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In Durban, a day to focus on climate communication
News, 19 December 2011
A tea picker from Cianten, within the boundaries of Mount Halimun Salak National Park in West Java, starts collecting tea leaves in a basket at 6am (Photo@ CIFOR, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Harnessing #MeToo momentum to drive climate action
… the first woman Prime Minister of Norway and former Director-General of the World Health Organization, gave the 2018 Barbara Ward … of women – is a greater struggle both during extreme weather events and with more incremental climatic changes.  Boundless energy and …
Insight, 09 April 2018
Head and shoulders image of Alok Sharma talking to a computer camera in front of the Union flag
Ministers, NGOs, academia and grassroots discuss resilience beyond COVID-19
News, 07 July 2020
South Africa: Anna with friends and family in front of her new solar water heating system. It is often more cost-effective to provide energy services to poor communities via off-grid sources (Photo: Abri le Roux, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Public and private sectors: delivering energy access for people living in poverty
… and water to 10,000 people.  Klaus Rudischhauser, deputy director general at DG for international cooperation and development : the commission's directorate-general for international cooperation and development (DG DEVCO) is …
News, 04 June 2015
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Pastoral Civil Society Quarterly Newsletter of RECONCILE/IIED Programme on Reinforcement of Pastoral Civil Society in East Africa Issue No 9 January - March 2005
… 2005, we would like to wish all our partners, collaborators, and the general readership of the Newsletter a happy, prosperous and eventful … to expand the scope of the newsletter to include items which might be general in nature, but which are relevant to pastoral issues, we appeal …
Publication, 01 March 2005
Women play a major role in the ASM sector in Ghana, as they do in all countries where ASM takes place. The dialogue meetings offered the chance to share ideas about improving working conditions and community wellbeing (Photo: Friends of the Nation)
New voices: Ghanaian miners, students and civil society representatives talk about ASM
… of dialogue in the ASM sector. [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2DycOrIOU0] Josephine Valajega is a graduate mining engineering … could contribute to the sector.  [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLHDB5YfsRE] Kofi Asaah Narkaah is the local Tarkwa representative of … Godwin Armah is a small-scale miner and secretary general of Ghana's National Association of Small Scale Miners (GNASSM). …
News, 27 October 2016
The Mercato in Addis Ababa is Africa's largest market. This month there was another major gathering in Addis Ababa as thousands of politicians, policymakers and civil society leaders came together for the third Financing for Development summit (Photo: alvise forcellini, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Why universality is a taxing agenda…
… for Development Conference (FFD) main event, the myriad side events, and a welcome chance to see at first hand IIED's work to support … deal of public anxiety – before, during and after. The two big policy events of 2015 – the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the UN General Assembly in September, and the Paris climate conference (COP21) …
Insight, 20 July 2015
People of all ages marching holding posters. One poster reads "protect all like on our planet"; another poster reads "no more blah blah blah"
COP27 and the important year ahead
Insight, 22 November 2021
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Independent Research Forum (IRF): supporting change for a sustainable future
… tasked with preparing a proposal on the SDGs for consideration by the General Assembly, as an opportunity to influence the process. … at national and regional levels, presenting at conferences, convening events and contributing to discussions with governments. For regional … became known as the 2030 Agenda was launched to the world at the UN General Assembly in 2015 – with 17 distinct but inter-connected …
Project, 14 December 2018
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PLA 55: Practical tools for community conservation in southern Africa
… developed in Zimbabwe. This edition also includes a range of general articles and a Tips for Trainers item on participatory quote …
Publication, 01 December 2006