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Senior Programme Manager, Transboundary Water Management

Oct 12, 2018 | Stockholm International Water Institute

The Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) is a policy institute that generates knowledge and informs decision-making towards a water wise world. SIWI conducts research, builds…


Programme Manager, Transboundary Water Management

Oct 12, 2018 | Stockholm International Water Institute

The Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) is a policy institute that generates knowledge and informs decision-making towards a water wise world. SIWI conducts research, builds…


India: Bengaluru Is a Window into the Water Wars of the Future

Oct 11, 2018 | Georgina Drew, Amalendu Jyotishi, and Deepika M. G., Quartz

Bengaluru is home to some ten million people. It might also be the next city to experience “day zero”: when it runs out of ground…


Afghanistan/Pakistan: Pak-Afghan Cooperation for Sustainable Usage of River Kabul Stressed

Oct 11, 2018 | The News

Afghan Consul General Professor Mohammad Moeen Marastial has urged the governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan to sit and discuss water issues between the two countries…


Afghanistan: Afghan Farmers Fleeing Drought Face More Hardship in Camps

Oct 11, 2018 | Agence France-Presse

For only the second time in his life, Afghan farmer Murad Khan Ishaqzai has been forced to leave the home where he was born 80…


Cambodia: Chief of Party- NOURISH Project

Oct 10, 2018 | Save the Children

The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, is an international non-governmental organisation that promotes children's rights, provides relief and helps support…


DRC: Emergency Ebola WASH Program Manager

Oct 10, 2018 | Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40…


DRC: Community Forests Project Officer

Oct 10, 2018 | Rainforest Foundation UK

The Rainforest Foundation Fund is a charitable foundation dedicated to the preservation of the rainforest by defending the rights of the indigenous peoples living there.

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South Sudan: Youth Engagement in Relation to WASH

Oct 10, 2018 | Concern Worldwide

Concern Worldwide is Ireland's largest aid and humanitarian agency. About 1.86 million people have been internally displaced across South Sudan, including over 215,000 seeking shelter…


Consultant: Landscape and Opportunities Analysis for Water Resource Management

Oct 10, 2018 | Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In conflict, in disaster, in hardship, in more…


Somalia: Baseline Evaluation for OFDA Funded Integrated Lifesaving Assistance for Drought and Conflict Affected Populations in Somalia

Oct 10, 2018 | Save the Children

Introduction

Save the Children (SC) has worked in Somalia/Somaliland since 1951 and has provided emergency assistance since 1970 whenever there has been need. In 2016, SCI…


Yemen: Analysis of Women Economic Empowerment and Gender Mainstreaming Interventions

Oct 10, 2018 | CTG

CTG Overview     

CTG support and manage humanitarian projects in fragile and conflict-affected countries around the world. With past performance in 15 countries – from the Middle…


Iraq: Consultant: Market Mapping Analysis for Water and Hygiene Vouchers Intervention

Oct 10, 2018 | Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps is a global humanitarian organization empowering people to recover from crisis, build better lives and transform their communities for good. This program adheres…


Iraq: Consultancy Evaluation WASH Iraq

Oct 10, 2018 | Terre des Hommes Foundation Child Relief

Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh) is the leading Swiss child relief agency. The Foundation has been helping children in need for over 50 years, defending…


Colombia: Deforestation and Usurping Indigenous Land Go Together

Oct 10, 2018 | Rodrigo Botero

Neither laws nor state actions have managed to curb the progressive deforestation of Colombia's Amazonian territories, which include the homes of indigenous tribes that have…


Afghanistan: 'Creating Peace through Business’: Rumi Spice Takes Single-Origin Saffron to Wider US Audience

Oct 10, 2018 | Mary Ellen Shoup, FoodNavigator-USA

Known as a pricey and somewhat elusive spice, the delicate ruby red saffron threads can be intimidating to many consumers. Socially conscious Rumi Spice is…


Liberia: Community Forestry Hijacked by Logging Companies, Risk of Future Conflict Heightens

Oct 10, 2018 | FrontPage Africa

A new investigation from Global Witness has revealed how progressive community forestry in Liberia is being undermined by the logging industry, with companies reportedly using…


Iraq: New Iraq Oil Contracts to Call for 85 Percent Local Content

Oct 10, 2018 | MEED

There has been growing popular unrest over the state of the Iraqi economy as the general population sees little of its oil wealth.


Russia: Land Grab? Why the Ingush Are Furious with Chechnya

Oct 10, 2018 | Tony Wesolowsky, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Magas, the capital of the southern Russian region of Ingushetia, has been at the center of fresh controversy in the volatile North Caucasus region of…


Syria: Erratic Weather, Conflict Weigh on Syria’s Agriculture Output

Oct 10, 2018 | Eric Schroeder, World-Grain.com

An extended period of dry weather early in the crop season followed by heavy out-of-season rains have led to poor grain growing conditions in Syria,…


Nigeria: Farmers/Herders Conflict: Group to Set up Integrated Farming Communities in Three States

Oct 10, 2018 | Eagle Online

A Non-Governmental Organization, Synergos Nigeria, has begun a pilot program to integrate farming and pastoralist communities in parts of Kaduna, Benue and Kogi States.
Victoria…


Afghanistan: Industrialists Say Struggling with Power, Land Shortages

Oct 10, 2018 | Pajhwok Afghan News

The Afghanistan Industrialist Association (AIA) on Monday said 420 new factories were set up in capital Kabul during the last eight years, but the plants…


Research Associate

Oct 9, 2018 | University of York

The Department of History seeks to appoint a research fellow in Latin American history to work on a NERC-AHRC funded project on 'Integrating ecological and…


EnPAx Icon Additional Translators Sought for MOOC on Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace

Oct 9, 2018

In preparation for the second running of the Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace massive open online course (MOOC), planned for early 2019, the MOOC team…


The Coming Water Security Crisis

Oct 9, 2018 | Adam Lammon

Syria, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Afghanistan, and Virginia all face a range of threats brought on by rising temperatures and seas levels. Yet, according to Geoffrey…


Iran: Iran Is New Transit Point for Somali Charcoal in Illicit Trade Taxed by Militants: UN Report

Oct 9, 2018 | Michelle Nichols, Reuters

Criminal networks are using Iran as a transit point for illicit Somali charcoal exports that earn Islamist militants al Shabaab millions of dollars annually in…


DRC: AVZ Minerals’ Scoping Study Reveals US$1.6 Billion Net Present Value for Lithium Project in DRC

Oct 9, 2018 | Proactive Investors

AVZ managing director Nigel Ferguson said the Manono Lithium Project is now the largest undeveloped hard rock lithium project globally in terms of grade, mine…


Colombia: Land, Oil, Mining, Drug Crops: Colombian Amazon Tough for Small Farmers

Oct 9, 2018 | Barbara J. Fraser, Catholic News Service

Companies that once avoided Colombia’s Amazonian region because of the hazards of war are now jockeying to profit from timber, oil, minerals and palm oil…


Syria: Erratic Weather and Prolonged Conflict Take Toll on Syria’s Agricultural Output

Oct 9, 2018 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN

Extreme weather conditions during Syria's seventh year of conflict has caused domestic cereal production to decline sharply, two UN agencies announced today. The conflict in…


Internships with the Environmental Change and Security Program

Oct 8, 2018 | Wilson Center

Since 1994, the Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) has actively pursued the connections between the environment, health, population, development, conflict, and security. ECSP brings…