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Tanzania: participatory training events for small-scale farmers can introduce the concept of climate change and help farmers identify which crops could work well in their area (Photo: Cecilia Schubert/CCAFS)
From knowledge to action – how top down training is driving bottom-up resilience in Tanzania
… NGOs. With climate change likely to increase the intensity of drought events and unpredictability of rainfall in these areas, the districts of … may be spent. This can leave them unable to respond to unpredicted events, such as the failure of a rainy season.   These rigid guidelines … they directly address climate change issues, while O&OD is very general and does not necessarily identify adaptation needs. This project …
Insight, 09 March 2015
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 11 Participatory approaches to HIV/AIDS programmes Semi-special issue
… mainly becoming infected. Therefore, most people do practitioners of general participatory not realise that they may be infecting others … of sexual health in stigmatised and thus fear to speak openly about general, and HIV in particular, on their work. it. In this way, the …
Publication, 01 January 1995
Women smallholders replanting rice in the irrigated area around the Bagré dam in Burkina Faso (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)
Water and land rights – hand-in-hand for sustainable development
… set the scene for this year's conference, made the link with two big events on development and climate: the sustainable development summit … and the human right to water recognised in 2010 by the United Nations General Assembly. Both are fundamental and bring many challenges if we …
Insight, 25 September 2015
Cover for G02141.pdf
Participatory management in public extension services (PLA 52)
… He includes examples of tools such as annual ‘activities and events’ calendars and participatory training needs assessments. Many of … health, and education. Participatory Learning and Action 52 is a general issue. It includes a wide selection of articles, extracts and …
Publication, 01 June 2005
PLA 55 cover
PLA 55: Practical tools for community conservation in southern Africa
… and Miranda Guhrs Tips for trainers:  Participatory quota setting General section Inspire: a UK participatory public art evaluation … Holly Ashley In Touch Includes resource reviews, links, events and training. RCPLA Network news News from member organisations …
Article, 01 December 2006
Man cycling in an arid landscape
When public finance shrinks, what are the priorities for climate action?
Insight, 28 March 2021
Typhoon Haiyan approaching the Philippines on 7 November 2013. Credit: NASA
Typhoon Haiyan shows why COP19 must deliver on loss and damage
… draft and have rewritten it - for two reasons. First: the terrible events in the Philippines, which unprecedented super typhoon Haiyan hit … “The climate crisis is madness.” [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yITq61XedI] Typhoon Haiyan affected his own family in his home town. … “mechanism”, ”functions” modalities”, etc – are too arcane for the general public, so they tend to see this issue through different lenses. …
Insight, 13 November 2013
IIED's animation explains what the Sustainable Development Goals are and highlights why they matter (Image: IIED/Hands Up)
Animating the universal ambition of the SDGs
… [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhKIIQIyI6s] " Bringing the ‪SDGs‬ to life: real change for real … meeting last week. It will be used in the run up to the UN General Assembly in September when leaders will agree on the final text … version of the animation can be downloaded as a .mp4 file  to use at events with no online access. We encourage you to translate the …
Article, 03 June 2015
A group of men in felt hats and woollen capes
“Public officers are also human beings”: trust and environmental governance
Insight, 08 July 2020
CANARI’s Radar tool helps small and micro enterprises assess their impacts. Here Kemba Jaramogi from Fondes Amandes Community Reforestation Project in Trinidad and Tobago presents their Radar. (Photo: CANARI)
Time to turn the PAGE?
… inclusive transitions. Kumi Naidoo, Amnesty International’s secretary general, emphasised the growing potential of biomass for energy – well, … the debate below or on YouTube . [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fiX0sTEjEc] You don’t usually hear that kind of colourful language at …
Insight, 17 January 2019