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Newsletter, September

How we're making change happen in the era of COVID-19; pathways to environmental justice; a CBA14 Twitter chat and more in this newsletter.

Making Change Happen in the era of COVID-19

Coronavirus has changed our ways of working and being, perhaps irreversibly. In a recent think piece, IIED director Andrew Norton takes stock of the impact on our strategic approach, exploring the pandemic’s implications for our five global challenges. He considers IIED’s changing priorities and ways of working, before indicating how we might support worldwide efforts to ‘build forward’ to sustainable, fair and inclusive development pathways.

Read the think piece now.

Plants growing in rows on a roof in Barcelona.

Guest blog by Isabelle Anguelovski

COVID-19 highlights three pathways to achieve urban health and environmental justice

The pandemic is an opportunity for cities to dramatically rethink use of housing, transport and public spaces in ways that would serve all citizens, especially the socially vulnerable.

Read the guest blog.

"Decades of social injustices have placed low-income and minority communities at greater health risk and economic disadvantage – they now face the further burden of the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic consequences."

– Isabelle Anguelovski

A person wearing a straw hat bends over in a rice paddy.

Join the Twitter discussion

Twitter chat: CBA14 – from local solutions to global action

Join Practical Action and IIED for a Twitter chat on 8 September to discuss how to scale up local climate action. The Twitter chat will use the hashtag #CBA14.

Find out more about the chat and planned questions.

Register for CBA14: the 14th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change.

A boy wearing a baseball cap standing in the middle of a dirt road lined with concrete buildings.

Article by Deena Dajani

Displacement and the pandemic

In our fifth report on emerging lessons from COVID-19, published to coincide with the recent World Humanitarian Day, we look at how the pandemic is affecting displaced people.

Read the article for insights on the risks refugees and displaced people face as they struggle to build dignified lives.

Nature: ecology & evolution. Welcome to the anthropause.

Open access opinion piece

Conserving Africa’s wildlife and wildlands through the COVID-19 crisis and beyond

The SARS-CoV-2 virus and COVID-19 illness are driving a global crisis. Governments have responded by restricting human movement, which has reduced economic activity. These changes may benefit biodiversity conservation in some ways, but in Africa, we contend that the net conservation impacts of COVID-19 will be strongly negative.

Read the opinion piece.

IIED jobs

We're hiring

French speaking monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) officer:
This position will strengthen the MEL’s team capacity to deliver robust MEL activities across group projects and to deliver evaluation projects externally, by supporting the MEL team to undertake evaluations and research, manage projects and share lessons.

Find out more and apply by 15 September.