Communication blogs
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Room for optimism on Africa, the "hopeful" continent
21 October 2014Climate expert Fatima Denton from the Economic Commission for Africa will say it's time for more optimism on Africa and climate change at an IIED lecture to celebrate Barbara Ward's birthday
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Hama Arba Diallo: the universal man
10 October 2014Youba Sokona pays tribute to his fellow Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group member Hama Arba Diallo, who passed away in late September
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Q&A: Why the PCLG website is the place to be for poverty and conservation issues
9 October 2014The PCLG website is at the heart of the Poverty and Conservation Learning Group. It has been relaunched with a new look and updated content
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Uganda: Is art the answer to communicating about climate change?
10 September 2014Can art communicate the impacts of climate change more effectively than facts and figures? Uganda's Kabarole Research and Resource Centre is finding out
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Social learning event features case studies from around the world
4 August 2014A social learning event held in June featured case studies from across the world. Participants agreed to further strengthen and more thoroughly evaluate the social learning aspects of their work
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Which factors are key for successful social learning?
14 July 2014A workshop organised by IIED helped put the final touches on a forthcoming monitoring and evaluation framework, summarising key factors that influence social learning processes
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A vision of our world that is sustainable, fairer and realisable: memories of Barbara Ward
27 May 2014For 40 years, Barbara Ward set out the case for a fairer, more just world system. David Satterthwaite, a colleague of the IIED founder, offers some personal insights
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China-Africa relations: Fresh perspectives from Chinese journalists on environmental challenges
2 May 2014By increasing Chinese reporting on Africa, its public can learn about the environmental and development challenges associated with Chinese investment and consumption decisions
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How do we best create long-term impact that matters to smallholder farmers?
9 April 2014We need a plan. A plan that will guide us towards achieving real impact for smallholders around the world
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Three steps for reaching the right audiences in an information-saturated world
27 March 2014Liz Carlile describes three activities that help IIED understand and engage with its diverse audiences
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Paving the way for social learning in the climate change context
24 March 2014Social learning has been identified as an approach that has the potential to improve the quality of stakeholder participation in and uptake of research
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Making the business case for biodiversity — in an instant
10 March 2014Life's too short for long, dull text – and when life itself is the topic, it is critical to get the message across in a quick, clear way.
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Media missing from UN drive to engage millions on post-2015 development agenda
4 February 2014Rosebell Kagumire says consultations on the future of global development framework should involve journalists or they will fail to reach the masses.
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Making it real: social learning in practice
9 December 2013Our review of the literature and in-depth interviews confirmed five top tips for success in putting social learning into practice.
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Can beans and dice change lives? The potential of serious, fun games
19 November 2013The power of games to get people thinking about their climate vulnerability was revealed this weekend at Development & Climate Days.
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Playing climate change — can games unblock the negotiations?
15 November 2013Everyone loves a game. Putting some fun into the serious subject of climate change can be a powerful way to explain risk and the hard choices we face.
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Climate resilient cities: a role for the media
27 September 2013Journalists 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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Virtual conferences: not in the future, but now
3 May 2013In this digitally connected world, could virtual participants meaningfully follow and take part in an IIED conference, cutting carbon footprints and expense?
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CBA7: Live debate on climate change adaptation tweet-by-tweet
9 April 2013Read highlights from a fast-moving live online chat on how the poorest and most vulnerable can act to adapt to climate change.
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Time to join the dots on environmental murders
28 February 2013In recent days the blood of environmentalists has flowed once again. A man in China got beaten. A man in Thailand was shot dead.They are just the latest in a long, and fast growing, list of people whose exposure of environmental crimes has made powerful men their enemies.
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Chinese media in Africa
11 December 2012The ‘Chinese media dragon’ is raising its voice in Africa—and drawing criticism. So how much is cultural bias, and how much legitimate concern?
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Climate change communication: 'A' is for audience
7 December 2012Suriya Begum is a poor young mother from Bangladesh. When her photograph appeared in a media story about climate change earlier this year, it was only so the article could show a victim — not so it could share her views.
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People power critical for tackling climate change
26 November 2012As understanding of the severity of climate change rises, it’s increasingly clear that a negotiated global agreement on climate change is not enough – civil society has a central role to play too.
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Three things that stop development organisations being agents of change
23 November 2012Many development organisations fail to become true agents of change. Liz Carlile sets out some of the obstacles and asks how we can help bring hard science and local knowledge together to provide better solutions at the community level.
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New ways to communicate climate change and adaptation - is it time for something “loopy”?
19 October 2012We know that real change takes place when we learn by doing, and as development specialists we are all very good at telling people what to do. But as researchers and practitioners engaged in a shared learning process for change we still have a very long way to go.