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Colombia: Deputy Chief of Party
Aug 30, 2016
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Chemonics
Chemonics seeks a deputy chief of party for the Colombia Carbono Activity. This USAID-funded activity will support Colombia in the implementation of its agriculture, forestry,…
Colombia: Fellow, Water & Cities
Aug 30, 2016
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Conservation International
Conservation International is working to conserve ecosystems that provide water and prevent flooding in three of the five largest megacities in Latin Americas – Bogotá,…
Sierra Leone: National Consultant to Contribute to The Development of a Five Year Strategic Implementation Plan (MMMR)
Aug 30, 2016
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UNDP
The services of a national consultant is required to work alongside an international consultant to prepare a 5 Year Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) to guide…
Nepal: Faculty Members Vacancy
Aug 30, 2016
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Institute of Crisis Management Studies
The Institute of Crisis Management Studies is a newly established centre for academia focusing on management of crises, those occurring both as a result of human…
Communications Manager
Aug 30, 2016
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Global Witness
Global Witness invites candidates to help communicate and instigate with Global Witness, a dynamic international organization that investigates and campaigns to stop human rights and…
Lebanon: Extension/Provision of Individual Services of an International Climate Change Adaptation Consultant
Aug 30, 2016
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UNDP
UNDP Lebanon is recruiting an international consultant to prepare a concept note that identifies the scope for GCF climate change adaptation (CCA) projects in Lebanon,…
South Sudan: Project Coordinator, Food Security
Aug 30, 2016
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Norwegian Refugee Council
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life…
DRC: WASH Project Manager
Aug 30, 2016
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Medair
Medair is a humanitarian organisation inspired and motivated by Christian faith to relieve human suffering in some of the world’s most remote and devastated places.…
Sierra Leone: Urban WASH Advisor
Aug 30, 2016
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GOAL
GOAL has grown its existing WASH programme portfolio considerably since the onset of the EVD outbreak, to encompass WASH in health facilities as well as…
Colombia: Chief of Party
Aug 30, 2016
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Chemonics
Chemonics seeks a chief of party for the anticipated Colombia Carbono Activity. This USAID-funded activity will support Colombia in the implementation of its agriculture, forestry, and…
Iraq: Iraq Blacklists Three Oil Tankers for Shipping Kurdish Crude
Aug 30, 2016
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Zainab Calcuttawala, OilPrice.com
Three tankers that shipped crude from Kurdistan have been blacklisted by the Iraqi State Organization for the Marketing of Oil (SOMO) in a move designed…
After Conflict, Peacebuilding and Recovery Efforts Too Often Miss the Environment
Aug 29, 2016
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Tim Kovach and Ken Conca
In June 2010, The New York Times published a front page story trumpeting a Pentagon announcement of roughly $1 trillion worth of mineral resources in Afghanistan. Officials said…
Displacement and Environment in Africa: What is the Relationship?
Aug 29, 2016
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UNEP
Droughts combined with population growth, a lack of sustainable land and water management, natural disasters, political conflicts and tensions and other factors have resulted in…
Liberia Must Learn to Honor the Rights of Rural Residents to Manage Their Own Land
Aug 29, 2016
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Alioune Tine
Liberia, the first African country to declare itself a republic and one of three African nations to take part in the establishment and adoption of…
Myanmar: Illegal Logging Mars Magwe’s Deep Forests
Aug 29, 2016
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Nay Aung, Myanmar Times
Myanmar is the third-worst country in the world for deforestation, according to a 2015 report issued by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, which said that…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq Plans to Sell Oil through Iran if Talks with Kurds Fail
Aug 29, 2016
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Stephen Kalin, Reuters
Iraq's government would consider selling crude through Iran should talks with the autonomous Kurdish region on an oil revenue-sharing agreement fail, a senior oil ministry…
Timor-Leste: Australia Says Tribunal Has No Jurisdiction in Maritime Border Row with East Timor
Aug 29, 2016
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Agence France-Presse
East Timor on Monday urged an international tribunal to help resolve a dispute with Australia over a maritime border which cuts through lucrative oil and…
Iraq: Iraq Says Fires Put out at Four Oil Wells in Town Captured from IS
Aug 29, 2016
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Reuters
Iraq has put out fires at four oil wells in the oil-producing region of Qayyara which Iraqi forces recaptured from Islamic State last week, the…
Israel/Palestine: Palestinian Water Wars Boiling over in Sa'ir
Aug 28, 2016
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Adam Rasgan, Jerusalem Post
The Palestinian Water Authority and the Sa’ir Municipality are at odds over the disappearance of large amounts of water from Sa’ir, a town of 25,000…
South Sudan: Are South Sudan’s Wetlands in Danger of Drying up?
Aug 26, 2016
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UNEP
The Sudd ecosystem and its unique cultures are threatened by a variety of development pressures including a plan to almost completely drain the wetland to…
Liberia: Sime Darby Plantation to Inaugurate its First US$18M Oil Palm Mill in Western Liberia
Aug 26, 2016
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Global News Network
The Sime Darby Plantation, a Malaysian Conglomerate Plantation Company operating in western Liberia has disclosed that it will inaugurate one of the modern palm oil…
Iraq: Iraq's Qayyara Oil Wells Still Burning Weeks after Start of Battle
Aug 26, 2016
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Rudaw
After an operation that lasted more than two months Iraqi troops managed to reach the town of Qayyara on Thursday and expel its Islamic State…
Little Talked About, This Issue Can Choke Colombia’s Peace Deal Down The Line
Aug 25, 2016
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José E. Mosquera
Decades of civil conflict and the formation of the communist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) could be attributed in part to the struggle for land in…
How Lapis Lazuli Turned One Afghan Mining District to the Taliban
Aug 25, 2016
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Adrienne Bober
In the mountains of northern Afghanistan, between Pakistan and China, a region that has historically rejected the Taliban has become the group’s second-largest source of revenue.…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq Seeks Formal Deal With Kurds to Protect New Oil Exports
Aug 25, 2016
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Sam Wilin and Khalid Al Ansary, Bloomberg
Iraq’s resumption last week of oil shipments through a Kurdish-controlled pipeline bumped up its export capacity by five percent almost overnight. Now OPEC’s second-biggest producer…
Myanmar: Limited Capacity Hinders Myanmar’s Water Management
Aug 24, 2016
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Khine Kyaw, Myanmar Eleven
River basin organisations should be established to support the activities of the National Water Resource Committee (NWRC), to enhance the country’s water management which has…
Myanmar: Shan Groups Warn Salween Dam Could Fuel Conflict
Aug 24, 2016
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Libby Hogan, Democratic Voice of Burma
Shan community groups are calling for the suspension of a Chinese-backed dam on the Salween River that they say risks exacerbating conflict and environmental problems…
Calming the Waters: Why We Need to Better Integrate Climate and Water Policy
Aug 23, 2016
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Sabine Blumstein
The Nile River is shared by 11 countries, for which it is vital for food and energy production, freshwater, and as a means of transportation.…
Myanmar: Shan Farmers Protest Nao Pha Dam Project
Aug 23, 2016
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Thu Thu Aung, Myanmar Times
With the future of the controversial Myitsone dam project apparently still in doubt following Foreign Minister Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s visit to China, local…
DRC: Katanga Youth Project Hopes to Cut Minerals Dependence
Aug 23, 2016
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Victor Muisyo, Africa News
The Democratic Republic of Congo is Africa’s largest copper producer, and heavily relies on the mining sector, which, alongside its small oil industries accounts for…