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Independent Research Forum (IRF): supporting change for a sustainable future
… that helped give IRF a different dynamic. The team, comprising senior staff of IRF partner organisations, worked together, often in intense …
Project, 14 December 2018
This map of the covered and open drains in Jamshed Town, Karachi illustrates how communities have led on installing sewers and drains (Image: Orangi Pilot Project–Research and Training Institute)
Reducing risks in urban centres: think 'local, local, local'
… and interviews with key individuals (including local government staff and community leaders). This is the third of three blogs drawn …
Insight, 08 May 2017
Study sheds light on how public-private partnerships can bring renewable energy to the poorest
… teachers to prepare classes and for students to study. It has allowed staff and pupils to use radios, televisions and sometimes computers, - …
News, 29 July 2011
A researcher talking with a cotton farmer in Mozambique. Communicating our findings to a wide range of key audiences is central to our work (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
Communicating research – uptake, influence and change
… relationships, but we also organise regular 'learning weeks ' when staff from partner organisations spend time with the IIED communications …
Insight, 15 January 2015
Women selling fish in Nyakrom, Central Ghana. The food economy is the largest informal sector in West Africa (Photo: aripeskoe2, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Green grows the informal economy
… about integrating the informal economy begin with self-organisation. 4. Design from the bottom-up  This is about economic and policy planning … of any formalisation effort.  Sian Lewis ( [email protected] ) is a staff writer in IIED's Communications Group. Resources We published …
Insight, 10 March 2016
Forest Connect: championing local forest enterprises
… different groups have learnt from their mistakes. For example, the staff from one project that has spent almost a decade domesticating …
Insight, 24 February 2011
Maureen O'Neil and Rebeca Grynspan, the incoming and outgoing chair of IIED's board of trustees, discuss the institute's key challenges and successes over the last six years (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Trustee chairs in conversation: Maureen O'Neil and Rebeca Grynspan
… [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcKj6Ig01ew] In the first video, above, O'Neill discussed IIED's … been so successful". Part two [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOE7VIliZ7w] In the second part, O'Neill discussed the role of IIED's … mechanism." O'Neil added that a board should also support staff, saying: "We mustn't be an obstacle, we mustn't load them down …
Article, 11 August 2014
Stands of giant bamboo, in what was once degraded cattle pasture, are ready to be loaded onto trucks (Photo: Duncan Macqueen)
Bamboozled by bamboo?
Insight, 09 December 2016
Two women wearing traditional gowns stand in a maize field
EbA Evidence and Policy: China
…  to consult with communities, NGOs, and national and local government staff on their perception of EbA effectiveness. The findings will be …
Project, 13 June 2018
A road full of congested traffic.
IIED and partner events at the World Urban Forum (WUF10)
… SPA and will feature presentations by Muungano leaders and SDI Kenya staff working in Mukuru, as well as a 10-minute film using footage …
Event, 08 February 2020