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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…


Iran/Iraq/Syria: Unidentified Drone Strike Targets Iranian Fuel Convoy in Syria - Iraqi Sources

Nov 9, 2022 | Reuters

At least two fuel trucks were destroyed in an air strike by an unidentified drone on the Syrian side of the border with Iraq late…


Vietnam: Police Arrest 7 Farmers in Land-Use Dispute in Vietnamese Highlands

Nov 9, 2022 | Radio Free Asia

In the latest clash over land-use rights in Vietnam, police have detained seven residents in the Central Highlands for trying to prevent men from cutting…


Iran/Iraq/Syria: Strikes in Syria Hit Fuel Convoy from Iraq; Iranians Killed

Nov 9, 2022 | Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Bassem Mroue, Associated Press

Late night airstrikes in eastern Syria along the border with Iraq targeted Iran-backed militiamen, inflicting casualties, Syrian opposition activists said Wednesday. According to two paramilitary…


Fiji: National Consultancy, Women’s Resilience to Disasters (Fiji Nationals Only)

Nov 9, 2022 | UN Women

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and…


Consultancy, Gender Mainstreaming in Peacebuilding

Nov 9, 2022 | Search for Common Ground

Search for Common Ground is an international non-governmental organization that works to end violent conflict and build healthy, safe, and just societies. It is the…


Somalia: Gender Specialist

Nov 9, 2022 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

The key mission of the FAO Representation in Somalia, which is led by the FAO Representative (FAOR), is to assist and support the national government…


South Sudan: Consultancy, Gender Equality and Inclusion Self-Assessment

Nov 9, 2022 | Plan International

Plan International strives to advance children’s rights and equality for girls all over the world. As an independent development and humanitarian organisation, we work alongside…


Iraq: Consultancy, End-term Evaluation for the Women and Girls Rebuilding

Nov 9, 2022 | Oxfam GB

Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty. Together we save, protect, and rebuild lives. And we won’t…