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Nearly 80 per cent of Dar es Salaam's residents live in informal settlements, and less than 10 per cent of the city has sewer access (Photo: Anna Walnycki/IIED)
Connecting settlements, cities and basins: realising SDG 6 at scale
… without adequate planning. Dar es Salaam has been growing at just under six per cent a year and, with insufficient planning for such …
Insight, 25 August 2016
Cover for G00571.pdf
Facing Facing the Future Future THE REPORT OF THE MMSD AUSTRALIA PROJECT M A Y 2002
… by the Australian Minerals and Energy Environment Foundation, under contract to the International Institute for Environment and …
Publication, 01 May 2002
Fishermen along the Meghna Rover (Photo: Essam Mohammed/IIED)
Want to know how to save a fish species? Ask a fisher
… – which I must admit I enjoyed very much after walking a long way under the smouldering sun to get there. Ali sat down on a weathered, … 1. A policy paradox promotes illegal fishing.  First he told me that, under Bangladesh's Protection and Conservation of Fish Act, if the …
Insight, 08 June 2014
Local villagers receive wildlife training in the Mbarang'andu Wildlife Management Area in Tanzania, which incorporates seven villages. (Photo: WWF/USAID Biodiversity & Forestry, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Communities, livelihoods and sustainable wildlife management
… sustainable wildlife management  (March 2018) Blog,  Trophy hunting under fire , by Dilys Roe (April 2016) Blog:  RIP Cecil the lion – what …
Article, 14 November 2018
An image taken by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center shows Tropical Storm Hagupit weakening as it nears Manila, but it has already claimed 21 lives while COP20 proceeds in Lima (Photo: NASA/NOAA via NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory)
Philippines to lead global forum of vulnerable countries
… average. Toulmin added: "As the second and final week of COP20 is under way, this highlights the need for countries currently attending …
News, 09 December 2014
GWI influence - access and rights to irrigated land - planting rice - Selingue dam - Mali
Global Water Initiative: Mali
… of qualified personnel at the regional level, infrastructure-building under municipal project management was hampered by non-compliance with … Kalifa Diakite ([email protected]), Infrastructure-building under municipal project management Dieudonné Somboro …
Project, 16 February 2018
Cover for 6105IIED.pdf
Intensification of Agriculture in Semi-Arid Areas: Lessons from the Kano Close-Settled Zone, Nigeria
… and for the last 30 years at least, all available land has been under annual cultivation. Observers have wondered at the apparent …
Publication, 01 January 1996
Cover for G01302.pdf
Reclaiming our right to power: some conditions for deliberative democracy (PLA 40)
… in shaping the decisions that affect their lives. But how and under what conditions can the democratic potential of these approaches …
Publication, 01 February 2001
A house in Rema gets fitted with solar panels.
Ethiopia: Can it adapt to climate change and build a green economy?
… developing a green economy and greater resilience to climate change under a single policy framework in support of its national development … overseen by the CRGE Ministerial Steering Committee (an initiative under the Prime Minister’s Office), the Environmental Protection Agency …
Insight, 25 March 2013
A man walking in a flooded street
Transitioning to a better global ‘new normal’
… are still playing out, the lockdown policies to bring the virus under control are wreaking havoc on the communities where we and our …
Insight, 22 April 2020