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World leaders who sought the advice of IIED founder, who would have been 100 on 23 May 2014, included two US presidents, and several UK prime ministers and heads of state from Africa and Asia
100 years of Barbara Ward: IIED founder and champion of sustainable development
… with Ward and has also been interviewed about his recollections . "Under her guidance, IIED became one of the first organisations to make …
Article, 23 May 2014
Achala C Abeysinghe (second left) recently spoke on a panel discussion at COP23 on Women Leading the World's Climate Agenda (Photo: Anne Schulthess/IIED)
COP23 outcomes call for faster action and higher ambition to keep Paris on track
… the framework for transparent reporting and reviewing climate action under the agreement. However, other areas made little headway, including …
Insight, 21 November 2017
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Part II. TOWARDS A CONTEXTUAL FRAMEWORK SHARING POWER Chapter1. MANAGING NATURAL RESOURCES: A STRUGGLE BETWEEN POLITICS AND CULTURE
… to try in her own fields. The new portable machine has been set under a shack on the side of the grazing fields and Tobias is gathering …
Publication, 01 January 1970
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89 6 Sustainable Landscapes - Linking Conservation and Production
… wide range of settings.1 1. INTRODUCTION Approaches being developed under many biodiversity-related international agreements and programmes …
Publication, 01 January 1970
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i The Millennium Development Goals and Local Processes Hitting the target or missing the point? ii The Global Challenge: Goals and targets
… for 2015: Reduce by two-thirds the mortality rate among children under five. 5. Improve maternal health Target for 2015: Reduce by …
Publication, 01 January 1970
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MDG survey results 1 Millennium Development Goals: survey results
Publication, 01 January 1970
Testing the water in Kenya's Tana River watershed. The river's ecosystem is being affected by a range of factors. Public and private organisations are exploring ways to improve ecosystem management (Photo: Georgina Smith/CIAT, Creative Commons via Flickr)
'Sustainable development science' for transforming our world
… and institutional change that can achieve even more than is possible under current rules and governance . Looking back to help us move …
Insight, 09 October 2015
David Arach presented Namati's approach to community land protection, focusing on the key stage of community by-laws drafting, in the IIED webinar (Image: David Arach)
Using community by‑laws to protect indigenous and rural land rights
… peoples and local communities while other estimates show that under customary systems, communities and indigenous people hold as much …
Insight, 01 December 2016
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PLA 49: Decentralisation and community-based planning
… book reviews, events, and e-participation. This material is licensed under the  Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 …
Article, 31 March 2004
Achala Abeysinghe advises Giza Gaspar-Martins, the former chair of the Least Developed Countries Group, in Paris at COP21 (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Women in the poorest countries lack leadership opportunities in the UN
… ensure that the Paris climate agreement has the highest legal rigour under international law, and fought to ensure it is dynamic. All 48 LDCs …
Insight, 12 November 2016