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International days are used to promote awareness and action on important topics. But how does IIED engage with them? (Image: IIED)
Seizing the day without falling off the bandwagon
… and highlight the often neglected circumstances in low-income urban communities. We highlighted our Urban Matters blog , which focuses on inclusive cities, promoted the 254 … content appears. Matt Wright ([email protected]) is IIED's web planning and content manager. …
Insight, 19 November 2015
Gatekeeper series: Local organization Profiles
… hunters and gatherers. Read more and download GK137f: The Urban Resource Centre, Karachi Arif Hasan, August 2008 This … in recognition to Karachi’s anti-poor and environmentally destructive planning process. It created an information base about Karachi’s … and has promoted alternatives. Read more and download GK137g: The Urban Poor Development Fund in Cambodia: Supporting Local and City-wide …
Article, 01 April 2010
Top publications of 2018
IIED's best of 2018: publications
… is emerging, such as: linked National Evaluation Policy and action planning (Nepal); recognition of the SDGs’ complexity when considering … is both challenging and different from business incubation in urban settings and includes detailed case studies of efforts to deliver … are increasingly the sites of humanitarian crises , from natural disasters to conflict and displacement. IIED is working to build the …
Article, 21 December 2018
COP17 in Durban: Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC Christiana Figueres and the President of COP17, South Africa's Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane (Photo: Michael Mazengarb, Creative Commons via Flickr)
United Nations climate change negotiations: IIED at COP17
… The  2011 D&C Days programme  focused on "evidence-based adaptation planning", with presentations covering issues such as how to generate … Better economics: supporting adaptation with stakeholder analysis Urban adaptation planning: the use and limits of climate science Ecology, equity and …
Event, 20 December 2011
Protesters march and carry climate-related placards
IIED and partner events at the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit
… that connects people and freight markets, vulnerable rural and urban communicates, including energy system transformations in both. …
Event, 23 September 2019
CLACC Fellows gather in Durban, South Africa
Capacity Strengthening in Least Developed Countries for Adaptation to Climate Change (CLACC)
… and forestry, and fed this information into national adaptation planning and international decision-making.  The first research topic … in their countries. This information was fed into national adaptation planning (including NAPAs) and international decision-making processes. … and cities. This acknowledged the lack of attention given to how urban areas in the poorer nations will cope with climate change impacts. …
Project, 05 September 2008
This sewage treatment plant in Delawas, Jaipur, was funded by the Asian Development Bank. There are concerns omitting local people from decision-making processes can lead to climate funds not sufficiently representing local priorities (Photo: Asian Development Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Getting Green Climate Funding to the local level
… some local funds, such as the County Adaptation Fund in Kenya and the Urban Poor Funds , have shown that involving local people and local … standards and safeguards through institutionalised County Adaptation Planning Committees and Ward Adaptation Planning Committees. This approach is now also being tested at …
Insight, 28 October 2015
Supporting Adaptation to Climate Change: What role for Official Development Assistance?
… and secondly, through mainstreaming adaptation into development planning to achieve climate resilient development. It will be proposed … general education and health services, improving living conditions in urban settlements, and providing access to financial markets and … change of Bangladesh, it was the occurrence of three major natural disasters in the last two years, coupled with evidence of increased …
Article, 14 November 2008