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Alma Mirvić is the Joint UN Regional Programme Coordinator for the Dialogue for the Future at UNDP’s office in Bosnia and Herzegovina. After receiving her…

Biometrics Could Give More Vivid Picture of Woman’s Workload

Sep 8, 2020 | Allison Floyd

Asking a busy woman to report her daily activities can give researchers insight into how she spends her limited time and whether child-care and other…

South Africa: Clash between Farmer and Land Invaders in Karino

Sep 5, 2020 | Buks Viljoen, Lowvelder

In yet another land grab in the Lowveld, Hendrik Brink was one of the farmers who, over the past two months, fell victim to land-grabbers…

Colombia: Criminal Gangs in Colombia Cut down Tress to Grow Coca, 8 Arrested [Video]

Sep 5, 2020 | WION

Criminals in Colombia cut down tress to grow Coca. Large part of Natural parks lost to deforestation. 248 hectares of deforestation land recoverd so far.…

Book Launch: Why Women Leading the Climate Movement are Underappreciated and Sometimes Invisible

Sep 5, 2020 | Ilana Cohen, Inside Climate News

The American scientist Eunice Newton Foote theorized in 1856 that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could produce global warming three years before similar work by the Irish physicist…

Kenya: Program Director

Sep 5, 2020 | Energy Peace Partners

Energy Peace Partners (EPP) is a US-based organization built around the idea that climate solutions can support peace in places affected by violent conflict. They…

Post-Doctoral Position: OCEAN Sustainability Pathways for Achieving Conflict Transformation

Sep 5, 2020 | FAPESP

FAPESP is a public foundation, funded by the taxpayer in the State of São Paulo, with the mission to support research projects in higher education…

DRC: Conservation Pilot, Northeast

Sep 5, 2020 | Wildlife Conservation Society

The Wildlife Conservation Society (“WCS”) is a New York not-for-profit corporation founded by statute in 1895 as the New York Zoological Society. WCS saves wildlife…

Central African Republic: Conservation Pilot Northeast

Sep 5, 2020 | Wildlife Conservation Society

The Wildlife Conservation Society (“WCS”) is a New York not-for-profit corporation founded by statute in 1895 as the New York Zoological Society. WCS saves wildlife…

South Sudan: ERT WASH Manager

Sep 5, 2020 | Medair

Medair is a Swiss international non-governmental organization NGO of humanitarian aid with a stated mission, "to relieve suffering in some of the world’s most remote…

Colombia: WASH/Shelter Project Manager

Sep 5, 2020 | Solidarités International

Solidarités International is operational in Colombia since October 2019. The mission is currently working on reinforcing WASH conditions in the shelters (refugios) along the route…

Myanmar: Deputy Landscape Manager

Sep 5, 2020 | World Wide Fund for Nature

The World Wide Fund for Nature is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness preservation and the reduction…

Myanmar: Consultant for Policy Gap Analysis & Capacity Assessment on ICCA

Sep 5, 2020 | World Wide Fund for Nature

WWF-Myanmar is seeking a suitable and qualified candidate for a Consultant for Policy Gap Analysis & Capacity Assessment on ICCA position with home-based.

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Kenya: Senior Scientist – Gender and Agriculture Researcher

Sep 5, 2020 | International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, known by its Spanish acronym, CIMMYT®, is a not-for-profit agricultural research for development organization with partners in over…

Kenya: Baseline Evaluation for Modogashe Ending Chronic Hunger Integrated Project

Sep 5, 2020 | British Red Cross

The British Red Cross Society is the United Kingdom body of the worldwide neutral and impartial humanitarian network the International Red Cross and Red Crescent…

Brazil: Terms of Reference for Senior Environmental Expert to Develop the Urban NEAT+ in Brazil, Administered Individual Consultancy

Sep 5, 2020 | UN High Commissioner for Refugees

UNHCR is a global organization, dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people. Every…

South Sudan: South Sudan Pledges to Clean up Oil Pollution after Locals Protests

Sep 4, 2020 | David Mayen, East African

The South Sudanese government has pledged to oversee speedy conservation and infrastructure development efforts and take action against oil companies operating in Melut County, Upper…

Here’s Why We Need a Global Agreement on Cross-Border Science to Beat COVID-19

Sep 4, 2020 | Saleem Ali

The coronavirus pandemic should be a rallying call to policy-makers and scientists everywhere, bringing the world together to confront a common threat. In practice, however,…

Loss and Damage in Rwanda: A Young Climate Activist Reports

Sep 3, 2020 | Ineza Umuhoza Grace

On 8 September 2020, IIED and ICCCAD are hosting a webinar on climate-related loss and damage in the least developed countries. Here one of the speakers,…

Myanmar: China Dominates Bidding for Myanmar Solar Power Plants

Sep 3, 2020 | Yuichi Nitta, Nikkei Asian Review

Myanmar is expected to announce the winners of tenders for a raft of solar power plants ahead of general elections in November and following a…

Timor-Leste: The Path from Peace to Prosperity

Sep 3, 2020 | Jason Woodroofe

Standing underneath the 27m tall Cristo Rei statue of Jesus and staring back across at the beautiful city of Dili it is hard to imagine…

Hitting Women Hard, Pandemic Makes Gender Poverty Gap Wider - U.N.

Sep 2, 2020 | Anastasia Moloney, Thomson Reuters Foundation

More women than men will fall into extreme poverty due to the pandemic as they bear the economic brunt of COVID-19 and face bigger job…

Egypt/Ethiopia/Sudan: US Cuts Aid to Ethiopia amid Nile Dam Dispute

Sep 2, 2020 | Associated Press

On the guidance of President Trump, the State Department said Wednesday that the United States was suspending some aid to Ethiopia over the “lack of…

Myanmar: Myanmar's Indigenous People Use Ancestral Customs to Fight for Land

Sep 2, 2020 | Star

From tying umbilical cords to sacred trees to paying homage to spirits before a hunt, indigenous people in south-eastern Myanmar are tapping ancestral customs to…

Afghanistan: Greenhouses — A Stable Source of Income for Farmers during COVID-19

Sep 2, 2020 | UN Office on Drugs and Crime

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, which has negative implications on economic activities across the country, the greenhouses are still operating, producing fresh vegetables and serve as…

Unpacking the Revised and Annotated DRC Mining Code

Sep 1, 2020 | Mining Review Africa

In July 2020, the DRC mining registry published an annotated version of the 2002 Mining Code as amended in 2018 (the Revised Code). The announcement…

1325: Rhetoric or Reality?

Sep 1, 2020 | Ndeye Sow and Gemma Kelly

Working on Women Peace & Security (WPS) issues since the 1990s, International Alert was directly involved in the global advocacy campaign “From the Village to…

Foundations for Gender Inclusive Peacebuilding

Sep 1, 2020 | Abiosseh Davis

Through years of programming experience in post-conflict contexts, Interpeace has learned first-hand that inclusion, particularly of marginalized and historically excluded groups, is fundamental for the…

More Justice, Less Violence Related to Gender

Sep 1, 2020 | Simone Eggler

Although 25 years have passed since the World Conference on Women was held in Beijing, violence against women worldwide is still at alarming levels. Even…

An Experiment in Inclusion? Informal Peacemaking in Manbij, Syria

Sep 1, 2020 | Aviva M. Stein and Adam H. Beek

Examples of informal and localised peacemaking have emerged from within the chaos of the Syrian civil war and violent reign of the Islamic State (IS),…