Items tagged:
Pro-poor
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Bwindi: bees, baskets and brilliant guided walks
Tracking rare mountain gorillas is on the bucket list of many a traveller – both at the luxury end of the market and for backpackers. But what about the people who live in the same places as gorillas? Dilys Roe reports on a project helping local people to develop new businesses that benefit from tourism
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Why social inclusion matters for green growth
From wetland protection in South Africa to scrapping fossil fuel subsidies in Indonesia, the best climate policies are pro-poor
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Wildlife crime and poverty: what are the links?
Is poverty a driver of wildlife crime? What impacts does wildlife crime have on poor people? And what impacts do responses to wildlife crime have on poor people? A new report looks for answers
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Built on collaboration: how conservation research can benefit local people
A collaborative research project into effective conservation in Uganda showed that building relationships with the authorities can be crucial, resulting in immediate action to tackle a problem, benefiting some of the poorest in the community
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How can we finance sustainable energy for all?
Leading politicians and thinkers are being urged to make sustainable energy available to all. Achieving this goal requires research in how people and communities use energy and how sustainable energy can be financed
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Universal energy access: combining public and private sector efforts
Donors, governments and businesses need to collaborate more strategically to finance pro-poor energy access. This is a key message from a new IIED discussion paper Sharing the Load
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IIED director Camilla Toulmin on policies for equality
Camilla Toulmin, director of IIED, discussed policies that foster equality and the need to tackle those which keep poor people poor when she was interviewed for a podcast produced by SciDev.Net
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Conservation works better with social justice
Poverty threatens wildlife conservation despite widespread efforts to integrate conservation and development so that local communities benefit. So what's going wrong? Our research suggests it's social justice that's missing.
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How best to deal with wildlife crime while protecting the poor?
A new project will explore the different reasons people commit wildlife crimes and suggest ways governments can respond without harming the poorest communities
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Building capacity for pro-poor responses to wildlife crime in Uganda
A project to build capacity for pro-poor responses in Uganda through learning more about the interactions between wildlife crime and poverty
