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New coalition to transform cities – and lives
… Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety  under its  International Climate Initiative (IKI) . The project seeks to …
News, 10 May 2021
Four people sit on the floor to look at a map on the ground.
In her name: securing land tenure for women in Zambia
… Mobile Approaches to Secure Tenure (MAST) to document land in areas under customary laws. The MAST approach is designed for inclusive land …
Insight, 14 October 2021
Postcard from Durban: Greener football and tree-preneurs
… landfill site, operated by the eThekwini (Durban) municipality. Under law there must be a buffer zone between it and local residents, … with 80 percent unemployment, few opportunities and a minimum wage of under a dollar an hour, this income is not to be sniffed at. The star …
Insight, 08 December 2011
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Land Registration in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia
… to be reliable; that registering all the land of a household together under the name of the household head may lead to unnecessary recording …
Publication, 01 December 2005
Urban environment Argentina. Photo: Mark Edwards
Urbanization: A double-edged sword for women
… points from each paper. These include papers on the following topics under this edition’s main theme of ‘Gender and Urban Change’: where and …
News, 10 April 2013
People need at least US$50 to survive for a month in Hanoi. This is twice the official urban poverty line (Photo via Commons Wikimedia/Google licence)
If we don't count the poor, the poor don't count
… be poor, and that means they undercount, particularly in urban areas. Under counting the poor In recent years researchers have reviewed the … lines are set too low for urban areas in many nations and so are under-counting the scale and depth of urban poverty. This is especially …
Insight, 12 June 2014
Happy birthday! IIED is forty years old
… new offices in London opened by Stephen O’Brien MP, the parliamentary under-secretary of state for international development. In the past 40 …
News, 21 October 2011
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Land in Africa: Market Asset or Secure Livelihood Conference London, November 8-9, 2004 Session on Gender, Land Rights and Inheritance
… relate to South Africa and focus on the issue of women's land rights under communal tenure systems. In making them I am conscious that South …
Publication, 01 November 2004
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Food Security in the Context of Crisis and Conflict: Beyond continuum thinking
… with capacity building to ensure that services can be managed under constraining conditions. This paper details lessons learned from …
Publication, 01 January 2002
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IIED mourns long-term partner and friend Perween Rahman
… the OPP to understand their approach and the work they were doing. Under Perween’s leadership the OPP has had a profound impact on an … their homes. These were communities whose longstanding residency was under threat. Powerful groups sought to evict them and take over their …
News, 14 March 2013