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Three people with a pile of vicuña wool
Who’s listening? Community voices on illegal wildlife trade
… Last month, leaders from across Latin America and the Caribbean met for the first time to discuss the poaching and wildlife trade crisis in … stop the illegal capture of whale sharks using education and tourism. What do communities want? At the Community Voices event, participating … on governments and all partners here to recognise and respect our rights and our role in combating IWT.” The statement outlines how …
Insight, 06 November 2019
View of the town of Pisaq in Peru, near the Potato Park Biocultural Heritage Territory
Indigenous biocultural heritage for sustainable development
… suffering racial discrimination. They face growing dispossession of land and natural resources, their cultures are being eroded by … biocultural heritage, and informed policymakers about the potential for Indigenous biocultural heritage to support sustainable development. … and secure land rights, based on Indigenous values and worldviews. What did IIED do? The project undertook participatory action-research in …
Project, 29 April 2019
Ongoing monitoring of communal toilets has helped to improve design: here, smaller toilets for children are included in adult toilet blocks. Previously children's facilities were in separate buildings and were frequently left uncleaned (Photo: SPARC)
How India's slum and pavement dwellers made sanitation affordable
… challenges in cities, it is now evident that the 2015 target for sanitation will not be achieved in many urban areas. Yet in many … with ten seats for women and ten for men costs around US$50,000. Land has to be found and its use for the toilet block agreed by … actively engage with residents. This shows local government staff what valuable allies community organisations can be. It also lays the …
Insight, 05 April 2015
Leaders of the Southern Aberdare Conservation Network (SACN) discussing support from the Forest and Farm Facility (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Taking the brakes off forest farm development in Kenya
… it to restoring forests such that they cover 10 per cent of Kenya's land area while also improving rural livelihoods. Since 80 per cent of Kenya's annual wood supply goes to meeting national demands for fuelwood and charcoal, much of it used for cooking, making forestry … so that the networks can do business Assess market demand against what farmers together might supply Build management and administrative …
Insight, 11 November 2014
local organizations
Local organizations: introduction
… that their funding supports. All poverty reduction is local. Much of what the poor require — schools, healthcare, water and sanitation, land, social safety nets, rule of law, getting onto voter registers — … Centre The Urban Poor Development Fund Uplink/UPC The Asian Coalition for Housing Rights Orangi Pilot Project (with TTRC and Zobu Goth) …
Article, 01 April 2010
CBA13 networking: IIED senior fellow and director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) Saleemul Huq in conversation with Susan Nanduddu, director of the Uganda-based African Centre for Trade and Development
CBA13: event highlights
… worked together to develop investment 'pitches' or proposals for funding. Today, in a final competition-style session, they are … a pitch for funding for a project called "Trash to Cash". The project works on waste management in the informal settlement of Mukuru in Kenya. … the climatic conditions within the community." CBA conversations: what interests you? Future potential:  data and young people Edris …
Article, 04 April 2019
First detailed study of large land acquisitions in Africa warns of impacts on poor rural people
… the trend. The study has been realized by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) at the request of UN Food and … not protected. The report highlights a number of misconceptions about what have been termed land grabs. It found that land-based investment … and be a tool for development." "The poor women and men that IFAD works with every day must not be sidelined," adds Cooke. "Their input …
News, 25 May 2009
A new sanitation block being constructed in Kibera settlement, Nairobi, Kenya. Most of Kibera's residents don't have access to electricity or running water (Photo: Sustainable Sanitation, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Finance for whom and for what?
Insight, 31 March 2015
Closing sacks of sorted plastic for recycling at the Banvari Compound at Dharavi.Credit Meena Kadri. Creative Commons. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en_GB
Work and shelter – two struggles, one reality
… livelihoods. On 22 November representatives from the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights , Red LACRE (the Latin American Network of … same from city to city. They stem from the same narrow vision about what successful cities should look like, the influence internationally … Urban social movements work to improve access to water, land and/or housing. Women are often active members as they bear most of …
Insight, 09 December 2013
Nepalese women carry wood harvested sustainably from a forest. Forests cover nearly half of Nepal (Photo: Bikas Rauniar/Department for International Development, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
REDD+ in Paris – what could be in it for people and forests?
Insight, 27 November 2015