In this month’s issue...take our end of year quiz, watch a new photofilm and visit the new Global Water Initiative West Africa website.

News and blogs

Take our end of the year quiz!

As the end of the year approaches, take our environment and development quiz to test your knowledge of the world, including questions on current affairs, geography and random facts our expert researchers happen to know. Complete the 20 questions and see where you place in our specially devised ranking system…

New photofilm profiles biocultural heritage territories

Watch our new photofilm profiling indigenous biocultural heritage territories and the role they play in development, conservation and adaptation.

IIED at COP20

IIED was involved many activities at this year's UN Climate Change Conference (COP20) in Lima, Peru. Visit our dedicated webpages for a round-up, including daily vlogs from Saleemul Huq and updates via IIED's Storify platform.

Global Water Initiative (GWI) - West Africa

We are pleased to let you know that the new Global Water Initiative (GWI) West Africa website is now live. The website is a useful resource for anyone interested in large dams, irrigated agriculture, land tenure or family farming in West Africa.

The bi-lingual French/English site brings together in one place all of our ongoing research in the form of policy briefings, factsheets and working papers, as well as regular news items, blogs and reports from our workshops and activities on the ground in the countries we work in: Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, Senegal, and Niger.

Visit the GWI West Africa website

New publications this month

This new working paper, Climate and health in informal urban settlements, guides those who are interested in the current and potential health impact of climate change on urban populations in low- and middle-income countries. Describing the sources and types of health data available to assess current disease burdens and the relative importance of environmental risk factors, it also includes how to identify sources of mortality and morbidity data in cities.

The application of TAMD (Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development) in Kenya has focused on strengthening local adaptation planning in Isiolo County in support of Kenya’s National Climate Change Action Plan. TAMD was applied in Isiolo to develop scorecards for county and ward institutions to assess climate risk management. Read the full research report, Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development in Kenya.

The UN’s Open Working Group (OWG) proposed draft sustainable development goals (SDGs) in July 2014. It is the purpose of this report to integrate the perspectives, priorities and experiences from Africa in helping to ensure that the goals gain the right contribution from forests while optimally fostering their sustainability.

Briefings

Informality and market governance in wood and charcoal value chains .

Assessing the effectiveness of investments in climate information services

Innovations for inclusivity in India’s informal e-waste markets

Register now! CBA9

We are pleased to let that you can now register for the 9th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA9). For more information and details and to register, please click on the blue box below:

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Job vacancy: Group Senior Coordinator

The Natural Resources Group (NRG) is seeking an experienced Coordinator to provide research support, coordinate internal and external Group-wide communications and to support the Group Head in reporting to donors. Closing date: 3pm Thursday 8 January 2015.
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Audience Development Manager

The Communications team is seeking an experienced communications professional with substantial experience in marketing, audience development/CRM, branding and digital platforms to provide maternity cover for one year from 1 April 2015. Closing date: 4.30pm Wednesday 7 January 2015
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