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Myanmar: Green Business: Environmental Goods and Services Promotion
May 16, 2020
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UNDP
UNDP Myanmar has commenced implementation of its Country Programme for 2018-2022. Integrated programming has guided the design of the new programme in order to better…
Syria: Country Director
May 16, 2020
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Cooperazione Internazionale
Cooperazione Internazionale (COOPI) is an Italian humanitarian non-governmental organization founded in Milan in 1965. For more than 50 years of long-term support and constant presence…
Afghanistan: Technical Advisor for Plastic Waste Recycling
May 16, 2020
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People In Need
People in Need (PIN) is a Czech NGO that provides relief and development assistant in 22 countries around the world. In Afghanistan, PIN has been…
DRC: Expert in Agroecology for Agricultural Development (French fluency required)
May 16, 2020
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Enabel
Enabel is the Belgian Development Agency. It executes and coordinates Belgian international development policy, and works mainly on behalf of the Belgian State. The Agency…
Somalia: Technical Adviser for Somali Water and Land Information Management
May 16, 2020
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
The main aim of FAO Somalia is to assist government towards strengthened institutional capacity and decision support for Somalia's agriculture, livestock and fisheries sectors and…
Myanmar: Project Manager / Chief Technical Advisor, Governance for Resilience and Sustainability Project (GRSP)
May 16, 2020
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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,…
Afghanistan: Environmental Specialist (Local Recruitment)
May 16, 2020
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World Bank
The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated…
PhD Multi-level Assessment of Water Stress and Institutional Dynamics in the Water-Climate-Conflict Nexus in Myanmar
May 16, 2020
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is a university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 1880, and ranked among the world's top 150 universities by four major ranking…
Afghanistan: 9 Militants Killed, 2 Soldiers Wounded in Water Dam Attack in Afghanistan
May 16, 2020
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Xinhua
At least nine militants were killed, two Afghan security force members and five militants wounded during a predawn clash in eastern Paktia province on Saturday,…
Israel/Palestine: Palestinians Tear Gassed in Protests against Israeli Settlements
May 16, 2020
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Al Jazeera
Israeli forces have fired tear gas at Palestinians protesting against the expansion of Israeli settlements, considered illegal under international law, in northern occupied West Bank, injuring…
The Pandemic's Gender Imperative
May 15, 2020
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Ann Linde and Arancha Gonzalez
Regardless of where one looks, it is women who bear most of the responsibility for holding societies together, be it at home, in health care,…
Israel/Jordan: King Warns Israel of 'Massive Conflict' over Annexation
May 15, 2020
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Ammonews
German magazine Der Spiegel published on Friday an interview with His Majesty King Abdullah that covered the latest developments in the Middle East and the…
Syria: Time to Harvest the Honey: Syrian Returnees Find New Livelihoods in Beekeeping
May 15, 2020
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
The improvement of the security situation in Daraa Governorate in southwest Syria has allowed thousands of displaced families to return to their homes. With oversight from FAO’s…
Kenya: Kenya's Pastoralists Face Hunger and Conflict as Locust Plague Continues
May 15, 2020
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Georgina Smith and Reuben Kayama, Guardian
Kenya is experiencing its worst locust invasion for 70 years. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization, which sounded the alarm in January on the unprecedented…
Afghanistan: Afghanistan to Launch Its First Gemstone Certification Lab
May 14, 2020
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Wadsam
Silk Road Heart will be Afghanistan’s first gemstone certification lab and lapidary to be launched in June 2020 with support from USAID INVEST. According to…
Myanmar: Naga Tribes of Myanmar Face Loss of Land and Forest under New Law
May 14, 2020
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Robert Bociaga, Mongabay
The Naga tribes inhabit the hills in the northwestern corner of Myanmar and northeast India. However, their rights and culture have been recently undermined by…
AU Leadership Absent From Egypt and Ethiopia Dam Dispute
May 14, 2020
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Alvin Young
After years of negotiations, Egypt has written to the UN Security Council about what it considers to be Ethiopia's failure to reach an agreement over the filling…
Libya's Forgotten Half: Between Conflict and Pandemic, Women Pay the Higher Price
May 14, 2020
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Asma Khalifa
Immediately after the state of emergency was declared in Libya, the government in Tripoli began dispensing funds intended to combat the pandemic. Half of it…
Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Mining Revenue Sinks as Pandemic Hits Production and Prices
May 14, 2020
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Cooper Inveen, Reuters
Sierra Leone is weathering a dramatic crunch in mining revenue as COVID-19 restrictions hurt companies’ ability to export gold and diamonds and access essential supplies.…
Our Recovery from the Coronavirus Crisis Must Have Gender Empowerment at its Heart
May 14, 2020
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Cecilia Ugaz Estrada, Müge Dolun, Carmen Schuber, and Nicolas Schmidt
What most crises have in common is that they hit the most vulnerable and marginalized populations—among which women are disproportionally represented—the hardest. The impact of…
Empowering Women and Youth for Transformative Climate and Environment Justice
May 14, 2020
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Tracy Kajumba
At the beginning of March, Tracy Kajumba was a panellist at the OECD Global Forum on Environment. Here she reflects further on how women and…
Myanmar: Myanmar Arrests More Illegal Timber Traders During COVID-19
May 13, 2020
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Htoo Thant, Myanmar Times
The authorities have seized more illegally logged timber and arrested more timber traders since the COVID-19 outbreak in Myanmar in late March. During the stay-home…
Papua New Guinea: Women Play Key Role in Crafting Peaceful, Sustainable Future for Papua New Guinea
May 12, 2020
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United Nations
Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s briefing, as prepared for delivery, to the Peacebuilding Commission on the joint mission to Papua New Guinea, in…
Women: The Climate Solution We Need to Talk About
May 12, 2020
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Joky François
Women make up nearly half of the agricultural labor force in developing nations—yet in many countries they can’t even own the land on which they toil;…
Myanmar: Adapting Myanmar Resilience Projects in Response to COVID-19
May 12, 2020
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Cordaid
Cordaid, in partnership with Caritas Myanmar (KMSS), has been working on Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction. In 13 villages, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) committees have…
Securing Pathways to Environmental Justice for Indigenous Women
May 11, 2020
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Laura Cahier
Across the Americas, Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), such as the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) or the World Bank (WB), finance public and private projects to…
Canada: Violence Against Indigenous Women During COVID-19 Sparks Calls for MMIWG Plan
May 10, 2020
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Teresa Wright, CBC
With reports of a sharp rise in violence against Indigenous women as COVID-19 restrictions keep families stuck in their homes, concerns are being raised about…
Water Fetching Responsibilities Reveal Unequal Gender Dynamics: Elevates Need for Expansion of On-Site WASH Facilities
May 10, 2020
Women in low-income households have limited access to financial services and educational opportunities, which in turn restricts their ability to tap into the labor market…
What the COVID-19 Pandemic Tells Us About Gender Equality
May 9, 2020
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Ann Linde and Arancha González Laya
Regardless of where one looks, it is women who bear most of the responsibility for holding societies together, be it at home, in health care,…
Former SIPRI Researcher Arthur H. Westing—In Memoriam
May 8, 2020
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
SIPRI mourns the passing of former SIPRI expert Arthur H. Westing (United States), who died on 30 April 2020 at the age of 91.