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South Sudan: Emergency Response Team’s WASH Project Manager

Mar 7, 2020 | Medair

Medair is a Swiss humanitarian organisation inspired by Christian faith to relieve human suffering in some of the world’s most remote and devastated places. Since 1989, they have been…

Myanmar: Project Manager / Chief Technical Advisor, Governance for Resilience and Sustainability Project (GRSP)

Mar 7, 2020 | UNDP

The UNDP Country Office in Myanmar is a key interlocutor and advisor to the government at the national and sub-national on sustainable and inclusive growth,…

Turkey: Senior Upstream Officer – Infrastructure (Central and Eastern Europe)

Mar 7, 2020 | International Finance Commission

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging…

Rwanda: Advisor (m/f/d) Extractive Resource Governance and Responsible Minerals Supply Chains

Mar 7, 2020 | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

As a federal enterprise, GIZ supports the German Government in achieving its objectives in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development.

Job description

The Great Lakes…

Consultant/Researcher: Supporting EITI Actors to Diagnose Extractive Sector Corruption Risks

Mar 7, 2020 | Natural Resource Governance Institute

The Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) is a not-for-profit group that promotes transparency and good governance in the oil, gas and mining sector. NRGI seeks…

DRC: Water Utility Finance and Operations Director - (French Fluency required)

Mar 7, 2020 | Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40…

Iraq: WASH Program Manager

Mar 7, 2020 | Terre des hommes

Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh) is the leading Swiss child relief organization, based in Lausanne (Switzerland). Every year our projects support more than 2 million…

Women Ally with Nature to Adapt to Climate Change

Mar 6, 2020 | Gabriela Flores

Nature-based solutions to the global environment crisis are increasingly in the spotlight. High-profile individuals such as campaigner Greta Thunberg and actor Leonardo DiCaprio, as well as business and governments, have all emphasised…

Making Gender Equality Integral to Global Agricultural Research

Mar 6, 2020

Our food systems face unprecedented challenges, from increasingly unpredictable weather to acute biodiversity loss. To feed a population of over 9.6 billion people in 2050, the…

Ethiopia: Trouble as Trump Dives into the Dispute over Ethiopia's Nile Mega-Dam

Mar 6, 2020 | Benita van Eyssen, Deutsche Welle

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is a massive hydroelectric power plant being constructed on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia. In mid-January, Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan reached…

Climate Change Hits Women Hardest, Report Finds

Mar 6, 2020 | Sarah Mac Donald

Women are disproportionately hurt by climate change and corporate human rights violations throughout the world, according to a new study by Trócaire, the aid and development…

Weathering the Storm or Storming the Norms: Can Climate-Smart Agriculture Produce Gender Equality?

Mar 6, 2020 | Sophia Huyer, Samuel Partey, and Bruce Campbell

As Nitya Rao and colleagues show, a lot is known about the effects of climate change on women. Most research focuses on women’s vulnerability as a result…

Colombia: Where Indigenous Women Take Lead on Land Rights, Communities Thrive

Mar 6, 2020 | Andrew J. Wight

MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA – Across the globe, women are on the front lines of protecting traditional and Indigenous land from threats like mining, ranching, and a…

Bangladesh: The Women Fighting Climate Change in Bangladesh

Mar 6, 2020 | Marigold Warner, British Journal of Photography

In disaster-prone areas like Barishal, a major city that lies on the bank of Kirtankhola river in Bangladesh, life for women is a constant struggle.…

Five Ways Gender Equity Can Help Save the Planet

Mar 6, 2020

Around the world, women are pulling above their weight to sustain communities despite barriers in access to nearly everything: education, information, paid work, credit, lands,…

Gender Inequality Must Be Addressed for Our Work to Make a Lasting Difference

Mar 6, 2020 | Danny Harvey

I started working in international development over 20 years ago. Very enthusiastic, I believed my knowledge and skills in agriculture would bring about real transformation…

Climate Change Worsening Violence Against Women

Mar 6, 2020

Climate change disproportionately affects women. In the United States, women have their pregnancies affected by climate change and according to Climate Reality, there’s evidence of how climate change is…

International Women's Day 2020: Women, War and Water in Yemen

Mar 6, 2020 | Leonie Nimmo

On International Women’s Day 2018 the UN Envoy to Yemen received an open letter calling on him to take a firm stand on women’s demands and to…

Hidden in Plain Sight: Women and Girls in Internal Displacement

Mar 5, 2020 | Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

More than half of the 41 million people worldwide living in internal displacement at the end of 2018 were women and girls. They experience displacement…

Eliminate Legal Discrimination Against Women to Advance Food Security and Nutrition

Mar 5, 2020 | Ilaria Bottigliero and Françoise Trine

In societies where there is a high degree of gender inequality, there is also a significantly higher proportion of undernourishment among women and girls.

In order to effectively…

Why Climate Change Disproportionately Affects Women

Mar 5, 2020 | Joe McCarthy

Climate change is a planetary phenomenon that will impact all countries, but its effects are being shaped by pervasive and entrenched gender inequality.

Heat waves, droughts, rising…

Afghanistan: The Afghan Scorpion Farmer Harvesting Valuable Venom for International Buyers

Mar 5, 2020 | Kern Hendricks, National

Scorpion venom is highly prized among medical researchers. “Not all the venom components of scorpions are dangerous to humans, and there are actually many components…

Iraq: As Oil Prices Fall, How Will Iraq Pay the Bills?

Mar 4, 2020 | Agence France-Presse

As crude prices plunge, Iraq's oil sector is facing a triple threat that has slashed revenues, risks denting production, and may spell trouble for future…

Liberia: Resolution Underway in Boniken-Weleken Land Dispute

Mar 4, 2020 | New Dawn

A team of local authorities headed by County Superintendent, George A. Prowd have instituted measures aimed at restoring peace over a disputed farmland between Boniken…

Revisiting Conflict Minerals Compliance - Developments, Trends and Action Items for the Current Reporting Year

Mar 4, 2020 | Michael R. Littenberg, Anne-Marie L. Beliveau, and Nellie V. Binder

The EU Conflict Minerals Regulation takes effect on January 1, 2021. The EU Regulation generally will require importers of tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold (“3TG”…

In Eastern Myanmar, the Karen Watch over a Revolutionary Forest

Mar 4, 2020 | Benjamin D. Hodgdon

For more than 70 years, since shortly after the country formerly known as Burma gained independence, a low-boil insurgency has fought for Karen self-determination, promised…

Environmental Mainstreaming at the 23rd National Mine Action Directors and UN Advisers Meetings

Mar 3, 2020 | Linsey Cottrell and Kendra Dupuy

It was very encouraging to have the environment highlighted in several of the presentations at this year’s National Mine Directors Meeting in Geneva. A plenary…

Are We Radically Underestimating the Effects of Climate on Armed Conflict?

Mar 3, 2020 | Cullen Hendrix

Climate change is widely recognized as a “threat multiplier.” From the United Nations to the G7 to the US Department of Defense, there is emerging consensus that climate change poses…

Conflict Minerals: Civil Society Calls for Transparency about Companies Subjected to the EU Regulation on 3TG Conflict Minerals

Mar 3, 2020 | Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations

EU member states seem to be adopting a loose interpretation of the text of the Regulation on the responsible sourcing of minerals from conflict-affected and…

Conflict Minerals: UN General Assembly Highlights Importance of Regime to Curb Conflict Diamonds

Mar 3, 2020 | Xinhua

The UN General Assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution that acknowledges the successful role that the Kimberley Process, a mechanism aimed to prevent "conflict diamonds"…