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Natalie Lartey

Advocacy and engagement manager, Communications

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Expertise

Natalie is leading IIED's work to address racism in internal discourses, and external narratives about sustainable development. This work is built from her experience designing and delivering strategies that engage Black people, and people of colour, in environmental and development lobbing and campaigning.

Natalie is an advocate and communicator, who leads agenda setting and policy influencing initiatives that bring social justice and anti-racist approaches to her specialist areas of child and maternal nutrition, food systems, farming, and fisheries. Her previous work at IIED focuses on advocacy and communications skills building, mentoring and peer learning.  

Before IIED

Before joining IIED, Natalie worked in advocacy and communications roles for a range of environmental, development and humanitarian organisations including Concern Worldwide, Action Against Hunger, Living Space Project, and Greenpeace International and UK.  

Natalie completed a graduate traineeship in digital publishing at IPC Media Group Limited. 

Education
BA (Hons) in information and publishing studies, Loughborough University.

Current work

Natalie has designed and is leading IIED work to better understand how the analysis of research and content products can be used to explore issues of racial identity and representation.

Natalie is a member of the IIED anti-racist working group.

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Email: 
natalie.lartey@iied.org
Twitter: @mrs_nlartey
Languages: English, French (intermediate)

Latest publications

Strengthening capacity for advocacy in food systems of the poor

Strengthening capacity for advocacy in food systems of the poor

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Natalie Lartey's blog posts

Woman adding stickers to a poster on the wall

The inconvenient truth about ‘capacity’ strengthening in global development

Blog, Dec 2020
A woman holding signs

Why global development needs Black activism

Blog, Jun 2020
A dish of amatehe

Protecting indigenous foods, preserving biodiversity – the solutions are in nature

Blog, May 2020
The Sustainable diets for all programme recognises that people – with their capacity to innovate and power to drive change – must be at the centre of efforts to reshape our failing food systems (Photo: © Mauricio Panozo of Lucano photography. Bolivia, La Paz)

How people are providing evidence, and influencing to get food policies that work for them

Blog, Apr 2018
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50 years linking local to global

Find out more about IIED’s plans in our 50th birthday year: our achievements and what comes next…

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