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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
… alliance of 10 in-country groups of partners in Cameroon, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and … 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
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IIED's best of 2021: publications
… South.   Local governments and grassroots organisations have led urban responses that have been pivotal in shaping the pandemic’s … Yet policymakers have had only a limited focus on the pandemic’s urban dimensions.  Holistic interventions will be vital to address the … also carrying out research on how social protection schemes such as India’s social protection programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural …
Article, 17 December 2021
COP24 will take place in Katowice's landmark congress centre and exhibition hall (Photo: Umkatowice, Creative Commons via Wikipedia)
IIED and partner events at COP24
… Climate Resilient Rural Development Date: Thursday, 6 December Venue: India Pavilion Partner organisations: UK Department of Business, Energy … and NYDF Assessment Partners Download the full agenda for D&C Days Urban and peri-urban Ecosystems play crucial role in mitigation and adaptation …
Event, 02 December 2018
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Event highlights: CBA15 – 15th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change
Article, 14 June 2021
Hội An, Vietnam: in many towns in the developing world, street vendors constitute a significant share of total employment in the informal economy (Photo: Khánh Hmoong, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Green economy must work for street vendors as well as Wall Street
… economy play an important role in climate change mitigation. In India, street traders and home-based workers – representing 11 per cent and 18 per cent respectively of all urban workers – are likely to leave a smaller carbon footprint than … counterparts.  In developing countries around one per cent of the urban workforce is engaged in recycling, one of the cheapest and fastest …
News, 24 February 2016
Mary Tiffen headshot
Remembering Mary Tiffen, a drylands pioneer
… would earlier be derived from cattle sales, and later from the urban employment of some household members. Mary’s work made an … in air raid precautions. After the war, Mary and her mother moved to India, then Mary finished her schooling in Devon, and took a history …
Article, 01 June 2020
women distributing counting eggs
New narratives for a 'new normal'
… now run a country-wide network of women and children’s centres.  In India, grassroots women in earthquake-affected areas became … leaders from many countries – including Honduras, Jamaica, Turkey, India, Uganda, Zambia, Indonesia and Philippines – to travel within and … were drawn upon to give livelihoods restoration loans. In India, women’s federations worked with village councils to distribute …
Insight, 22 July 2020
The experiences of mountain communities in Kyrgyzstan were shared at a learning exchange (Photo: Alan Zulch)
Mountain communities stress the importance of biocultural heritage for global food security
… and natural resource rights are infringed and young people migrate to urban areas. Climate change is expected to put an added strain on food … and biocultural heritage territories in the Eastern Himalayas in India and Yunnan, China.   The Kyrgyzstan workshop culminated in the …
News, 15 February 2019
A wildfire burns a forest. A man climbs a fire engine and another one, wearing a mask, walk on the road.
Sounding the alarm: new IPCC report reinforces urgency for G20 to take stronger climate action
Insight, 09 August 2021
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Tools for Inclusive Cities: the Roles of Community-Based Engagement and Monitoring in Reducing Poverty
… members of slum/shack dweller federations in Jinja (Uganda), Pune (India) and Harare (Zimbabwe) as well as visits to projects where the … Urban …
Publication, 01 June 2014