Items tagged:
Research methods
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Rethinking research and development approaches from a decolonisation perspective
Following a recent Dilemmas of Development webinar series, Tracy Kajumba and guest blogger Daniela Nemeti Baba reflect on the complexities of decolonising development approaches to research and development
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Putting gender, intersectionality and social justice at the centre of transformative responses to climate change
Twenty-five years after the landmark UN World Conference on Women in Beijing, gender equality has not been achieved anywhere. Tracy Kajumba and Clare Shakya reflect that if we want to transform society, we need a radical new approach, starting with the way we respond to climate change
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Facing a COVID-19 future: listening and learning to inform the ‘new normal’
Like many organisations, IIED has spent the last few weeks thinking about how COVID-19 will have an impact on its work in the short and longer term. Here, we reflect on some key issues
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What happened when IIED focused on research quality?
IIED publishes an outline of 'our thinking' on research ethics, an output of our most recent strategy's 'research quality' objective
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Time for a new look at social impacts of protected areas
A new framework for assessing the social impacts of protected areas will be key to ensuring conservation is effective, and contributes to human well-being and poverty reduction
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Assessing social impacts of protected and conserved areas (SAPA)
IIED has developed and is now rolling out a relatively simple, low-cost tool for assessing the positive and negative social impacts of protected or conserved areas
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Exploring how climate change interventions can work best to deliver more than the sum of their parts
Public sector planning plays a key role in making regions and countries resilient to climate change. But tackling climate change’s huge potential impacts will stretch limited public sector resources to the limit. With partners we are exploring how to use sequence and synchrony to make climate change planning, and public sector interventions, most effective — to help them deliver ‘more than the sum of their parts’.
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Three things that stop development organisations being agents of change
Many development organisations fail to become true agents of change. Liz Carlile sets out some of the obstacles and asks how we can help bring hard science and local knowledge together to provide better solutions at the community level.
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The knowns and unknowns of the global land rush
Given the challenges, developing rigorous methods to assess how the rush for land is exacerbating land scarcity and affecting people locally is perhaps the most promising way to measure the scale of the problem.
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Our research: striving towards excellence
What does excellent research mean? And how can it be achieved?
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West African farmers heard at UK Houses of Parliament
It might seem obvious that African farmers, who have successfully fed their families and, in turn, much of rural Africa, would be the first to be consulted on what agricultural research would benefit them. But a series of citizen juries, carried out previously in West Africa and facilitated by IIED researchers and partners, have revealed that much African agricultural research doesn’t meaningfully involve farmers or reflect their priorities.
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Transforming agri-food research for citizen participation and the public good
Throughout the world, public funded research shapes the choices that are available to farmers, food workers, consumers, and the environments in which they live and work.
