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Senegal
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Devolved climate finance approach forges new ways of working between citizens and state
Devolved climate finance programmes incorporate local knowledge and community priorities into decisions about how climate finance is planned and budgeted. At CBA 12, practitioners will discuss the different components of these programmes, exploring the environment when they are most effective and why, and sharing experiences from several contexts.
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IIED webinar: improving accountability in agribusiness investments
Join our webinar on 6 June 2017 to discuss how rural people can increase the accountability in agribusiness investments, looking at examples from Cameroon, Ghana and Senegal
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How devolved climate finance can deliver climate resilience at local level
IIED and partners are highlighting the potential of devolved climate finance to deliver climate funding that is equitable and responsive to the needs of local people. The organisations say that local climate adaptation planning offers significant benefits, particularly for people in poor and marginalised areas, and have released an animation that explains how decentralised climate funds operate, and the benefits they offer, that will be screened at a side event on devolved climate finance at COP22
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Seven ways to build resilient local economies in fragile contexts
Approaches developed in Mali, Senegal, Kenya and Tanzania offer insights for building resilience in areas facing risks of climate change, disasters and conflict
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Monitoring and evaluation in a local context
Assessing how climate change adaptation and development investments can strengthen local people's resilience to climate extremes
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Drylands: volatile, vibrant and under-valued?
IIED is working with partners to reassess the value of dryland resources. Understanding the productivity of drylands can be complex. It requires prediction and tracking of effects on the variable dryland climate and hydrological systems, as well as the formal and informal economies and value chains that they feed. Through this work, we hope to reveal more of the total economic contributions from dryland ecosystems to local and national economies under conditions of variable rainfall and accelerating climate change.
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ECOWAS water ministers agree to build fairer dams
The Economic Commission of West African States (ECOWAS) has approved a proposal for a directive designed to ensure future water infrastructure projects respect the environment and benefit all
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Getting to the root of gender equal land governance
A workshop in Senegal revealed that issues over equal access to land for men and women may not be as simple as they at first seem
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Local climate adaptation: bridging the funding gap
Communities often know how to adapt to changes in the climate and extreme weather events but they lack access and control over the funds which could help them put these solutions into practice
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ECOWAS encourages states to learn from returns on investment of large dams in West Africa
Government representatives and economists from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are meeting in Burkina Faso to review the economic impacts of large dams
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Decentralising Climate Funds in Mali and Senegal
IIED is part of a community of practice in Mali and Senegal supporting local government to access and disburse climate finance, investing in priorities chosen with communities for adapting to climate change. Including local knowledge and experience in government planning is vital to the success of the investments.
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Legal and social accountability tools in agricultural investments in West Africa
A wave of large-scale acquisitions of farmland for plantation agriculture has taken place in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Developing tools to improve accountability is critical
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Large scale irrigated rice farming: the state must take farmers' perspectives into account
New report by the Global Water Initiative stresses importance of considering views of farmers in agricultural policies
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Ensuring water is equitably allocated and governed
We can only survive without drinking water for a few days – it’s crucial for our survival. Water is also crucial for supporting people’s ways of life, from raising livestock, to managing fisheries and irrigating crops. In many parts of semi-arid West Africa water is in short supply and the pressures on existing water resources are set to increase. IIED aims to help bring about fairer and more sustainable water governance that ensures poor and vulnerable communities don’t miss out
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Five moments from 2012 that could spell change for the planet
The big events and non-events from this last year that could have long-term repercussions on the sustainable development of our planet, from IIED's Director.
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A Chinese farm in Africa
Chen promotes new agricultural techniques in China, but he dreams of farming in Senegal because he wants to share his skills and do something meaningful.
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Five ways to bring benefits from large dams to local communities
A study into how large dams in West Africa have affected local people has identified ways to share the benefits of future dams more equitably and create development opportunities for communities.
