Spotlight on climate negotiations for the Least Developed Countries and what does IIED mean to you? Complete our survey and let us know. 
February 2016
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News and blogs
Slum settlement in Mumbai

Why we do slum profiles


In his recent blog, Jockin Arputham, founder of the National Slum Dwellers Federation in India, explains the benefits of developing a slum-dweller led strategy for securing land tenure and services.
 

Flaming parrots and palmetto palms


A new business opportunity could help protect Belize's Yellow-headed parrots and benefit local communities as well. IIED principal researcher, Duncan Macqueen explains how in his latest blog.
Giza Gaspar Marins : the climate negotiator for the LDCs

Spotlight on...The climate negotiator
At this years UN climate change conference in Paris we spent 36 hours with the lead climate negotiator for the Least Developed Countries. Take a look at our interactive long read and find what we learnt about negotiating for the world's poorest. 

New publications this month
Foreign investment, law and sustainable development: A handbook on agriculture and extractive industries, explains how to use law to make foreign investment work for sustainable development. It aims to provide a rigorous yet accessible analysis of the law regulating foreign investment in low and middle-income countries – what this law is, how it works, and how to use it most effectively.

This paper has been produced under IIED’s Legal tools for citizen empowerment project.
The International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (INMIP) aims to exchange traditional knowledge and seeds for climate adaptation and food sovereignty and to protect biocultural heritage and farmers’ rights.  ANDES and IIED teamed up with the Mountain Society Development Support Programme of the Aga Khan Foundation in Tajikistan and SwedBio at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, to organise the second learning exchange in Tajikistan and this report presents the results.
To deliver on the post-2015 agenda, it is clear that traditional forms of development aid will no longer be adequate and that new forms of governance, partnerships and financing – particularly between public, private and informal economy actors – will be required. This new report draws on a series of case studies to consider what works, bringing together an initial evidence base to help inform effective aid and business intervientions for sustainable development, with a particular focus on those which involve and support small- and medium-scale businesses.

Briefings


Advancing equity in protected area conservation

Informal food systems and food security in rural and urban East Africa

Engaging communities to combat illegal wildlife trade: a Theory of Change
These houses built on stilts in Dhaka, Bangladesh, are a good example of urban initiatives adapting to climate change

EVENT: New conference speakers announced 
There is still time to register for the 10th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA10), taking place in Bangladesh this April. 

The conference runs from 21-28 April and this year's theme is 'Enhancing urban community resilience'. Confirmed speakers include: 
  • Prof. David Satterthwaite, senior fellow, Human Settlements Group, IIED
  • Dr Andrew Norton, director, IIED
  • Prof. Omar Rahman, vice chancellor, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB)
  • Dr. Cynthia E. Rosenzweig, adjunct senior research scientist, Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University
  • Kaveh Zahedi, director and regional representative, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Find out more and register

Job vacancy: Senior coordinator (Communications)


The Communications Group at IIED is seeking a professional administrator to take lead responsibility in providing strategic support to the director of communications in the management of the budget, finances, administration and internal communications within the team

Closing date: 10am (GMT) on Thursday, 24 March

Job vacancy: Head of business development


The head of business development will play a critical, cross-organisational role focused in developing IIED’s future fundraising strategy. 

Closing date: 12pm (GMT) Tuesday 8 March 2016

Job vacancy: Monitoring, evaluation, gender and learning advisor


The Strategy and Learning Group at IIED is looking for an M&E professional to strengthen the organisation's capacity to plan, monitor, evaluate and learn for increased effectiveness, relevance and influence; to ensure that IIED offers equal opportunities and outcomes to men and women within the organisation; and to pursue a gender transformative agenda seeking to influence others to work towards a more gender equal and inclusive sustainable development agenda.

Closing date: 12pm (GMT) Thursday 10 March 2016
 
Find out more and apply
 
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