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Guns handed in at the start of a disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration programme run by the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (Photo: Sophia Paris/UN Photo, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: How to negotiate safe access to gang-ruled neighbourhoods in areas of urban crises
… to choose between simply paying off gang leaders who threatened their staff at gunpoint, paying gangs indirectly by hiring their leaders as … that engage with gang leaders only to gain safe access for their staff. For example, by organising workshops on conflict resolution with …
Article, 15 November 2017
Wilton Park is the venue for a conference on sustainable development goals from January 29-31 (Photo: Wilton Park)
Post-2015 development framework: priorities for LDCs – coverage from Wilton Park
… out its vision for the goals and its efforts to shape them , and IIED staff provided live coverage of the conference on Twitter via @IIED  and …
Event, 29 January 2015
Cover for G02886.pdf
Everyone at Sida should do an immersion! (PLA 57)
… have taken part in immersions. This account was written by two Sida staff members following their stay with a family affected by the 2004 … the practice of immersions (see Nilsson et al., Section 4). At a time when many donors are moving further and further away from …
Publication, 01 December 2007
IIED's Communications Learning Week participants (Photo: Anne Schulthess/IIED)
More haste less speed? Taking time to learn
… with four days of mutual learning attended by IIED communications staff and partners. We held the ‘week’ in early July and since then I’ve …
Insight, 07 August 2018
Women buying bushmeat at a food stall.
How is COVID-19 affecting wild meat consumption in rural Cameroon?
… with FCTV key safeguards to ensure that project participants and staff were not put at risk from COVID-19 during the research process. …
Insight, 02 November 2020
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IIED mourns long-term partner and friend Perween Rahman
News, 14 March 2013
Nepal’s Rukum district is highly vulnerable to landslides and extreme rainfall variations. TAMD feasibility work has tested specific tools for evaluating climate change adaptation and made them relevant to the Nepalese context. (Photo: Susannah Fisher/IIED)
The Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development (TAMD) framework
… how to do TAMD for government planners, development agencies and NGO staff .   TAMD's dual approach can track adaptation at all levels and … for integration Indicator 3: Budgeting and finance Indicator 4: Institutional knowledge and capacity Indicator 5: Climate information … about transformational change. [VIDEO::https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-oQOr-M2o8] Development agencies could use TAMD to: Evaluate their …
Article, 28 October 2014
Ongoing monitoring of communal toilets has helped to improve design: here, smaller toilets for children are included in adult toilet blocks. Previously children's facilities were in separate buildings and were frequently left uncleaned (Photo: SPARC)
How India's slum and pavement dwellers made sanitation affordable
… monitoring system and the regular meetings between local government staff and the federations also produced solutions to the maintenance … actively engage with residents. This shows local government staff what valuable allies community organisations can be. It also lays …
Insight, 05 April 2015
David Satterthwaite speaking at TEDxHamburg
TEDx Talk: A small change to aid, a big impact on urban poverty
… set up to work at the local scale at which problems exist. To save staff costs, donors prefer to fund fewer large-scale projects than many …
News, 15 July 2013
Cover for G02866.pdf
Community participation: ‘activists’ or ‘citizens’? (PLA 58)
… mothers and young children with other local residents, working with staff at a pioneering local health clinic. She saw the potential for …
Publication, 01 June 2008