Items tagged:
Resilience
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Urban Crises Learning Fund
Urban areas are increasingly the sites of humanitarian crises, from natural disasters to conflict and displacement. Through a programme of research, documenting and learning from experience and development of tools and approaches, IIED is working to build the knowledge and capacity to respond of humanitarian actors working in urban areas, and of urban actors facing humanitarian crises
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Lima's community-organised soup kitchens are a lifeline during COVID-19
In Lima’s informal settlements, ollas comunes – community-led soup kitchens – are reviving strong traditions of self-organised crisis response and resilience among the urban poor.
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Alada Ghor: working with low-income communities to design a rapid response to COVID-19
A group of young architects in Bangladesh have worked alongside low-income communities to develop a practical, hands-on guidebook to help residents manage the impacts of the virus
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IIED at London Climate Action Week
IIED and partners participated in London Climate Action Week, a three-day digital event from 1-3 July, 2020
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Resilience in light of COVID-19: climate action on the road to COP26
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vital importance of resilience. This event served as a framing event for resilience at London Climate Action Week
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Inequality in the face of COVID-19: how grassroots communities are taking action
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the inequalities for groups that are particularly vulnerable to disasters, such as female-headed households, children, people with disabilities, indigenous and
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Finding solutions in nature for climate change
On the International Day of Biological Diversity, IIED hosted a multi-stakeholder webinar on how to work with nature to mitigate and adapt to climate change and halt biodiversity loss. IIED senior researcher Xiaoting Hou Jones chaired the event, and here she shares some highlights from the discussions
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Learning from community planning following the Haiti earthquake
IIED has created an online learning archive to document community planning in post-earthquake Haiti
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Nature-based solutions to climate change: stories from Chile
The last-minute decision to shift the location of the UN climate negotiations from Santiago to Madrid saw committed multilateralism at work; despite the logistical challenges, world leaders have pressed ahead with these crucial talks in Spain. While the climate spotlight has moved continents, Xiaoting Hou-Jones shares stories from Chile on how nature can support adaptation efforts
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Post-crisis urban planning: lessons from Southeast Asia
New research confirms the importance of urban planning in empowering local governments and communities to manage their own recovery after a humanitarian crisis. Elizabeth Parker argues that humanitarian agencies can support the challenging planning process by sharing knowledge, experience, staff, tools and technology
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Coping with forced displacement: lessons from cities
People forced to leave their homes are often displaced for many years, and most end up in urban areas. So how can host cities become more resilient while managing such crises? A meeting last week shared learning from Africa, Asia and the Middle East, reports Diane Archer
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Reducing risks in urban centres: think 'local, local, local'
Urban centres can be among the world's most healthy places to live and work – but many are among the least. How healthy they are is powerfully influenced by local government competence, local information, and support for local action
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Addressing the needs of vulnerable groups in urban areas
For the billion urban dwellers living in informal settlements, there are many risks – for instance, from contaminated water, to accidental fires, to flooding. Those who are more susceptible to these or less able to cope are termed vulnerable. But they are not vulnerable if the risks are removed. We need to focus more on removing the risks and less on endless lists of 'vulnerable groups', argues David Satterthwaite
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Urban planning after crisis: lessons from Southeast Asia
If humanitarian agencies are to help cities recover and rebuild after a crisis, they must work closely with local governments. A new IIED-supported research project will travel to Indonesia and the Philippines to see how it's done
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New film tracks city's recovery from deadly typhoon
The documentary "Lessons from a storm" follows Tacloban City's recovery after Typhoon Haiyan
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New Urban ARK website launched
A new website profiles a research and capacity building programme focusing on urban disaster risk reduction in sub-Saharan Africa
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Urban communities are devising their own solutions to build resilience
Community-led solutions to the challenges of climate change are creating more resilient city infrastructure, researchers have found
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Collaboration and communication: how research can help cities to build resilience
As cities in Asia face up to the challenges of a changing climate, municipal authorities are finding partnerships with researchers can help inform practice and policy
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Government group network on climate change mainstreaming
An international network of government planners is sharing strategies on how to mainstream climate change into development planning
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Strengthening knowledge on urban climate resilience
IIED’s partner ACCCRN is an eight-year, multi-country initiative working with cities across the world to increase resilience to climate change
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If you want to go far, go together
How can urban development that reduces risk and boosts low-income residents' standard of living be supported? And how can community-led processes reduce poverty and build resilience? IIED staff and partners from Vietnam grappled with such questions last week in a workshop in Quy Nhon.
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Three ways developing nations can close the climate finance gaps
Progressive countries, including some of the world's poorest, are acting to green their economies and build resilience to climate change
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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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Nepal: Measuring resilience to climate change from the community up
Effective monitoring and evaluation of changes in community resilience that arise from both development and climate change resilience, can help Nepal can make smart moves to protect its people, says Susannah Fisher.
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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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To build climate resilience cities must assess diverse drivers of vulnerability
Three new studies from Vietnam show how research can help governments devise solutions that help their citizens adapt to the effects of climate change.
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Offer extended: Free access to papers on cities and climate change
The new edition of the journal Environment and Urbanization focuses on ways cities can increase their resilience to climate change.
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Least developed countries lead on low-carbon resilience
Some of the least developed countries are at the forefront of an approach that combines efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, adapt to climate change and achieve economic and social development.
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Climate resilient cities: a role for the media
Journalists can remind city officials and urban residents about ‘hidden finance’ for climate resilience, and ensure the money gets well spent, says David Dodman.
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Resilience Academies to connect climate change research, policy and practice
The academies will focus on how to strengthen the resilience of livelihoods in a changing climate.
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Smallholder innovation for resilience (SIFOR)
IIED worked with partners in China, India, Kenya and Peru to revitalise traditional knowledge-based – or 'biocultural' – innovation systems of smallholder farmers in order to strengthen food security in the face of climate change. Traditional farmers continually improve and adapt their crops and farming practices in response to new challenges, using local knowledge and biodiversity, generating new technologies and practices
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Building resilient food systems
IIED strengthens the capacity of local organisations and institutions by designing resilient food systems and sustaining local food systems.
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Introduction to building greater local control and resilience into agricultural and food systems
IIED is working to promote farming systems that are sustainable, productive and resilient – and to support smallholder farmers and farmer-led innovation
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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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3-point action plan for leaders at Rio+20 summit
The International Institute for Environment and Development urges governments to invest in resilience, strengthen local control over natural resources, and apply realistic values to the environment and human wellbeing in order to steer societies onto a more secure path.
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Lessons from the Murdoch affair
For the past two weeks, UK newspapers have charted the decline and fall of the Murdoch media empire, News Corp. It’s a story of a hugely powerful company, led by a dynasty, that exerted great influence over governments across the world. For many years, Rupert Murdoch has had easy access to 10 Downing Street, with politicians great and small seeking his approval, hoping that his media group will come out in favour of their particular party. With two police investigations underway and the abandonment of plans to acquire a yet larger share of the UK media, it looks as though Murdoch’s powerful grip on UK politics has finally been broken.
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