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Kenya
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Indigenous food systems, biocultural heritage and agricultural resilience
IIED is working with partners in the UK, China, India and Kenya to establish a new partnership and network for interdisciplinary research on indigenous food systems. The aim is to link humanities academics, agriculture researchers and indigenous peoples to design new interdisciplinary research on indigenous food systems past and present, from farm to plate, and enhance evidence on the role of indigenous crops in agricultural resilience
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Harnessing the power of bees to benefit forest and people
To mark the International Day of Forests earlier this week, we’re sharing a story about a beekeeping project that’s helping to conserve Kenya’s Loitokitok forest and support the surrounding community
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Critical theme: Can insurance promote human wildlife co-existence?
Join us for a discussion about the potential role of insurance in mitigating human-wildlife conflict.
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Planting pilot has vision to nurture young tree ambassadors
Guest blogger Joanes Ooko Odero reports from Kenya on a new tree-planting initiative
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How can we incorporate local knowledge into climate planning and policy? …Maps!
In Kenya, participatory mapping makes it possible for indigenous knowledge to be included in planning and policy where for too long it was excluded, showing technology can bring people’s voices to power
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Planning for reality in one of Nairobi’s largest ‘slums’
High levels of participation and a readiness to reconsider conventional approaches have led to promising plans to upgrade the Mukuru informal settlement in Nairobi
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Supporting adaptation through local-level climate finance: lessons from Kenya
Kenya’s transformational County Climate Change Fund (CCCF) mechanism demonstrates how to get climate funds to the local level and involve the people who are most vulnerable to the hazards of a changing climate in deciding how to spend them
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Rebalancing power in the Kenya-UK green bean value chain
Farmers and workers often struggle to influence decision-making and trading patterns within global value chains. A recent IIED webinar discussed an initiative to overcome hurdles for farmers and workers to secure a stronger voice and influence trading arrangements within the Kenya-UK green bean value chain
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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 CBA12, 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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Assessing governance at protected and conserved areas (GAPA)
IIED is developing a multi-stakeholder-led methodology for assessing the quality of governance at protected areas and other conserved areas.
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Responding to climate change in Kenya by strengthening dryland governance and planning
The Kenya Adaptation Consortium is demonstrating that local climate adaptation planning, supported by county government-managed devolved funds, informed by community priorities and enhanced by climate information services, renders significant benefits for people in poor and marginalised households in the most drought prone areas
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A special approach to slum upgrading: the Special Planning Area in Mukuru, Nairobi
The idea of a Special Planning Area might not immediately be alluring. But for the residents of Mukuru, one of the largest 'slums' in Nairobi, this mundane phrase hides the potential for a radical transformation in their homes and lives
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Insuring against climate risk in Kenya
Vincent Mutie Nzau from the National Treasury of Kenya highlights how innovative approaches to disaster risk finance can help communities manage climate uncertainty
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Funding local adaptation in Kenya: nationally vs. locally managed funds
How do nationally and locally managed climate funds compare in creating impact on the ground? Guest blogger John Nyangena weighs up the pros and cons of each approach
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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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IIED webinar: Using community by-laws to secure customary land rights in Kenya
Join us for a webinar on 16 November 2016 to discuss how communities can use by-laws to secure their land rights
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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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Accessing climate finance in Kenya
Devolved powers are allowing communities greater access to climate finance in four counties in Kenya
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CSR practices of Chinese businesses in the global South
Can Chinese business engagement ensure sustainability and benefit the poor? Our research suggests complex factors shape their operations – of which Chinese policies play only a minor role
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Protecting land and community resources in Africa
Rural communities across Africa face a variety of threats to their claims to customary and indigenous land and natural resources. Advocates working to support these communities must draw on a range of experience and expertise. The NGOs Namati and Natural Justice brought together experts to consider the issues and published the results in a new book of 18 case studies
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Lessons from the informal sector
Could the informal economy provide the way forward for the green growth agenda? Ahead of an IIED event on 25 February, Mao Amis looks at lessons that can be learned
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Nourishing livelihoods: the food vendors sustaining Nairobi's slums
Selling food in Nairobi's informal settlements can provide cheap meals and create vital livelihoods, especially for women, but these providers are usually ignored and remain invisible
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Lessons in informality from Kenya's dairy sector
Informal markets are at the heart of many developing country economies, but how can authorities work with the informal sector? A training and certification scheme for Kenya's informal dairy sector provides valuable policy lessons
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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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Informal food vendors: urban food security's invisible experts
One in three urban citizens in Asia and Africa live in informal settlements. It’s time to consider their priorities when shaping urban food security policies.
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Shadows in the child's memories
The 9th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation featured stanzas as well as sessions and statements; rhyme as well as reason. Here, guest poet Evah Wanjiru shares some environmental verse based on her experiences in Kenya
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CBA9 highlights – day four
The production of the Nairobi Declaration on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change was the headline news on the fourth and final day of the 9th International Community-Based Adaptation Conference (CBA9) in Nairobi on 30 April
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CBA9 highlights – day three
Ecosystem-based adaptation was at the top of the agenda on the third day of the 9th International Community-Based Adaptation Conference (CBA9) in Nairobi on 29 April
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Musings from a first timer at a CBA conference
Bangladesh has become a "poster child" for adaptation work. For people working at a national level, attending CBA9 provides an opportunity to learn and share experiences internationally
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CBA9 highlights – day two
There was a focus on learning through game-playing on the second day of the 9th International Community-Based Adaptation Conference (CBA9) in Nairobi on 28 April
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Slaughterhouse five
Guest blogger Hannah Reid reports back from a CBA9 field trip where she discovered how a slaughterhouse can help fight climate change
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The 9th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to climate change begins in Kenya
The 9th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA9) will be held in Nairobi, Kenya, from 27-30 April, 2015
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CBA9 highlights – day one
Judi Wakhungu, Cabinet Secretary of Environment, Water and Natural Resources for the Government of Kenya, gave the keynote address as the 9th International Community-Based Adaptation Conference (CBA9) got under way in Nairobi on 27 April
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Using the law for resource justice
Large-scale resource development can threaten people's land and environment. Now a new initiative is bringing grassroots organisations together with international lawyers to fight for resource justice
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A community of doers: celebrating the CBA conferences, and looking forward
As CBA9 delegates convene in Nairobi, Pablo Suarez, associate director at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre reflects on what makes the conference a regular event in his calendar
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A new approach to climate resilient drylands agriculture
A new book that hopes to provide some fresh perspectives on drylands development will be launched in Nairobi on 28 April
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How to be heard at CBA9
IIED's communications team is providing comprehensive coverage from the 9th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA9). Kate Wilson outlines why such global exposure is important
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CBA9 highlights – pre-conference field trips
A round-up of the CBA9 participants' experiences and photographs during a series of field trips to experience at first hand issues related to community-based adaptation to climate change and measuring and enhancing effective adaptation
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The economics of local adaptation in the dryland ecosystems of Isiolo County
Investments to support pastoralists in Northern Kenya to adapt to the changing climate pay immediate dividends – but the benefits are even greater if the indirect impacts can also be taken into account
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Award win highlights collaboration for Kenya climate resilience
A consortium working to support climate change adaptation in Kenya has won a prestigious UK award. The Adaptation Consortium is a partnership of six organisations, including IIED
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CBA9: 9th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA9)
The 9th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to climate change (CBA9) took place in Nairobi, Kenya from 24-30 April, 2015, hosted by the Government of Kenya
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Taking the brakes off forest farm development in Kenya
Kenya needs to fix a wood demand-supply gap of 12 million m³ per year. So the launch of the Forest Farm Facility in Nariobi on 6 November was timely
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Piloting Social Assessment of Protected Areas: some initial reflections
With the global forum on protected areas, the World Parks Congress, just two months away, it's a good time to consider our experience with the Social Assessment of Protected Areas (SAPA) initiative
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China-Africa relations: Fresh perspectives from Chinese journalists on environmental challenges
By increasing Chinese reporting on Africa, its public can learn about the environmental and development challenges associated with Chinese investment and consumption decisions
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Kenya's new climate fund listens to community ideas for building resilience
"Climate consists of so many things to us," says Ibrahim Shone, a pastoralist in Isiolo County in Northern Kenya. "It's not only weather, it's also about how we prepare for droughts and diseases, and find enough grass for our animals. These things change with the seasons."
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Up in the air: Citizen scientists map food dangers in Nairobi
A balloon, a camera and some interviews are helping researchers map a hidden aspect of food insecurity in an informal settlement in Nairobi
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Kenya: The importance of cross-border dialogue in the drylands
A meeting between two pastoralist groups has reduced tensions over grazing land and could lead to a cross-county platform for negotiating access to resources during droughts
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Six nations to share progress on measuring adaptation to climate change
The governments of six countries will share their experiences of assessing the effectiveness and developmental impacts of climate change adaptation, at an international meeting in Kenya on 24-27 March.
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Chinese journalists to share learning from reporting trip to Kenya
Six Chinese journalists who won fellowships to report from Kenya will share their experiences at a meeting in Beijing on 21 March
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Wanted: Community wildlife conservation success stories
Ensuring local communities benefit from wildlife is key to successful conservation in the long term and can also help to fight the illegal wildlife trade. Share your community success stories with us on World Wildlife Day.
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Communications learning week (February 2014): highlights
From 24-28 February, members of the International Institute for Environment and Development communications department organised a series of sessions to explore common themes with partners in Kenya and Ethiopia.
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Kenyan local climate fund's success heralds expansion to 29% of nation
A pilot project to support adaptation to climate change at the local level in Kenya's Isiolo County has been such a success that it is being replicated in four more counties, to cover a combined 29 per cent of the nation. The move is significant as it shows how county governments could access global climate finance, which is set to rise to US$100 billion a year by 2020.
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Maps that build bridges
Thanks to digital participatory mapping, pastoralists are proud of their local knowledge and policymakers want to act on it.
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Assessing social impacts of protected and conserved areas (SAPA)
IIED has developed and tested a relatively simple, low-cost methodology for assessing the positive and negative social impacts of protected areas, and is now supporting its roll-out
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Community maps reveal rich resources of land policymakers think is empty
Misperceptions of the drylands as barren and empty are leading to their mismanagement. An IIED mapping project aims to create a clearer picture of their value to pastoralists.
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Current policy narratives limit climate resilience in world’s dry regions
Partial narratives that underpin policymaking prevent people in arid regions from fulfilling their potential to provide food and sustain resilient livelihoods in a changing climate.
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Share the love this Valentine’s day with fairer flowers and chocolates
Here’s a step by step guide to the issues so you can both impress your lover with lovely blooms or choccies and your new-found knowledge on how to share the love more widely.
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SOKO: Learning lessons on how to add value to the East African apparel sector
With London Fashion week almost here, the fashion industry can learn lessons from SOKO, a Kenyan textiles supplier, on how to produce great fashion that also improves local livelihoods.
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Resilient Dynamism? An informal word with leaders meeting in Davos
Political and business leaders gathering in Davos will discuss ‘resilient dynamism’, but their distrust of informal economies is a missed opportunity.
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Understanding the political economy of the Climate Investment Funds
IIED is examining the ideas, resources and ‘power dynamics’ that shape how the Climate Investment Funds achieve development impacts. Together, these factors make up the ‘political economy’, and examining them will help governments and development organisations understand how climate investment funds can best bring about the transformational change the funds aim for.
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Educating nomads
IIED temporarily hosted the design phase of the Education for Nomads programme between October 2009 and September 2010. This was while the institutional arrangements for its management were transferred from SOS Sahel UK to the Ministry of State for the Development of Northern Kenya and Other Arid Lands in Kenya
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New perspectives on climate-resilient drylands development
From 2012 to 2016, IIED worked with partners to show that, with supportive policies, drylands can be sustainable and highly productive ecosystems where pastoralists manage uncertainty and maximise productivity.
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How do we tell whether climate change adaptation is making headway?
IIED and its partners are developing tailored frameworks to help developing countries evaluate their climate adaptation investments.
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New business models can spell success for African farmers
A major international project has provided insights into how small-scale farmers in Africa can improve their livelihoods by building sustainable trading relations with international businesses in the food industry.
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New fund to help Kenyan communities adapt to climate change
On 29 October, the government of Kenya will launch a new fund to help communities in the north of the country adapt to climate change and other development challenges.
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Why following the herd can be good for Kenyan media
Kenya’s pastoralists have an image problem. Their negative depiction by the Kenyan media ignores their knowledge and skills, which have led them to become a cornerstone of the country’s economy.
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What’s in a narrative? In policy, everything or nothing
Narrative means story, right? But not if you work on development policy, where narrative means something quite different: a framework for action, but one that can create problems if left to roll like a stone down a hill on its own.
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How markets can bloom for Africa's smallholder farmers
New deals between flower-growers in Kenya and big retailers such as Walmart offer African farmers a chance to expand.
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A day in the life of a commercial consultant
Find out how IIED, a Kenyan flower business and a consultant get flowers grown by smallholder Kenyan farmers onto the shelves of a UK supermarket.
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What makes a citizen?
Citizenship is a topical issue in the UK: it’s a compulsory school curriculum subject and immigrants are required to sit a Citizenship exam to show their knowledge of their adoptive country. But what does `being a citizen’ really mean?
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New business models for sustainable trade
Millions of farmers in Africa depend on export markets for their livelihoods, but small farmers were missing out on this market
