For the second year in a row, social protection, loss and damage and debt relief are the hot topics in IIED’s 10 most ...

As 2024 draws to a close, we're showcasing some of the content we've published during the last 12 months. Our insights offer ...

In early December, donor governments met in Korea to agree the replenishment of the International Development Association ...

Crisis narratives, as defined by Emery Roe, are simplified cause-effect stories that policymakers and donors rely on to ...

Climate change disproportionately affects the poorest people in the world. We work with policy and research partners to redress the balance by helping the poor in low and middle-income countries ...

IIED's Human Settlements programme works through partnerships to create towns and cities that are sustainable, prosperous, resilient, healthy and safe, and inclusive and equitable. We do this by ...

This book is a challenge to those who see the drylands as naturally vulnerable to food insecurity and poverty. It argues that improving agricultural productivity in dryland environments is possible by ...

Recovery from COVID-19 provides a historic opportunity for giving greater voice to local people — especially women, youth, children, disabled, displaced and marginalised ethnic groups — and putting ...

Foreign direct investment is often characterised as an attempt to annex the resources of a foreign country - as terms such as "land grab" bear out. Host countries are increasingly responding with ...

IIED’s emphasis on effective monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) reflects our determination to make change happen. We are committed to continual learning – from our work, each other, our ...

Rather than looking separately at urban and rural areas and what matters to each of them, it is vital to look at the linkages between them: it is from here that lasting change will come. Ejura Market ...

Housing finance remains a major obstacle to home ownership in countries such as Malawi, especially among low-income earners. Many have decried the tendency of commercial banks to demand expensive ...