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10857IIED

Learning from community planning following the 2010 Haiti earthquake

… to urban crises are focusing increasingly on integrated programming and area-based approaches. This paper contributes to the emerging … These initiatives involved over 50 humanitarian organisations and resulted in both practical improvements to living conditions and far-reaching institutional changes in planning …
Working paper
  • Darren Gill
  • Laura Smits
  • Maggie Stephenson
X00122

Are alternative livelihood projects effective at reducing local threats to specified elements of biodiversity and/or improving or maintaining the conservation status of those elements? A systematic review protocol

… Alternative livelihood projects are used by a variety of organisations as a tool for … these interventions, including their objectives, vary a great deal, and there is no single accepted definition of what constitutes an … very little is known about what impacts, if any, alternative livelihoods projects have had on biodiversity conservation, as well as …
Report/paper
  • Dilys Roe
  • Mike Day
  • Francesca Booker
  • Wen Zhou
  • Sophie Allebone-Webb
  • Noëlle Kümpel
  • Nicholas A O Hill
  • Juliet Wright
  • Niki Rust
  • Terry CH Sunderland
  • Kent Redford
  • Gillian Petrokofsky
7828IIED

Rural Planning in the Developing World with a Special Focus on Natural Resources: Lessons learned and potential contributions to sustainable livelihoods. An overview

… study encompasses several conventional fields of development planning and explores innovative local planning approaches with an emphasis on land resource planning and the management of natural resources. It brings together lessons from … Resources: Lessons learned and potential contributions to sustainable livelihoods. An overview …
Issue paper
  • Barry Dalal-Clayton
  • David Dent
  • Olivier Dubois
G00171

Land in Africa: Market Asset or Secure Livelihood Conference London, November 8-9, 2004 Session on Gender, Land Rights and Inheritance

… Document begins: Land in Africa: Market Asset or Secure Livelihood Conference London, November 8-9, 2004 Session on Gender, Land Rights and Inheritance Comments by Cherryl Walker Human Sciences Research … urbanisation and the relative unimportance of agriculture, land-based livelihoods and communal tenure systems economically as well as …
Report/paper
10850IIED

Urban Refugee Economies: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

… Over 60 per cent of the world’s refugees live in urban environments, but host governments often restrict their right to work, forcing urban refugees into precarious and often informal economy livelihoods. Through a case study of Addis Ababa, where refugees have no …
Working paper
  • Alison Brown
  • Peter Mackie
  • Kate Dickenson
  • Tegegne Gebre-Egziabher
X00141

Enhancing equity through the establishment of community based monitoring

… Three parishes bordering Bwindi Impenetrable National Park were selected for community based … protected areas. Results reveal that the majority of the implementers and intended beneficiaries of the guidelines do not fully understand the …
Report/paper
  • Medard Twinamatsiko
  • Robert Mujuni
G00448

55 4 The Millennium Development Goals and natural resources management: reconciling sustainable livelihoods and resource conservation or fuelling a divide?

… Document begins: 55 4 The Millennium Development Goals and natural resources management: reconciling sustainable livelihoods and resource conservation or fuelling a divide? Dilys Roe(1) …
Report/paper
G03051

An analysis of the livelihoods in selected villages around the Bidoup Nui Ba National Park with a particular emphasis on establishing the opportunities for community based - tourism enterprises

… An analysis of the livelihoods in selected villages around the Bidoup Nui Ba National Park … … G03051 … G03051 … Le Quang Thong … Economics … An analysis of the livelihoods in selected villages around the Bidoup Nui Ba National Park …
Report/paper
  • Le Quang Thong
17729IIED

Towards holistic solutions to Nairobi’s affordable housing crisis

… Standing alongside Nairobi’s well-known slums are high-rise tenements and other ‘informal’ housing types that contravene planning and building regulations. The city is undergoing a shift from … to multi-storey tenements, and approximately 70% of Nairobi residents live in single-room units in informal settlements and tenements. This …
IIED Briefing
  • Baraka Mwau
  • Alice Sverdlik
  • Jack Makau
X00216

Harnessing employment-based social assistance programmes to scale up nature-based climate action

… of the triple challenges of global inequality, climate change and biodiversity loss becomes clearer, governments and international development institutions must find effective policy … vulnerable and marginalized groups to reduce their vulnerability and livelihood risks, and to enhance their rights and status. Substantial …
Journal article
  • Andrew Norton
  • Nathalie Seddon
  • Arun Agrawal
  • Clare Shakya
  • Nanki Kaur
  • Ina T Porras