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Colombia: Deputy Chief of Party

Aug 30, 2016 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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…