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India
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Data to drive informal settlement upgrading. Who generates it – and who owns it?
Guest blogger Sheela Patel joins David Satterthwaite to reflect on the data needed to drive, inform and crucially support informal settlement upgrading. And how and by whom is it generated and used?
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Building resilience to climate change through slum upgrading – the case of Jaga Mission in Odisha, India
Citing the case of Jaga Mission, guest blogger Antarin Chakrabarty suggests that high-quality, community-driven slum upgrading programmes can contribute to climate change resilience
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Planning ahead: how the CRISP-M tool advances early climate action
A new digital tool combining scientific climate risk information with local and traditional knowledge is helping communities in India manage climate risks more effectively
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Multiple housing and climate-related vulnerabilities of informal workers in Indore, India
While informal workers in Indore, India contend with multi-faceted vulnerabilities, recent research shows a gradual transition towards resilience. Guest bloggers Siddharth Agarwal and Kanupriya Kothiwal discuss the findings.
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Indigenous Peoples and forest communities are central to tackling the climate crisis – but they need finance
Forests, and the communities who protect and manage them, are critical in tackling climate change and nature loss. From COP26, guest blogger Gustavo Sánchez explains why they can no longer be ignored in the distribution of climate finance and describes a new fund that gets money directly to local forest level
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Launch of the CRISP-M tool
A new digital tool that combines scientific climate risk information with the traditional knowledge, practices and skills of communities to help Indian communities undertake climate risk management more effectively was launched at this online event on 13 October
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Street vendors and garbage pickers need protection from climate extremes
Around two billion people globally are considered informal workers, in jobs like street vending, agriculture or collecting and recycling plastic rubbish. Many earn on a daily basis and lack savings, healthcare or other social protections. So they typically can’t afford to stop working in the face of COVID-19 and other emergencies
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Indigenous Peoples’ food systems and COVID-19
In the run up to the UN Food Systems Summit in September 2021, the International Network of Mountain Indigenous
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How India’s civil society rose up in the face of COVID-19
As the pandemic overwhelmed India’s public systems and cut off the livelihoods of millions, civil society organisations offered a lifeline to the cities’ poorest and most vulnerable residents
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Drought management in India: hostage to climate information governance
While communities in India affected by climate change, and the agencies that support them, need access to short and long-term weather forecasts to plan their responses to increasingly erratic rainfall, the current climate information governance system stops this from happening. The system needs reworking
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Reimagining solutions to India’s water challenge: the art of governance
Clare Shakya and Ritu Bharadwaj explain why India’s water security crisis demands a disruptive, locally led new approach to governance, and offers eight principles that could help shape one
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Enhancing climate resilience impacts of India’s social protection programme
IIED is supporting the world’s largest works-based social protection scheme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), to deliver climate resilience impacts for vulnerable rural communities in India
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Bridging the gap: how women-led federations are strengthening communities in Patna's informal settlements
Following devastation from COVID-19 and monsoon rains, women collectives have been instrumental in securing crucial infrastructure provisions and service delivery
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Are India’s social protection schemes ‘future fit’?
COVID-19 has highlighted the value of India’s social protection schemes for the extreme poor. With some tweaking, these schemes can be true game changers
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Experience sharing on long-term strategies (LTS) in least developed countries
IIED hosted a webinar to explore the experiences of least developed countries as they develop their long-term strategies to address climate change. The event showcased the opportunities coming out of the process and provided a space to discuss challenges and concerns among participants
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Why we need to plug the climate information gap in social protection schemes
Being prepared to respond to hazards can dramatically reduce risks of livelihood loss for India’s rural poor
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COVID-19, JAGA Mission and the value of already existing solutions
Guest blogger Antarin Chakrabarty reflects on one Indian state’s successful programme to provide work and incomes to migrants, enabling a rapid and efficient government response when crises such as COVID-19 hit
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Responding to COVID-19 in a high-density low-income district in Mumbai
A representative from a grassroots federation in Mumbai describes how the community is self-organising for an effective COVID-19 response
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Indigenous food systems, biocultural heritage and agricultural resilience
IIED is working with partners in the UK, China, India and Kenya to establish a new partnership and network for interdisciplinary research on indigenous food systems. The aim is to link humanities academics, agriculture researchers and indigenous peoples to design new interdisciplinary research on indigenous food systems past and present, from farm to plate, and enhance evidence on the role of indigenous crops in agricultural resilience
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We need more than business as usual, to leave no one behind
In the latest blog in our series exploring how business and investors can contribute to achieving the SDGs, Rijit Sengupta discusses the challenges and opportunities for businesses in India seeking to raise the bar on sustainability
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Unsmart, unsafe cities for informal workers: effective policy change will need better data
How can urban health policy be effective when the data on residents’ and workers’ leading causes of premature death, illness and injury is inadequate? A new project with partners in India seeks to fill the data gaps and support informal workers’ well-being
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Q&A: Women in rural India are nature’s guardians
Reetu Sogani describes the special bond between women in India and the country’s natural resources – a connection that positions them as key preservers and managers of biodiversity. Despite this, women’s voices often go unheard in policies intended to support biodiversity conservation
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Addressing risks facing informal workers
IIED and partners are assessing the occupational, environmental and public health risks faced by workers in the informal economy. This project will also explore responses to these risks with workers in India and Zimbabwe, while also helping to build their resilience to climate change
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Data that supports local development
Global goals and targets often rely on national data, but local data are needed to inform action on the ground and to monitor progress on the goals
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Biocultural heritage territories film now in Spanish
A visually stunning photofilm that profiles three biocultural heritage terriritories and their role in biodiversity conservation and locally determined development is now available in Spanish. Biocultural heritage territories protect indigenous and traditional land tenure and use land management to preserve fragile ecosystems and promote locally determined patterns of development
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Fieldnotes from two cities in India: learning about social learning and climate uncertainty
How can urban planners deal with the unpredictable future impacts of climate change? IIED researchers visited two Indian cities to see how a learning-based approach can help
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Finding solutions for less poverty and better ecosystems
Policy measures to tackle poverty often overlook environmental impacts, while environmental policies do not always deliver for the poor. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) require both – so how can governments combine efforts?
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Farming on the city's periphery to enhance resilience
Farming land on the edge of the Gorakhpur, India, can help boost the city's flood defences, support livelihoods and reduce migration, finds guest blogger Nivedita Mani
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How India's slum and pavement dwellers made sanitation affordable
In India, slum and pavement dwellers' organisations have designed and managed a programme of community toilets and washing facilities that are used by hundreds of thousands of households. Guest blogger Sheela Patel describes how this was achieved
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New photofilm profiles biocultural heritage territories
IIED has released a new photofilm profiling indigenous biocultural heritage territories and the role they play in development, conservation and adaptation
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Let's see what the BRICS teach us about urbanisation and economic growth
Our new interactive visualisation demonstrates the dynamics of urbanisation and economic growth in different countries. The visualisation shows that countries have very different dynamics from each other, which has implications for their economic, social and even environmental prospects.
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Sustaining local food systems and agricultural biodiversity
How and under what conditions can decentralised governance, capacity building and participation by farmers promote food systems that adapt to changing conditions and climates and maintain agricultural biodiversity?
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The least developed countries, equity, and a brave new world
For the first time, all of the world’s major carbon emitters – including China, the US and India – will be legally bound to a new global climate agreement that reduces emissions. But, HOW?
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Current policy narratives limit climate resilience in world’s dry regions
Partial narratives that underpin policymaking prevent people in arid regions from fulfilling their potential to provide food and sustain resilient livelihoods in a changing climate.
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Valuing variability
Dryland communities have learnt to harness the variability of their highly unpredictable environments to support sustainable and productive economies, societies and ecosystems. In the face of climate change, development policy everywhere should draw on their knowledge and experience
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BRICS urbanisation provides lessons for economic growth and social equity
Towns and cities across Africa, Asia and Latin America have a wealth of lessons to learn from the BRICS nations – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – according to research published today.
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Basic service provision shouldn’t just be a money maker
Are utility companies forgetting that their core function is to provide services and not just make money?
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How communities are protecting their biocultural resources with community protocols
As delegates gather for the 11th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity this photostory looks at why two communities in India and Borneo have developed community protocols.
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What’s in a narrative? In policy, everything or nothing
Narrative means story, right? But not if you work on development policy, where narrative means something quite different: a framework for action, but one that can create problems if left to roll like a stone down a hill on its own.
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Supporting smallholders: markets, rights, or sovereignty?
But, according to one speaker at the event, smallholders aren’t helped by either.
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Policy that works for biodiversity and poverty reduction
IIED worked to understand how policy, economics and governance affect community-based initiatives, and how to better engage with governance in order to scale-up community initiatives and reduce poverty
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