IIED core support 2019/20-2023/24

Sida's support to the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) was initially for the period 2019/20-2023/24 with a total contribution of SEK 175 000 000.a one year costed extension was made, making the total support SEK 220 000 000 for the perio 2019/202-2024/24. The support is a so called core support that is given based on the organisational strategy. IIED is one of the worlds leading international organisations within policy and action research with activities in around 60 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East and the Pacific Ocean. IIED works with some of the worlds most vulnerable communities and groups in order to strengthen their voices in arenas where important decisions are taken from local to global. The overall mission of IIED is to build a fairer, more sustainable world, using evidence, action and influence in partnerships with others. IIED focuses its work on the following thematic issue: climate change, natural resources management, sustainable markets and urban development. The core activities to deliver these objectives are to inform and contribute to strengthening policies and practices of governments, civil society, businesses and international agencies towards shaping sustainable markets, finding fairer and equitable solutions to climate change, helping building cities that work for people and planet and enabling investments in locally controlled land and natural resources. Sidas assessment is that a financial support to IIED is relevant both from a general development- and poor peoples perspective but also specifically to the Strategy for Sweden’s global development cooperation in the areas of environmental sustainability, sustainable climate and oceans, and sustainable use of natural resources 2018–2022. The contribution contributes to all the goal specifications in the strategy. During the current agreement period IIED has delivered in accordance with the goals and results specified and also have had well functioning financial control. Sida will follow the development of IIED strategy and learning framework and the organisations ambition to become a Learning organisation. It will also be important for Sida to keep following the Marine work of IIED. For the coming strategy period Sida has identified it as important to have a dialogue with IIED around the contributions conflict perspective. Sida assesses that a deeper analysis of IIEDs work from a conflict perspective is lacking and this is an area where IIED as expressed a will to work with Sida. It could, for instance, be through a conflict analysis of IIED activities.