In this month’s issue...find out about our work on the informal economy, read our latest publications and register for our annual community-based adaptation to climate change conference.

News and blogs

The biggest 'private sector': what place for the informal economy in green and inclusive growth?

IIED and partners are hosting a conference in London next month, designed to help build a new policy agenda to integrate the informal economy with inclusive green growth and sustainable development. The event will take place on 25 February 2016 and participants will have the opportunity to discuss the informal economy, hear international case studies and look at ways to reconcile informality with inclusive green growth. Informal economies will be reviewed in diverse contexts – from food distribution and mining to forestry and waste collection. To register your interest in attending please email informality@iied.org.

What's happening to aid to the Least Developed Countries?

New figures show an overall decline in aid to the world's Least Developed Countries, yet commitments made in Paris and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda call for more aid, not less. In his recent blog, IIED director Andrew Norton asks, what's happening to aid to the Least Developed Countries?

Mapping for food safety

Communities in Nairobi’s informal settlements are creating and using maps to ensure their food and the people who sell it are safe. Our interactive long read explains how and why.

Decentralised climate adaptation funds

IIED and partners are working in Mali, Senegal, Kenya and Tanzania to pilot local climate adaptation funds (CAFs). These funds channel climate finance down to the decentralised level so that communities can invest in tried and tested climate-resilient solutions. Experiences from these decentralised funds were shared at COP21 in Paris. Our work in Mali [PDF] and Senegal [PDF] is through the Decentralising Climate Funds (DCF) project, part of the UK government-funded BRACED programme and implemented by the Near East Foundation (NEF) with Innovation, Environnement et Développement en Afrique (IED Afrique) and IIED. Find out more about our work on CAFs in Kenya and Tanzania.

Featured publications

International investment treaties are an important part of the legal frameworks governing foreign investment. Land deals and investment treaties: visualising the interface measures the extent to which investment treaties apply to agribusiness investments initiated as part of the recent wave of large-scale land deals in low and middle-income countries. This paper has been produced under IIED’s Legal tools for citizen empowerment project.

The Indonesia Domestic Biogas Programme: can carbon financing promote sustainable agriculture? This report, the second of two biogas partner studies by the Hivos-IIED Learning Trajectory Programme on payments for ecosystem services, looks at the Indonesia Domestic Biogas Programme to understand the potential of carbon-offset funding in relation to smallholder agriculture.

Few cities in South Asia have been affected by violence more than Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city and economic centre. The working paper, Public and private control and contestation of public space amid violent conflict in Karachi examines the impacts of the city’s declining security situation on the control and contestation of public space.

Briefing papers

A whole-landscape approach to green development in Africa

Fruitful change: rural-urban transformation in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta

Creating a new menu for food security policy

Event: Register now | 10th Community-Based Adaptation to climate change conference

Early bird registration is still open for the 10th Community-Based Adaptation to climate change conference (CBA10) which takes place in Bangladesh later this year.

Date: 22-28 April 2016
Theme: Enhancing urban community resilience

The conference is organised in partnership with the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS), the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), and the Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB).

Find out more and register

Job vacancy: Finance assistant

IIED's Finance Group is looking for a finance assistant to support both the operational and project teams within the finance function in carrying out data uploads, reconciliations and checks. To perform general ad hoc finance tasks as required.

Closing date: 3pm (GMT), Friday, 5 February, 2016

Job vacancy: Senior finance officer

IIED's Finance Group is also looking for a senior finance officer to maintain and provide oversight of the purchase and sales ledgers and the associated controls; ensure that payments are processed, and income allocated in a timely manner.

Closing date: 3pm (GMT), Friday, 5 February, 2016

Find out more and apply

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