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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
… how they can truly 'transform our world' through implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) . I have been looking back at the Millennium … first introduced, last month's agreement on a universal framework for sustainable development is awe-inspiring. But the challenge of … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 09 October 2015
Five people posing with signs that read "gentrificado"
What does queer have to do with it?
Project, 15 November 2022
People sitting around a stable, discussing and listening.
CBA19: Move from words to equitable action on locally led adaptation
… The landscape of global climate and development finance is undergoing a significant transformation. … change on the most vulnerable communities and the threat it posed to sustainable development, as well as to recognise the limitations of top-down …
Insight, 25 June 2025
A series of rainbow flags outside a building.
Heteronormativity in the development sector: where are we now?
… The sustainable development sector has made significant advances to champion social inclusion, equity and participatory processes. Yet mainstream development agendas have struggled to consider gender and sexual … diversity. This online event explored how heteronormativity in the development sector has evolved over the past decade, and why we need …
Event, 08 December 2022
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Urbanisation Concepts and Trends
… and rural population prospects) There is an emerging consensus that urbanisation is critically important to international development, but considerable confusion over what urbanisation actually … urbanisation trends. It ends with a brief review of urbanisation and sustainable development, concluding that while urbanisation brings …
Publication, 01 June 2014
Diagram showing the traditional channels for delivering aid (Image: IIED)
Money where it matters: local finance to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement
Article, 25 January 2017
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From risks to resilience: action research into informal workers' health and wellbeing in Indore, India
… other developing countries. These interventions can advance several Sustainable Development Goals, notably SDG 11 on cities, SDG 13 on climate action, …
Publication, 22 September 2022
Aerial view of an informal settlement and an urban centre in the background
Rethinking household surveys reveals true picture of health inequality
… in this series have highlighted the lack of data on health and other development issues in informal settlements – despite the fact that, as … in their work at community, city and city region level to meet UN Sustainable Development Goals – as well as meeting goals for climate change …
Insight, 18 January 2022
Aerial view of informal housing.
Data to drive informal settlement upgrading. Who generates it – and who owns it?
… her or his country is doing regarding the UN’s water and sanitation Sustainable Development Goal (SDG6) . Equally, international agencies do not want … SDI, was very clear about how the different actors engaged in urban development had different data needs and that slum/shack dweller …
Insight, 03 March 2022
Investments in community infrastructure – like this canalside walkway in Bangkok – can help to build resilience for low-income urban residents. Funding for this type of local improvement should be a priority for climate change financing (Photo: Ruth Mcleod)
Financing urban resilience
Project, 30 March 2015