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Ancestral miners rush to find gold and platinum ore at a mine wall opened by medium-scale mining (Photo: Ronald de Hommel)
Informality and formalisation in the artisanal and small-scale mining sector
… briefing on labour in ASM networks in the Philippines, published under the Shaping Sustainable Markets initiative in partnership with the …
Insight, 12 November 2014
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RRA Notes 20: Livestock
… in the longer term.  Among vulnerable groups whose livelihoods are under threat are smallholder farmers and pastoralists, for whom … the speed or efficacy of data collection.  This work is licensed under the  Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 …
Article, 31 March 1994
Climate change and religion in flooded Bangkok
Insight, 20 October 2011
Early morning in Dogo, West Java, Indonesia: getting low-cost furniture ready for selling on the street corner (Photo: Ikhlasul Amal, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Formalising the informal
… recognised as public service providers and paid at fixed rates, under formal contracts, for their work. The Bogota model is now being …
Insight, 30 March 2016
Urban poor transform slums in 100+ cities in 15 Asian nations
… create, and which rarely engage poor people as active participants. Under the ACCA programme, the first step is a city-wide, community-led …
News, 14 September 2011
No easy, quick solutions to improving life in the "slums"
… regulations mean that state services are either not provided, or are under-provided. In these neighbourhoods (which may include thousands of …
Insight, 05 September 2011
Delegates at CBA12 in Malawi gather around a table and write on a document
CBA13: galvanising locally-based adaptation in a crunch year for climate action
… when countries failed to agree how they will bring emissions under control despite the starkest of warnings from the IPCC , or to …
Insight, 22 January 2019
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RRA Notes 9: General Issue
… appraisal of artisanal activities in Zimbabwe. This work is licensed under the  Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 …
Article, 31 July 1990
Villagers in India dig out a silted-up water tank as part of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Act (Photo: McKay Savage, Creative Commons via Flickr)
2019 – the way forward is a Green Decent Work Guarantee
… . During 2018 the warning signs that climate and natural systems are under massive strain accelerated. The UK Meteorological Office has …
Insight, 30 December 2018
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RRA Notes 8: General Issue
… the economic status of community members. This work is licensed under the  Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 …
Article, 01 January 1990