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Delivering change: IIED annual review 2019
… in Kenya; to documenting health and climate risks for informal urban workers in India and Zimbabwe; to working to grow networks to … to those on the frontline of complex and interlinking global crises.” …
Publication, 01 February 2020
An illustration with a speech bubble: "We're dealing with multiple intertwined crises" with scales and illustrations depicting climate change, COVID-19, rising inequalities and biodiversity loss
A green recovery from COVID-19? Not without climate, nature and development solutions
Insight, 26 November 2020
Camp site with several informal tents made of fabric and plastic.
Are humanitarian agencies starting from scratch again in Haiti?
… energy and funds – and then lost. Supported by IIED under the Urban Crises programme  then funded by the Department for International … communities and authorities and to agencies working in similar crises in future. If we recognise data, tools and expertise are a … Urban …
Insight, 24 October 2021
The devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban City (Image: Gerald Paragas and Amillah Rodil)
New film tracks city's recovery from deadly typhoon
… working together towards recovery'.  This work has been funded by the Urban Crises Learning Fund ,  a three-year project looking at how the humanitarian sector can most effectively operate in urban contexts. With funding from the Department for International … Urban …
News, 07 July 2016
People wearing face masks and medical suits
IIED's best of 2020: blogs
… In this blog, part of a series on the transition to a predominantly urban world , Satterthwaite revised the different elements that come … 3 The impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on the diets of Hanoi’s urban poor April:   Guest blogger Sigrid Wertheim-Heck  explored the … pandemic response  that could be applied to help tackle other global crises, such as the climate emergency. Drawing on lessons from the …
Article, 22 December 2020
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IIED at COP26
… push for fair and ambitious actions to tackle the climate and nature crises. The Development and Climate (D&C) Days event  from 9-10 November … business, investors, civil society, academia, and coastal, rural and urban representatives regions, of which IIED is a part. IIED led on four … locally-led adaptation and just transition, and cities and urban resilience. …
Event, 01 November 2021
Woman walking through a vegetable garden. A pond behind her.
D&C Days 2021: five pathways for adaptation, resilience and action
… food system transformation .   Managing interconnected risks and crises across the entire food system, and beyond, can build the … BY-NC-ND 2.0 ) Innovative collaborations between different types of urban stakeholders are the key to delivering sustainable and effective climate resilience solutions. As urban areas hold different types of government institutions, multiple …
Article, 12 November 2021
IIED's Susannah Fisher and David Dodman (top, centre) talk to stakeholders on a social learning project in Kenya (Photo: IIED)
Using learning partnerships to support change
… chapters in Uganda, Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo.  Urban Crises Learning Fund Urban areas are increasingly the sites of humanitarian crises, from …
Article, 24 April 2017
Woman washing dishes with a jerrycan.
To address food insecurity in Uganda post COVID-19 the government must act now
… in lockdown Ugandans from all walks of life, both in rural and in urban areas, have prayed, panicked and prepared. The situation is worse … work, paid and unpaid, during lockdown. But 10% of the population in urban areas are unlikely to have work to go back to. Forty-one per cent … out the most vulnerable when food rations are distributed during crises. We call upon the government, through a consultative process, to …
Insight, 24 September 2020
Two children in a flooded field.
Supporting child-centred resilience to climate impacts
Project, 17 February 2022