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PLA 49: Decentralisation and community-based planning
… an integrated planning process for an area. PLA 49 also includes more general articles, Tips for Trainers, and our usual In Touch section, which includes book reviews, events, and e-participation. This material is licensed under the  … the politics of participation Glauco Regis Florisbelo and Irene Guijt General Section Domestic abuses against housewives in haor areas of …
Article, 31 March 2004
An expert on legal issues in international climate change negotiations, IIED's Achala Abeysinghe has been named one of the world's top 15 female climate champions (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)
A champion for the most vulnerable
… and member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the UN Secretary-General, and was featured by The Conversation, an independent news … to the negotiations.  "Since 2005, the program has convened 76 events and engaged 1,626 negotiators, policymakers and policy …
News, 23 November 2015
A man points his finger at someone in a meeting room at a debate at a meeting on the sustainable development of the Amazon at Rio+20.
Five things we’ve learnt from Rio+20
… were suspicious and confused by the agenda which emerged from the UN General Assembly. This was particularly evident in the poorly-defined ‘ … with the unsustainable current economic model which the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon called an environmental "global suicide pact," and …
Insight, 03 July 2012
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PLA 45: Community-based animal healthcare
… trained veterinary doctors.   Also included in this issue are general articles, Tips for Trainers, and our usual In Touch section, which includes book reviews, events, and e-participation. This work is licensed under the  Creative … health training and creative change in Bolivia Susan E. Stewart General section The Innovation Tree: a new PRA tool to reveal the …
Article, 30 September 2002
Ol Pejeta Conservancy in northern Kenya is home to four of the seven northern white rhino left in the world. The park is using SAPA as part of its community programme (Photo: Guy Lemal)
Piloting Social Assessment of Protected Areas: some initial reflections
… impacts across different social groups is likely to reveal that the general picture is hiding important differences within and between …
Insight, 23 September 2014
Group of participants stand for a picture during the International Forest Connect workshop in Nepal in February 2013.
Forest Connect
… Uganda and Vietnam.  In later years activities moved from researching general guidance on business support practices and what to prioritise, … of what worked (and what didn't), organised international learning events and platforms to share such information, distilled findings into … interventions were captured and shared in five international learning events and through a modular toolkit for facilitators of support to …
Project, 12 September 2013
The timber depot of a Chinese-owned timber concession licensed to operate in Nampula, Mozambique. While some replanting takes place, they do not currently replace all they cut. Photo: Mike Goldwater.
China in Africa: New forum seeks sustainable, pro-poor forestry
News, 27 February 2013
Rosebell Kagumire was among the delegates at the conference discussing the post-2015 development framework: priorities for the least developed countries, in late January (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Media missing from UN drive to engage millions on post-2015 development agenda
… in the new framework, according to the report from UN Secretary General's High Level Panel. Therefore it is important that media takes …
Insight, 04 February 2014
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 10 Extract form: Research report series no. 4, February 1991: participatory rural appraisal for Nepal: concepts and methods. A guide to the slide presentation
… were not actually given by the farmers but they referred to major events, like the earthquake, in a more general time line. The slide shows information given by two informants, …
Publication, 01 January 1992
An interactive data visual that illustrates the scale and speed of urban transformation that research by IIED has sought to document and describe
IIED's best of 2014: multimedia
…  and interviews  from partners and delegates at international events. Among the 132 videos we uploaded – more than one every three … data visual competition run by On Think Tanks . Storytelling at events 2014 was the year that IIED embraced social media, particularly … of the quiz was that it would not date quickly during a period of general public holiday and it could be easily be shared on social media. …
Insight, 12 January 2015