project, 14 June 2018
A plenary session at COP15 (Photo: UNclimatechange, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
COP15 UN Climate Change Conference
Event, 20 December 2009
An interactive data visual that illustrates the scale and speed of urban transformation that research by IIED has sought to document and describe
IIED's best of 2014: multimedia
… to help tell the story of our work  –  while not forgetting the more traditional and familiar printed and video formats. Below are 10 … development and biodiversity conservation, based on indigenous and traditional land tenure, production systems and cultural identity. One … ' in May, ' Citizen power: Sustaining paralegal programmes to put knowledge back into communities' hands ' in October, and ' Paving a path …
Insight, 12 January 2015
Shift power to people to preserve natural world, urges report
… harm local livelihoods — as when people are excluded from performing traditional practices when areas become protected, despite their knowledge relating to the conservation and sustainable use of …
News, 08 October 2008
Responding to climate change in the Caribbean
Insight, 05 July 2011
IIED Insights: Q&A with Hannah Reid on community based adaptation
Article, 10 March 2011
Gatekeeper series: Local organization Profiles
… established in 1995 to defend indigenous rights to genetic resources, traditional knowledge and landscape character in Peru. It started with volunteer … on protected areas, biodiversity registers, food security corridors, traditional knowledge and agro-eco-tourism. Read more and download …
Article, 01 April 2010
COP17 in Durban: Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC Christiana Figueres and the President of COP17, South Africa's Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane (Photo: Michael Mazengarb, Creative Commons via Flickr)
United Nations climate change negotiations: IIED at COP17
Event, 20 December 2011
A researcher talking with a cotton farmer in Mozambique. Communicating our findings to a wide range of key audiences is central to our work (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
Communicating research – uptake, influence and change
… Building relationships with these people, who might be farmers and traditional leaders, academics or government ministers, with or without … of context, timing, methods, partner involvement, appropriateness of knowledge products, importance of relationships – I could go on. This is …
Insight, 15 January 2015