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Egypt: Local Recruitment: Emergency Response: WASH Officer, Israel and Gaza Response

Oct 27, 2023 | Americares

Americares is a health-focused relief and development organization that saves lives and improves health for people affected by poverty or disaster. Each year, Americares reaches…


Ukraine: MEAL Manager - Dnipro

Oct 27, 2023 | Action Contre La Faim

The recent development in Ukraine have led over 5.7 million refugees to flee over the borders from Ukraine and a further 7.7 million have been…


Ukraine: Programme Policy Officer, Kyiv, Dnipro, Odesa, Lviv, Ukraine

Oct 27, 2023 | World Food Programme

The World Food Programme (WFP) celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages…


Yemen: Consultancy for Climate Change Impact Assessment on Livelihoods in IDP Sites, Yemen

Oct 27, 2023 | War Child

War Child UK is an international humanitarian agency working to protect children living in some of the worst conflict-affected places in the world. War Child…


Conflict Sensitivity Officer - Roster

Oct 27, 2023 | World Food Programme

The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.  The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero…


France: Local Recruitment, WASH Director

Oct 27, 2023 | Relief International

Relief International (RI) is currently recruiting a Director of WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) to join its Programsteam, the role to be based in Paris, France. This…


Ethiopia: WASH Governance and Management Advisor (Ethiopia Nationals)

Oct 27, 2023 | SNV Netherlands Development Organisation

SNV is a mission-driven global development partner working in more than 20 countries across Africa and Asia. Building on 60 years of experience and grounded…


Remote: Development of an E-Learning Offer (MOOC) on the Triple Nexus in WASH and the Joint Operational Framework: WASH Resilience, Conflict Sensitivity and Peacebuilding

Oct 27, 2023 | German Toilet Organization

The creation of a Joint Operational Framework to integrate resilience, conflict sensitivity and peacebuilding into existing and new WASH programmes using a nexus approach was…


Ukraine: WASH Programme Manager Ukraine

Oct 27, 2023 | Norwegian Church Aid

Joint Country Programme (JCP) of Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) and DanChurchAid (DCA) are seeking dedicated Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) Program Manager to join its…


Sudan/South Sudan/Abyei: Oil-Rich and Extremely Poor: Inside the Forgotten ‘Abyei Box’ – a Photo Essay [Photos]

Oct 26, 2023 | Sean Sutton, Guardian

The Abyei region, rich in oilfields and lush pastures, has long been disputed. Its contentious status, exacerbated since South Sudan’s independence in 2011, has brought…


Ukraine: Ukrainian Farmers Share Their Stories, Agricultural Challenges during Wartime

Oct 26, 2023 | Jonah Foster, Columbia Missourian

Roman Grynyshyn and Roman Gorobets, two citizens from Ukraine, spoke Thursday evening in the Anheuser-Busch Natural Resources Building about wartime challenges farmers face in their…


Integrating Gender Perspectives to Prevent or Reduce Climate Crisis Impacts

Oct 26, 2023 | Welthungerhilfe

We cannot overcome the multiple crises facing our world, including the climate crisis, the lingering impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ongoing food and…


We Have Entered the Age of ‘Climate War’. Crimes against the Environment Must Be Prosecuted

Oct 26, 2023 | Richard J. Rogers and Moneim Adam

For decades, the prospect of violent human conflict fuelled by the environmental stresses of climate change has been predicted by human rights experts. Extreme weather and…


Israel/Palestine/Gaza: How Bombings, Blockades and Import Bans Caused Gaza’s Water System to Crumble

Oct 25, 2023 | Damien Gayle, Guardian

Even before Israel’s latest campaign of bombing began two and a half weeks ago, Gaza was facing a multilayered water crisis. The territory had suffered…


Afghanistan: Communities Being Formed to Prevent Disputes over Water

Oct 25, 2023 | Yousuf Zarifi, Pajhwok Afghan News

Authority in eastern Nangarhar province says it has started forming cooperative communities to prevent disputes over irrigation water in rural communities.


Iraq/Kurdistan: Oil Companies in Iraqi Kurdistan to Resume Production a Month after Agreement

Oct 25, 2023 | Amr Salem, IraqiNews

The Iraqi Prime Minister, Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani, revealed on Tuesday that foreign oil companies operating in the Kurdistan region of Iraq informed the Iraqi government…


Climate Change: Four Climate Frontiers: How Mediators Can Make Peace and Help Protect the Planet

Oct 25, 2023 | Sebastian Kratzer, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue

This article by Sebastian Kratzer from HD’s Mediation Support and Policy Unit is based on a panel discussion at the EU’s 2023 Peace Mediation Community…


Africa: Climate Change Turns African Rivers into Epicentres of Conflict

Oct 24, 2023 | Maina Waruru, Inter Press Service

Almost all major river basins in Africa have become the epicentres for conflicts over the last 20 years, and agricultural yields on the continent could…


Israel/Palestine: In Palestine and Israel, De-Escalating Conflict through Environmental Action

Oct 24, 2023 | Daphne Chouliaraki Milner, Atmos

Dr. Tareq Abu Hamed, the first Palestinian executive director of the Arava Institute, an Israel-based academic institute focused on transboundary climate solutions, explains how environmental…


Q&A: Ritwika Mitra’s Reporting on Gender Shows Climate Change’s Fingerprints

Oct 24, 2023 | Covering Climate Now

For the past couple of years, freelance journalist Ritwika Mitra has focused much of her work on communities at the “front lines” of the climate…


The State of Play for Critical Mineral Policies: A Berlin Climate Security Conference Roundtable

Oct 23, 2023 | Claire Doyle

The global transition to low-carbon energy is spurring new momentum to produce and secure the mineral inputs necessary for renewable technologies. Yet meeting demand may…


Israel-Palestine Conflict: How Sharing the Waters of the Jordan River Could Be a Pathway to Peace

Oct 23, 2023 | Zafar Adeel

When the Israeli government cut off supplies of water to the Gaza Strip following Hamas’s brutal attack, it put the role of water within human…


Iraq/Israel/Palestine: Did the Iraqi Prime Minister Threaten to Cut Oil Supplies over Gaza?

Oct 21, 2023 | Palestine Chronicle

At a ‘peace summit’ in Cairo, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani made a strong statement regarding the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza. But considering…


Myanmar: Battling the Shadow of Deforestation: Community-Led Efforts to Combat Deforestation in Myanmar's Shan State

Oct 20, 2023 | UN Office on Drugs and Crime

Opium cultivation in Myanmar's Shan State had been significant decreasing over the past decade, offering hope for the region's ecosystem and the local Shan communities.…


Peru: Peru Grants Land Rights for 300MW Solar Project

Oct 20, 2023 | Bnamericas

Peru’s energy and mines ministry granted permanent occupancy easement for Engie Energía Perú’s 300MW Hanaqpampa solar project in Moquegua region. In May, Engie secured the…


How Women’s Environmental Action Across the Global South Can Create a Better Planet

Oct 20, 2023 | Andi M. Pratiwi

Climate change has different impacts on men and women, especially in the Global South.

Patriarchal culture is the cause behind this. We often do not involve women in responding to…


Iraq: Iraq to Issue Soon Tenders for 6th Gas Concession Round

Oct 19, 2023 | Zawya

OPEC member Iraq will issue tenders for foreign companies to bid for gas concessions within the country’s sixth round of oil and gas licences which…


Myanmar: Study: Despite Armed Conflicts, Indigenous Lands Have Better Environment Quality

Oct 19, 2023 | Spoorthy Raman, Mongabay

For nearly 2,000 years, the Indigenous Karen people of southeast Myanmar have led a relatively tranquil life in the hilly forests that are part of…


In This Exhibition, Gender Meets Climate Activism. It’s a Lot.

Oct 18, 2023 | Emily LaBarge

“We won’t play nature to your culture,” declares a 1983 work by the American artist Barbara Kruger, known for her biting pairings of text and…


Iraq/Kurdistan: Kurdistan’s Oil Fields Lead Iraq’s Production Rise

Oct 18, 2023 | Oil & Gas Middle East

Kurdistan's oil fields outshine federal counterparts as Iraq's production edges up in September, revealing regional variations and production dynamics.