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Newsletter, June

Nominate your outstanding women in development, reply to our briefing survey, read news on our submission to the UN High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement, and latest coverage on COVID-19 from our partners.

Tina Katushabe, from Change a Life Bwindi, is helping women in Uganda to improve their livelihoods by weaving baskets (Photo: copyright Change a Life Bwindi)

Outstanding women in development

The latest in IIED’s biennial Barbara Ward Lecture was scheduled for June 2020, with Rebeca Grynspan as the guest speaker. This latest in our series of lectures given by the current generation of outstanding women in development, in honour of IIED's founder, has now been postponed until 2021 when we can find the right time to reconvene.

Nevertheless, IIED still intends to use this time and opportunity to celebrate outstanding women in development. This underlying theme and spirit of the IIED lecture series shows our support for all women doing amazing things in our sector, and IIED’s staff have come together to nominate some outstanding women.

See the nominations so far and tell us who you think is an outstanding woman in development

Take our survey

Last chance: fill in our briefings survey

We want our policy briefings to have the maximum impact, so we would like to get your views. This survey should take about 10 minutes to complete and will provide us with valuable information to help us shape the content and format of our briefings.

Please tell us what you think

Taking part in this survey will provide us with valuable information to increase our impact.

Displaced people from the Libyan town of Tawargha living at a military academy in the city of Tripoli (Photo: EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid via Flickr, CC BY-ND 2.0)

News

IIED and partners call for cities to develop a proactive response to urban displacement

IIED and partners' submission to UN High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement calls for a complete rethinking of how government and other actors respond to internal displacement in urban areas.

Find out more and read the submission

A community handwashing station in Iloilo (Photo: copyright Asian Coalition for Housing Rights)

Guest blog by Theresa Carampatana and Rolando A Tuazon

Community-led COVID-19 response: the work of the Philippines Homeless People’s Federation

Based on member interviews and accounts, the Philippines Homeless People’s Federation describes how community organisations have rallied to support vulnerable groups, hit hardest by the pandemic.

Read the guest blog

COVID-19 has forced some food vendors in Fort-Portal to shift to selling fresh food to keep earning money during lockdown in Uganda. But there aren't many customers and food perishes quickly (Photo: copyright Kabarole Research and Resource Centre (KRC))

Guest blog by Christopher Busiinge

Uganda’s hungry food vendors: counting the cost of COVID-19

Interviews as part of a new study in Fort-Portal show how lockdown restrictions are leaving Uganda’s food vendors hungry and vulnerable.

Read the blog

Research report, 129 pages

Women’s empowerment through collective action: How forest and farm producer organisations can make a difference

This research report explores different organisational structures and social and cultural services from a gender-equality and women’s empowerment perspective. More specifically, it examines how access to social and cultural services can facilitate women’s participation in economic and political life.

Download the report

Working paper, 84 pages

FishCounts: increasing the visibility of small-scale fisheries in Cambodia’s national planning

Artisanal and family fishing make a significant contribution to Cambodia’s economy and food security. This report explores the current state of Cambodia’s fisheries and the data that would be needed to develop a set of fisheries satellite accounts through the System of Environmental and Economic Accounts. It proposes a phased approach to build on what already exists to create greater visibility for the contribution of small-scale fisheries to the national economy.

Download the working paper

Briefings

IIED briefing papers

Places to prosper: engaging with youth migration in forest landscapes

Securing land rights in Cameroon: what hasn’t worked and what should be done

Farmer–herder conflict in Africa: re-thinking the phenomenon? / Conflit entre agriculteurs et éleveurs en Afrique : repenser le phénomène?