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Bangladesh: WASH Coordinator

Dec 12, 2019 | Solidarités International

Solidarités International (SI) is a humanitarian organization that provides aid and assistance to victims of war or natural disaster. Since 1980, the association has concentrated its…

Sudan: Head of Mission

Dec 12, 2019 | Cooperazione Internazionale

Cooperazione Internazionale (COOPI) is an Italian humanitarian non-governmental organization founded in Milan in 1965. COOPI aims to help the world’s poorest to improve their access…

Expert Support to the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) Secretariat on Policies and Measures in the Land Use Sector

Dec 12, 2019 | UNDP

The United Nations Development Programme is the United Nations' global development network. It advocates for change and connects countries to knowledge, experience and resources to…

International Consultant to Conduct a Scoping Exercise for Designing a New Climate Change Adaptation Project

Dec 12, 2019 | UNDP

The United Nations Development Programme is the United Nations' global development network. It advocates for change and connects countries to knowledge, experience and resources to…

Jordan: Environmental Education Specialist for Decentralized power supply with solar power for operating a sewage treatment plant in a rural community in Jordan project

Dec 12, 2019 | EcoPeace Middle East

EcoPeace Middle East is a unique trilateral environmental organization. Our primary objective is the promotion of cooperative efforts to protect our shared environmental heritage. In…

Communications Consultancy

Dec 12, 2019 | Global Witness

Global Witness investigates and campaigns to stop human rights and environmental abuses caused by corruption and the exploitation of natural resources.

About the consultancy

We are looking…

Nigeria: WASH Coordinator

Dec 12, 2019 | Solidarités International

Solidarités International (SI) is a humanitarian organization that provides aid and assistance to victims of war or natural disaster. Since 1980, the association has concentrated…

Serbia: Nature-based Solutions Senior Project Officer

Dec 12, 2019 | International Union for Conservation of Nature

IUCN is a membership Union uniquely composed of both government and civil society organisations. It provides public, private and non-governmental organisations with the knowledge and…

Myanmar: Project Manager / Chief Technical Advisor, Governance for Resilience and Sustainability Project (GRSP)

Dec 12, 2019 | UNDP

The United Nations Development Programme is the United Nations' global development network. It advocates for change and connects countries to knowledge, experience and resources to…

What Is the Fate of Baghdad-Erbil's Oil-for-Budget Agreement amid Ongoing Protests?

Dec 12, 2019 | Dana Taib Menmy

The Kurdistan Region of Iraq has vast proven oil and gas resources; however, mismanagement, corruption and ruling parties’ monopoly on power have brought the region to the brink of financial…

Sierra Leone Needs Stability, It's Blessed with Resources

Dec 12, 2019 | Neil De Beer

Sierra Leone, like many of its African compatriots, is richly blessed with many natural resources like diamonds, iron, and gold. On February 14, 1972, the…

Climate Security Is National Security

Dec 12, 2019 | Joanna Rozpedowski

Between 2008-2012 over 144 million people were displaced by a sudden onset of disasters in more than 122 countries, a number far higher than the…

Nepal: Rickshaw Drivers Break Stereotypes in Nepal

Dec 12, 2019 | UN Women

Hira Kumari Sewa is among the few female rickshaw drivers in Nepal. Service is literally in her name.

Liberia: A Forest of Obstacles for Liberia’s Palm Oil Industry

Dec 12, 2019 | Lucinda Rouse, Business Day

Palm oil is the most widely used vegetable oil in the world, contained in products that range from bread to shampoo and biofuels, and demand…

Conflict Minerals: Switzerland Probes Illegal Trading of Coltan by Swiss Trader during DRC Civil War

Dec 12, 2019 | William Clowes, Business Day

Swiss prosecutors are investigating a trader of one of the world’s most sought-after-minerals over allegations he illegally dealt in metals during Democratic Republic of Congo’s…

Water May Help Exacerbate Violent Conflict, but This Does Not Tell the Whole Story

Dec 11, 2019 | Phoebe Sleet

A new tool, launched by the Water, Peace and Security (WPS) Partnership, has identified a number of locations where there is a high risk of water-related…

When Rain Turns to Dust: Climate Change, Conflict and Humanitarian Action

Dec 10, 2019 | ICRC Humanitarian Law and Policy Blog

Earlier this week the 25th UN Climate Conference, known as COP25, opened in Madrid, Spain with an urgent message: the global climate crisis could soon reach the…

Taliban Negotiations Resume, Feeding Hope of a Peaceful, More Prosperous Afghanistan

Dec 10, 2019 | Elizabeth B. Hessami

Peace talks have resumed between the United States and the Taliban of Afghanistan, three months after negotiations ended abruptly following a deadly Taliban attack in Kabul. 

The Taliban – an armed insurgency promoting…

Brazil to Cambodia, Conflicts Flaring over Land, Water

Dec 10, 2019 | Rina Chandran, Thomson Reuters Foundation

Conflicts over land and water flared across the world this year amid greater competition for resources and increasing hostility towards farmers and indigenous people, according…

Afghanistan/Colombia: Colombia to Help Develop Afghanistan Mining Sector

Dec 10, 2019 | Javed Hamim Kakar, Pajhwok Afghan News

Colombia will facilitate and help the Afghanistan Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (MoMP) develop the mining sector, an official said on Tuesday. MoMP spokesman AbdulQader…

Colombia: Colombia’s Indigenous Guard, Defenders of Land, the Environment and Their Own Lives [Photos]

Dec 10, 2019 | Steven Grattan, PRI

The Indigenous Guard is a community protection network made up of women, men and children who defend their territories without weapons. It originated in Colombia’s violent…

Colombia: Colombia Launches Plan to Guarantee Sustainable Coffee Production

Dec 10, 2019 | Reuters

Colombia, the world's top producer of washed arabica, has laid out what it called a road map to guarantee sustainable production of coffee for the next decade,…

Gender and Youth Specialist

Dec 9, 2019 | ACDI/VOCA

OverviewAs part of the Gender and Social Inclusion (GSI) Team in the Technical Learning and Application Division, the Gender and Youth Specialist will provide technical…

Three Trends to Track in Population-Environment-Security

Dec 9, 2019 | Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba

Exactly 25 years ago the international community met in Cairo for the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development. In the aftermath of the Cold War,…

Senior Gender and Agriculture Specialist

Dec 9, 2019 | ACDI/VOCA

As part of the Gender and Social Inclusion (GSI) Team in the Technical Learning and Application Division, the Senior Gender and Agriculture Systems Specialist will…

Liberia: Oil Blocks for Sale

Dec 9, 2019 | E. J. Nathaniel Daygbor, New Dawn

The Government of Liberia through the Liberia Petroleum Regulatory Authority (LPRA) announces sale of several blocks here, beginning next licensing round.A statement from the Liberia…

Senior Gender and Agriculture Specialist

Dec 9, 2019 | ACDI/VOCA

Overview

As part of the Gender and Social Inclusion (GSI) Team in the Technical Learning and Application Division, the Senior Gender and Agriculture Systems Specialist will…

Gender and Youth Specialist

Dec 9, 2019 | ACDI/VOCA

OverviewAs part of the Gender and Social Inclusion (GSI) Team in the Technical Learning and Application Division, the Gender and Youth Specialist will provide technical…

Afghanistan: 'Combatting Hidden Enemies': Meet the Women on the Front Line of De-mining Afghanistan

Dec 8, 2019 | Roshan De Stone and David L. Suber, Independent

Nearly 100 Afghans are killed every month by unexploded mines, and yet when Gulandam first signed up to help with de-mining efforts, men would hurl insults…

Myanmar: Govt Reviews Forest Management as Dutch Police Seize Myanmar Teak

Dec 8, 2019 | Khin Su Wai, Myanmar Times

The government is set to review the country’s forest management strategy as it faces an uphill struggle against deforestation and illegal logging, a senior forestry…