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Taking stock: community responses to COVID-19 in cities
… it would have been impossible to ignore its devastating effects. But what has been missing from discussions of the pandemic was how … who needs what Setting up community kitchens to cook nutritious meals for unemployed and vulnerable community members Providing food delivery … for informal settlements and well-planned, labour-intensive public works projects. Sharing knowledge, experience – and priorities Women …
Insight, 19 October 2021
Vendor cutting fish in the market.
Evaluating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on small-scale fisheries and its markets
… against the pandemic, though necessary, are particularly damaging for small-scale fisheries. The sector is crucial to people’s nutrition, … as well as identify solutions to move forward after the pandemic.  What is IIED doing?  IIED has joined forces with researchers from 33 … the amount that can be landed, but small-scale fishers need to land daily. In addition, the limited space onboard of small vessels can …
Project, 28 January 2021
Line of women walking through a field. One carries a basket on her head.
Promoting producer agency in agricultural value chain contracts: peer learning (in a pandemic)
… 2019. It had been due to take place in Nepal, with opportunities for field trips like there were in Blantyre, but the advent of the … sessions or sub-groups, in ice-breaker exercises (such as sharing what contracts in agricultural value chains mean to them) and in … in the context of the global pandemic, but we are still learning what works. Online learning events may create opportunities for wider …
Insight, 16 December 2020
A woman returns to a farmer village near Dodoma, Tanzania (Photo: Cecilia Schubert, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED webinar: strengthening women's rights in land governance
… women's participation in decision-making processes relating to land is often extremely limited and their voices are rarely heard. On … experiences from Tanzania'. This online seminar was designed for civil society organisations in low and middle-income countries that … bylaws in Tanzania.  The discussion addressed questions such as: What role is currently played by women in decision-making processes? How …
Event, 02 February 2016
Two women wearing face masks are sitting at a table covered in boxes and bags of vegetables. Together they are preparing food.
Reframing the pandemic: COVID-19 relief by community networks tackles roots of poverty
… some of the poorest urban residents in Southeast Asia did not wait for government aid to trickle down: they used the urgency of the … pandemic has played in the progress of their community movements.   What we learned: creating opportunity from crisis Despite the … poor, as part of their larger campaign to obtain long-term collective land tenure and secure housing.   3.  The COVID projects hinted at a …
Insight, 30 May 2022
Woman speaking with a microphone to an audience of men.
Every voice counts: addressing inequality in research and development
… mitigate the effects of climate change. Around half of the world’s land is governed by IPLCs, and this land contains around 80% of the … society organisations. Participation and representation The struggle for effective participation and rights continues, undermining global … remain limited to designs that originated in the global North. What needs to change? Co-producing knowledge Research has long been …
Insight, 16 March 2022
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Event highlights: CBA15 – 15th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change
Article, 14 June 2021
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Crucial conversations: our favourite five
… and kicked off a monthly Facebook blog series. We focused calls for blogs on the Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Tanzania where young … women’s voices count Listening was fundamental to our gender and land governance work. IIED’s Communications Group guided partner … drill down into the detail of who our audiences are, their goals and what they need from us as communicators (Photo: Anne Schulthess, IIED) …
Insight, 10 March 2020
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Assessing progress – putting IIED’s gender research ambitions into practice
… working group that built on that review by assessing in more depth to what extent and how gender and intersectionality are being embedded in … interventions aimed at strengthening women’s voices in local land governance, and improving the gender sensitivity of land policies . … intersectional approaches, such as a project with the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights in Nepal and Cambodia. The research worked with women …
Insight, 23 April 2021
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim speaking the World Economic Forum in 2017 (Photo: Jakob Polacsek/World Economic Forum, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: getting indigenous women's voices heard on the SDGs
Article, 15 May 2018