A green recovery from COVID-19? Not without climate, nature and development solutions
COVID-19 has made the world stop and think. What kind of future do we want? And what recovery measures will get us there? An IIED event at London Climate Action Week last month made the case for an inclusive and equitable green recovery that places climate, nature and development at its heart.
IIED senior researchers Ebony Holland and Karen Wong Pérez give a report on the event in a recent blog, where a video recording of the event can also be found.
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Assessment tools
Assessing the social impacts, governance and equity of conservation: SAPA, GAPA or SAGE?
IIED has developed three practical and relatively low-cost tools for stakeholders and rights-holders of a protected or conserved area to assess their social impact, the quality of governance and the equity of conservation.
Find out more about the tools.
Find out more about and apply for the Small Technical Grants for Assessment (STGA) from BIOPAMA.
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Author Q&A with Hannah Reid
A framework for assessing the effectiveness of ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation
A chapter in the book 'Resilience: The Science of Adaptation to Climate Change' outlines a question-based framework developed to qualitatively assess the effectiveness of ecosystem-based adaptation.
Co-author Hannah Reid discusses the framework, how it was developed, and why it’s timely.
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Make Change Happen podcast episode 8
Debt swaps for climate and nature: innovation for resilience?
Debt swaps for climate and nature could offer great gains for the wellbeing of the planet as well as helping to relieve debt pressure on developing countries. But they are a controversial idea.
In this episode of the Make Change Happen podcast, we discuss their potential and their challenges.
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Blog by Rosalind Goodrich
Making natural capital accounting an institution in Uganda
After joining a workshop to hear about some of Uganda’s recently completed natural capital accounts, Rosalind Goodrich reflects on what it takes to make this approach a fixture in government policy and process.
Read the blog now.
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Our partners' perspectives
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News
New small grants initiative will support activities related to great apes conservation and development
Applications are now open for grants, managed by the People and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG), that address important great apes related conservation and development issues in Cameroon, DRC or Uganda.
With support from the Arcus Foundation, the grants which range from US$500 to $5,000, are designed to support activities in one or more of the three great ape range states starting in March or April until June 2021.
Find out how to apply.
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Multimedia storymap
Ecosystem-based adaptation and green recovery: building back better from COVID-19
The Friends of EbA (FEBA) network has created a storymap that showcases the potential of ecosystem-based adaptation for building resilience to complex crises, with stories and photos from communities around the world.
Check out the storymap.
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Project
Forest and Farm Facility Phase II
The Forest and Farm Facility is a partnership hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) that strengthens forest and farm producer organisations (FFPOs) to secure their rights, organise their businesses, sustainably manage their forests, and provide social and cultural services to the poor and marginalised.
Co-managed by FAO, IUCN, IIED and Agricord, it has a unique focus on FFPOs including women, youth and indigenous peoples as primary agents of change. Read more about the programme and download the 10 country case studies that show nature-based solutions in action.
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Toolkit, 68 pages
Wild meat alternative projects: practical guidance for project design
This guide provides practical advice for conservation experts on how to design projects to reduce the consumption of wild meat by promoting alternative sources of protein. There is no one size fits all approach to successful project design, but in five comprehensive steps, it explains how practitioners can develop the right project for the community in which they work.
Download the toolkit in English / en français.
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Project report, 56 pages
Biodiversity mainstreaming: A review of current theory and practice
This report explores the current status of mainstreaming biodiversity into production sectors — in theory and in practice. It explores a number of key concepts of biodiversity mainstreaming. A review of the literature reveals that while the literature on mainstreaming continues to evolve and improve, its development is hampered by an inconsistent use of terminology and approaches. The report concludes that an empirical framework is needed, as well as more and better ‘stories’ that will allow the narrative will change.
Download the report.
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Project report, 52 pages
Biodiversity mainstreaming in Global Environment Facility projects: A review of current practice
Theories of change (ToCs) have increasingly been recognised as valuable tools for project design, adaptive management and evaluation of impacts. This report seeks to answer a number of key questions about biodiversity mainstreaming — particularly focusing on the ToCs that have been used, and the causal pathways within them, across a sample of GEF projects.
Download the project report.
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