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Illustration showing a Java rhino
Harnessing carbon finance to arrest deforestation: saving the Javan rhinoceros
… combat the major threats to the National Park. Training of government staff in REDD techniques will help this rapidly-growing initiative to …
Project, 22 June 2011
A woman holds up woven baskets
Nominating your outstanding women in development
… support for all women doing amazing things in our sector, and IIED’s staff and others have come together to nominate some outstanding women. … favourable courtroom rulings. [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuQ6xtm7kq8] “Currently, Kumvana is also responsible for a project … me) often faced," says Nipunika. [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQjPjwGYGtE] Priyanthi Fernando highlights barriers to empowerment, …
Article, 15 June 2020
Cebu, Phillipines
6th World Urban Forum: will the agenda of slum and shack dwellers ever get considered?
… leaders, but also by local government or national government staff that work with them. For example, in a session on potential …
Insight, 07 September 2012
Street in Karachi, Pakistan with overflowing sewage.
The real issue is universal access to affordable basic services
… documented and discussed among both government and development agency staff alike, surely a critical first step is a universal standard to …
Insight, 14 August 2012
From decentralised finance to legal tools, this map showing real examples of innovative governance from around the world highlights seven tried-and-tested methods of empowering local institutions (Image: IIED)
Mapping innovative governance for sustainable development
Article, 24 November 2015
GWI influence - access and rights to irrigated land - planting rice - Selingue dam - Mali
Global Water Initiative: Mali
Project, 16 February 2018
IIED director Camilla Toulmin speaks in a plenary session on day one of IIED's Fair Ideas event in Rio de Janeiro, June 2012 (Photo: Tom Broadhurst/IIED)
The things that make me proud
Insight, 22 June 2015
PLA 37: Sexual and Reproductive Health
… Group on Children and HIV; UK NGO AIDS Consortium  Helping NGO staff (and then community groups) analyse reproductive health & gender …
Article, 01 February 2000
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative: "No more hanky panky"
… effectively. Where it is going? The Initiative, and its board and staff are now being encouraged, primarily by civil society, to do more - …
Insight, 11 March 2011
An early sunrise at COP14 in Poznan (Photo: Friends of the Earth, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
COP14 UN Climate Change Conference
… and Virtual Poznan.  [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T5IN_Q9WRw] Development and Climate (D&C) Days IIED and partners … we should prepare for a rise in global mean surface temperature of 4 °C – even though most impact and adaptation research is based on 2 °C. … in 2008, along with feature and opinion articles written by IIED staff. It is intended to show the range of ways in which the institute …
Event, 20 December 2008