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USAID’s New Center for Water Security Signals Progress, But More is Needed

Jul 27, 2020 | Stephanie Cappa and Sarah Davidson

As the COVID-19 crisis grew this spring, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) revamped its Water Office, renamed it as the Center for Water…


Senior Advisor, Environment and Conflict

Jul 25, 2020 | United States Institute of Peace

The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) is an independent, non-partisan institution and are actively engaged with peacebuilding efforts around the world. It is an…


Mozambique: Natural Resource Management Specialist

Jul 25, 2020 | World Bank Group

Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank Group…


Yemen: Logistics Manager

Jul 25, 2020 | Action Contre la Faim

Action Contre La Faim has been operating in Yemen since 2012, upscaling its emergency activities in 2016 due to the conflict between Al Houthi and…


Kenya: Climate Change Programme Design for HECA

Jul 25, 2020 | Oxfam

Oxfam is an international confederation of 19 organizations (affiliates) working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in…


Consultant: Environmental Mainstreaming for Non-Environmental Actors

Jul 25, 2020 | IM

IM is a Swedish NGO committed to empowering civil society, catalyzing profound societal change towards equality and democracy, as a feminist and anti-racist change agent.…


Somalia: Climate Change Mitigation and Adaption

Jul 25, 2020 | Adeso

Adeso is an expanding and vibrant African based international development and humanitarian organization. At Adeso, they work with African communities who are yet to realize…


Myanmar: Program Coordinator – Legal

Jul 25, 2020 | EarthRights International

EarthRights International is a nongovernmental, nonprofit organization that combines the power of law and the power of people in defense of human rights and the…


Somalia: Expression of Interest for Individual Consultants

Jul 25, 2020 | Action for Development and Research

Action for Development and Research (ADR) focuses to promote positive changes in divided societies affected by decades of conflict, and the ever more hazardous effects…


Intern (Environment and Public Policy (EPP) Section)

Jul 25, 2020 | Environment and Public Policy

The Environment and Public Policy (EPP) Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR), a professional organization dedicated to enhancing the practice and public understanding…


Kenya: Principal Water Resources Management and Development Officer

Jul 25, 2020 | African Development Bank

Established in 1964, the African Development Bank (AfDB) is the premier multi-lateral development finance institution fostering economic growth and social progress in Africa. The AfDB’s…


Climate Change: Climate Emergency ‘a Danger to Peace’, UN Security Council Hears

Jul 24, 2020 | UN

The climate emergency generated by global warming, is exacerbating existing risks to international peace and security, while also creating new ones, a senior UN official…


Summer Academy 2020: Expansive Possibilities for the Future - Caux Dialogue on Environment and Security 2020

Jul 24, 2020 | Alan Channer and Karina Cheah, Inititives of Change

The effusive feedback from participants in the five-day 2020 Summer Academy on Land, Climate and Security vindicated the difficult decision to take the course online.…


Guyana: Rice, Climate Change and a Post-COVID Opportunity for Women In Guyana

Jul 24, 2020 | Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes

Rice, the most widely consumed staple in the world, has been one of the central protagonists in the global food crisis caused by COVID-19. Three…


DRC/Uganda: How Smuggled DRC Gold Passes through Entebbe

Jul 24, 2020 | Franklin Draku, Monitor

Uganda has continued to offer an exit route for gold smuggled from the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) despite international concerns of fueling conflict…


Diamond Development Initiative Becomes Part of Resolve

Jul 24, 2020 | Rob Bates, JCK

The Diamond Development Initiative (DDI), the Ottawa, Canada–based group that works on issues affecting artisanal diamond miners, will now become part of Resolve, the Washington, D.C.–based nongovernmental…


Iraq: Iraq on the Brink

Jul 24, 2020 | Adnan Bahiya, Ecologist

Covid-19 and the fall in oil prices has pushed Iraq towards calamity, underlining the urgency of ending the country's fossil fuel dependency.


Fund Resilience: Create Systemic Change by Working at the Nexus of Climate and Gender

Jul 23, 2020 | Prachi Seth

Women in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to climate change due to their high dependency on natural resources for their livelihoods coupled with lesser economic,…


Call for Abstracts for Online Workshop: The Climate Crisis: Legal Safeguards for Justice and Security

Jul 23, 2020

Society must recognize that climate change, as well as the current pandemic and ongoing racial injustices, are sustainability and security crises. The three dimensions of…


How COVID-19 Can Bring Gender Justice

Jul 23, 2020 | Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and Helena Dalli

Disasters shape the course of history. In the wake of the Spanish flu of 1918, more women entered the labour market and in roles previously…


Syria: Black Waters: Oil Spills Pollute Northeast Syria Creeks

Jul 22, 2020 | Delil Souleiman, Agence France-Presse

Oil pollution in Syria has been a growing concern since the 2011 onset of a civil war that has taken a toll on oil infrastructure…


Liberia: Liberia Responds to COVID-19 Impact on the Oil Industry

Jul 22, 2020 | William Q. Harmon, Observer

The Government of Liberia, through the Liberia Petroleum Regulatory Authority (LPRA), has made significant adjustments to its bid evaluation criteria for the 2020 Offshore Licensing…


Yemen: Yemen Sees Return to Alarming Levels of Food Insecurity - UNICEF, WFP, FAO & OCHA

Jul 22, 2020 | UNICEF

Economic shocks, conflict, floods, desert locusts and now COVID-19 are creating a perfect storm that could reverse hard-earned food security gains in Yemen, warns the…


Myanmar: Many Myanmar Mining Firms Fail to Name Politically Connected Owners: Global Witness

Jul 22, 2020 | Nan Lwin, Irrawaddy

At least 10 companies in Myanmar have failed to identify “politically exposed persons”—those with links to high-ranking present or former military officials and ethnic armed…


China/Vietnam/South China Sea: Oil and Gas Fueling South China Sea Tensions

Jul 22, 2020 | Helen Clark, Asia Times

Vietnam’s crucial offshore energy industry is being squeezed as US-China tensions rise in the South China Sea. According to reports, China is pressing for the…


Liberia: Oil Spill in Liberian Capital Creates Environmental Hazard - and Opportunity

Jul 21, 2020 | Darlington Porkpa, Radio France Internationale

An oil spill in the Mesurado River in the Liberian capital Monrovia has prompted hundreds of people to rush to collect the fuel, as environmental…


To Solve the Climate Crisis, Women Must Own More of the World's Land

Jul 21, 2020 | Martha Merrow

Land, women, and climate change: the future of all three are intrinsically connected and must be addressed comprehensively to create equitable change and a livable…


Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq's Tussle with Semi-Autonomous Kurdish Region Seen Complicating Energy Policy

Jul 21, 2020 | Dania Saadi, S&P Global Platts

Iraq's federal government has a complicated energy relationship with the Kurdish region that is unlikely to be resolved due to differences within the semi-autonomous entity…


Crisis Reveals the Fault Lines of Gender in Environmentalism—How Do We Value Everyday Environments?

Jul 20, 2020 | Nathalie Blanc, Sandra Laugier, Pascale Molinier, and Anne Querrien

These are times of crisis. One might even think that the COVID-19 crisis looks like a an alternative expression of crises that are already building,…


Myanmar: Difficult to Enforce Law in Kachin’s Jade Mine Town: Officials

Jul 20, 2020 | Kyaw Ko Ko, Myanmar Times

Law enforcement is a major challenge in the Hpakant jade mining town in Kachin State, the site of the deadliest landslide in the country’s recent…