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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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Engendering Eden Volume 3: Women, Gender and ICDPs in South and South East Asia- Lessons learnt and experiences shared
… and capacity building. However components still remain fragmented and under resourced. There is much room for improvement. …
Publication, 01 January 2003
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Institutionalising People's Participation in Natural Resource Management: A Case Study of a Watershed Management Programme in Chittoor District, Andhra
… more than 8, 000 micro-watersheds (500 ha each) are being managed under this new approach. This programme represents a radical policy …
Publication, 01 January 2003
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
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
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
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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
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Legal empowerment for local resource control: Securing local resource rights within foreign investment projects in Africa
… foreign investment projects in Africa. This report has been produced under IIED’s Legal tools for citizen empowerment project. …
Publication, 01 September 2007
Global network to help African farmers navigate globalised markets
… small-scale farmers to position themselves in globalising markets, under fair conditions. “Markets for agricultural produce are …
News, 02 December 2009
View of Monterrey, Mexico
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