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USAID's Best Practices for Advancing Gender-Responsive Climate Work

Nov 14, 2022 | M. Mena

Gender inequality exacerbates the disproportionate impact of climate change on women and girls, and it is a barrier to achieving climate change goals. However, we…


How Climate Discussions Connect to Security

Nov 14, 2022 | Homeland Security Today

Negotiations at COP27 will occur against a highly charged geopolitical landscape, given the Russian invasion of Ukraine and heightened competition between the United States and…


Ukraine: Kherson Mayor Warns of ‘Critical’ Water Shortages - as It Happened

Nov 13, 2022 | Joe Middleton, Emine Sinmaz, and Adam Fulton, Guardian

Roman Holovnia said the humanitarian situation in the liberated city was ‘severe’ with a lack of medicine and bread


DRC: Interim Director of Finance

Nov 13, 2022 | Wildlife Conservation Society

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a US non-profit organization founded in 1895. Its mission is to preserve wildlife and wilderness by understanding critical problems,…


DRC: Social Safeguards Manager

Nov 13, 2022 | Wildlife Conservation Society

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a US non-profit organization founded in 1895. Its mission is to preserve wildlife and wilderness by understanding critical problems,…


DRC: Director, Okapi Wildlife Reserve

Nov 13, 2022 | Wildlife Conservation Society

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has been active in the OWR for more than 30 years, supporting its creation, and subsequently working closely with ICCN…


DRC: Conservation Pilot, Okapi Wildlife Reserve

Nov 13, 2022 | Wildlife Conservation Society

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a US non-profit organization founded in 1895. Its mission is to preserve wildlife and wilderness by understanding critical problems,…


DRC: Head of Biomonitoring and Research Kahuzi-Biega National Park

Nov 13, 2022 | Wildlife Conservation Society

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is seeking a dynamic, hard-working, and experienced Head of Biomonitoring and Research to oversee and provide leadership of KBNP’s long-term…


USA: Program Officer, Climate, Environment, and Conflict

Nov 13, 2022 | United States Institute of Peace

Peace is USIP's commitment. The United States Institute of Peace represents the American people’s shared values and commitment to peace worldwide. USIP knows that Peace…


Lebanon: Programme Management Coordinator (Digital Transformation, Disaster & Conflict)

Nov 13, 2022 | United Nations Environment Programme

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental…


South Sudan: Landscape Manager, Western Equatoria

Nov 13, 2022 | Fauna & Flora International

Fauna & Flora International is an international conservation charity and non-governmental organization dedicated to protecting the planet's threatened wildlife and habitats. Founded in 1903, it…


Ukraine: Social Cohesion Associate

Nov 13, 2022 | United Nations Development Program

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) works in about 170 countries and territories, helping to eradicate poverty, reduce inequalities and exclusion, and build resilience so…


Guinea-Bissau: International Consultancy, Baseline Study for the Project “Creating Safe and Empowering Public Spaces with Women to Mitigate Climate-Security Risks and Sustain Peace”

Nov 13, 2022 | United Nations Development Program

The United Nations Development Programme is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development. 48 years…


Myanmar: Head of Freshwater Programme

Nov 13, 2022 | World Wide Fund for Nature

WWF, an independent conservation organization, works to sustain the natural world for the benefit of people and wildlife. Working with others, WWF urgently seeks to…


Myanmar: Consultancy, Charcoal’s Value Chain Market Assessment

Nov 13, 2022 | World Wide Fund for Nature

WWF, an independent conservation organization, works to sustain the natural world for the benefit of people and wildlife. Working with others, WWF urgently seeks to…


Kenya, South Africa, Egypt, or Senegal: Gender and Migration Climate Security Scientist

Nov 13, 2022 | The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) delivers research-based solutions that harness agricultural biodiversity and sustainably transform food systems…


CAR: Conservation Manager

Nov 13, 2022 | World Wide Fund for Nature

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


Niger: Energy and Sanitation Assistant

Nov 13, 2022 | United Nations Development Program

The UNDP is the United Nations agency dedicated to development issues. In Niger, UNDP operates through two portfolios, namely Governance, Peace and Security and Resilience.…


Colombia: Cecilia López Announced That the Goal of the Massive Titling of 681,372 Hectares Was Met

Nov 12, 2022 | The Times Hub

This Friday from Valledupar the Minister of Agriculture, Cecilia López Montaño, announced that the goal of the massive titling of 681,372 hectares for peasants, indigenous…


Myanmar: Junta Threatens Farmers in Ayeyarwady with Land Seizure Unless They Grow Sunflower

Nov 12, 2022 | Mizzima

The Myanmar government officials under the Military Council reportedly threatened farmers with the seizing of their farmland unless they grow sunflowers. The township administrators appointed…


Ukraine: Ukraine War's Environmental Toll to Take Years to Clean up

Nov 11, 2022 | Sam Mednick, Associated Press

Environmental damage caused by Ukraine’s war is mounting, and experts warn of long-term health consequences for the population.


Colombia: Colombia’s Signing of Escazu Accord Brings Hope to Land Defenders

Nov 11, 2022 | Joshua Collins and Daniela Diaz Rangel, Al Jazeera

The Escazu Agreement, adopted in Costa Rica in March 2018, is a legally binding international treaty that aims to promote transparency in environmental decision-making. The…


At COP27, 41 Grassroots Women’s Organizations Launch New Global South Alliance for Indigenous and Local Women and Girls

Nov 11, 2022 | Rights and Resources

SHARM-EL-SHEIKH (November 11, 2022) — On November 11 at CoP27, 41 grassroots women’s organizations from Asia, Africa, and Latin America launched a new advocacy network…


Syria: Poor Access to Safe Water Fuels Cholera Outbreak in Syria

Nov 10, 2022 | Reuters

Poor access to safe water has exacerbated a cholera outbreak rampaging across Syria’s war-battered provinces, where local authorities are struggling to contain the spread with…


NATO Environmental Protection Working Group Celebrates Its 25th Meeting

Nov 10, 2022 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization

From 9 to 11 November 2022, the NATO Environmental Protection Working Group held its plenary meeting at the NATO Headquarters in Brussels. The plenary centred…


Liberia: Mapping Nature for People and Planet in Liberia - A Project to Create 'Maps of Hope'

Nov 10, 2022 | New Dawn

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Liberia's Environment Protection Agency (EPA) bring together decision makers to map the country's essential regions for biodiversity, climate…


Blood Diamonds: How Do They Fuel Violence, and What Africa Is Doing to Curb This

Nov 10, 2022 | Pallak Kashyap, TFI Global

Blood diamonds are diamonds that are mined in territories which are under the control of terrorists and insurgent groups, which are seeking to overthrow the…


Ukraine: Is Food Security Possible without Peace?

Nov 10, 2022 | Sarah McLaughlin, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center

The intersection between agriculture and peace has been brought to the forefront of the news agenda this year due to the Ukraine crisis, which has…


The Law of Treaties in Wartime: The Case of the Black Sea Grain Initiative

Nov 10, 2022 | Gregor Novak and Helmut Aust

The Black Sea Grain Initiative (BSGI) was in the spotlight recently following a nail-biting attempt by Russia to suspend its participation in one of UN Secretary-General Guterres’…


COP27: An Explainer for Peacebuilders

Nov 10, 2022 | Harriet Mackaill-Hill

COP is short for ‘Conference of the Parties’ and there are all kinds of COPs for various international agreements. But the term COP has come…