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Kenya or Uganda: Global Resilience Advisor

Aug 7, 2022 | Danish Refugee Council

Founded in 1956, the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is Denmark’s largest, and a leading international NGO - one of the few with a specific expertise…


Myanmar: Consultancy Assignment on Business Operating Model Planning

Aug 7, 2022 | World Wide Fund for Nature

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


Mozambique: Coordinator, Young Climate Action Coalition

Aug 7, 2022 | Save the Children International

Save the Children International (SCI ), a non-profit humanitarian organization with a focus on child welfare, is recruiting candidates for the vacancy mentioned below:

Purpose

Today children are born…


Iraq: Environmental & Social Management (ESM) Advisor (Iraq Nationals only)

Aug 7, 2022 | Norwegian Refugee Council

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in crises across more than 31 countries, providing…


Iraq: Heatwaves Scorch Iraq as Protracted Political Crisis Grinds on

Aug 6, 2022 | Shawn Yuan, Al Jazeera

Under Iraq’s blistering summer heat, thousands gathered inside Baghdad’s Green Zone for mass prayer on Friday. Some wrapped their faces in cloths soaked in water,…


Call for Abstracts: NERPS Conference 2023

Aug 6, 2022 | Network for Education and Research on Peace and Sustainability and Asian Institute of Technology

Following the success of the first Hiroshima International Conference on Peace and Sustainability (HICPS 2022), the NERPS Conference 2023 is a platform to facilitate continued…


Should Nigerian Forces Carpet-Bomb Forest Areas in Tackling Terrorism?

Aug 6, 2022 | Aliyu Dahiru

Several Nigerians, including political leaders in the country, have floated the notion of defeating terrorists in Nigeria with carpet bombing. Terrorists often seek refuge in Nigeria’s…


Hungary: Hungary Eases Logging in Protected Forests to Tackle Gas Crunch

Aug 5, 2022 | Marton Kasnyik, Bloomberg

Hungary waived environmental regulations protecting native forests from logging, showing the increasingly extreme steps the government is willing to take to prepare for next winter’s…


Russia’s Invasion Is Putting the Future of Ukraine’s Forests at Risk

Aug 5, 2022 | Yehor Hrynyk

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has sparked Europe’s largest armed conflict since WWII and inflicted catastrophic damage on the continent’s largest nation. In addition to…


Mozambique: Climate Resilient Development Specialist

Aug 5, 2022 | Aga Khan Foundation

The Aga Khan  Foundation (AKF), alongside its sister AKDN agencies, has implemented innovative, community-driven solutions to development challenges for over 50 years. It brings together…


Chad: Programme Specialist (Climate and Security Risk - Lake Chad Basin Commission)

Aug 5, 2022 | United Nations Development Programme

UNDP is the knowledge frontier organization for sustainable development in the UN Development System and serves as the integrator for collective action to realize the…


Niger, Benin: Peace Advisor for the Civil Peace Service (CPS) in Renewable Natural Resource Governance

Aug 5, 2022 | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

For more than 50 years, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), as a company of the German Federal Government, has been supporting the implementation…


Colombia: How Colombia's Conflict Intensified Violence Against Women and the LGBTQI+ Community

Aug 4, 2022 | Insight Crime

The testimonies of women and LGBTQI+ persons in Colombia have revealed the disproportionate violence they suffered during the country's armed conflict, warning of the cycles…


The ILC Draft Principles on the Protection of the Environment in Armed Conflict

Aug 4, 2022 | Stavros Pantazopoulos

After almost a decade working on the topic “Protection of the environment in relation to armed conflicts” (PERAC), the UN International Law Commission (ILC) adopted…


Senior Researcher, Climate Risk and Human Security

Aug 4, 2022 | Institute for Security Studies

The Institute for Security Studies is an African non-profit organisation with offices in South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia and Senegal. Our work covers transnational crimes, migration,…


Policy Dialogue on the Role of Women in Peacebuilding and Reconciliation in Ethiopia

Aug 3, 2022 | UNDP

UNDP and the Ministry of Women and Social Affairs (MoWSA) organised a one-day national-level policy dialogue in July 2022 to provide a platform for key…


Afghanistan: The Taliban’s Black Gold: Militants Seize on Coal to Reboot Economy

Aug 3, 2022 | Financial Times

To reboot the economic system, the Taliban have aggressively elevated coal exports, brushing apart environmental and moral considerations in a bid to spice up, management…


Liberia: Liberia's Cocoa Sector Gets Big Boost as Regional Collaboration Gears to Overcome Binding Constraints on Growth

Aug 3, 2022 | J.H. Webster Clayeh, FrontPage Africa

As part of efforts to improve cocoa production in Liberia; the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) in collaboration with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) has…


Closing the Gender Gap to Build Forward Better

Aug 3, 2022

Drinkable, usable water is very rare in cyclone-affected areas. One has to walk long distances to reach just a little bit of potted water. Otherwise…


Colombia: Colombia Enlists Ripple Labs to Put Land Deeds on Blockchain

Aug 2, 2022 | Crypto News BTC

Colombia’s authorities has launched a partnership with Ripple Labs, the corporate behind the cryptocurrency XRP, to place land titles on the blockchain, a part of…


UK: PhD on Climate Crisis & Genocide Prevention

Aug 2, 2022 | University of Exeter and University of Queensland

The University of Exeter and the University of Queensland are seeking exceptional students to join a world-leading, cross-continental research team tackling major challenges facing the…


Women are Turning the Tide on Climate Policy Worldwide, and May Launch a New Era for Australia

Aug 1, 2022 | Jacqueline Peel, Annabelle Workman, Kathryn Bowen, and Rebekkah Markey-Towler

When the new federal parliament opened last week, a record number of female politicians took their seats: 38% in the House of Representatives and 57% in the…


Green Peace: How Israel and Its Neighbors Are Fighting to Save the Environment Together

Aug 1, 2022 | Chaim Lax

In Israel, the government has taken the danger of global warming seriously, with the Defense Ministry developing contingency plans for dealing with future heat waves and former…


Land Reform and Peacebuilding in Côte d’Ivoire: Strange Bedfellows?

Jul 31, 2022 | Matthew Mitchell

Though often seen as critical for promoting economic development, land reform is a deeply political process. Considering the symbolic and material significance of land to…


Request for Proposals: The Implications of Climate and Environmental Change on Migration and Displacement (Sectoral and Country Analyses)

Jul 31, 2022 | United States Institute of Peace

USIP is a national, nonpartisan, independent institute, founded by Congress and dedicated to the proposition that a world without violent conflict is possible, practical, and…


Ukraine/Russia/Sudan: Russia Is Plundering Gold in Sudan to Boost Putin's War Effort in Ukraine

Jul 29, 2022 | Nima Elbagir, Barbara Arvanitidis, Tamara Qiblawi, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Mohammed Abo Al Gheit, and Darya Tarasova, CNN

Days after Moscow launched its bloody war on Ukraine, a Russian cargo plane stood on a Khartoum runway, a strip of tarmac surrounded by red-orange…


DRC: DR Congo Launches Controversial Auction for Oil and Gas Blocks

Jul 28, 2022 | Agence France Presse

The Democratic Republic of Congo Thursday launched a controversial auction of 30 oil and gas blocks, despite warnings that drilling in the country's rainforests and…


This Is What Happens When You Treat Fossil Fuels as a National Security Issue

Jul 28, 2022 | Conflict and Environment Observatory

The Manchin climate compromise continues the worrisome trend of treating oil and gas infrastructure as a security necessity—even though they endanger more than they protect.


Women Entrepreneurs in Africa Face More Climate Risks Than Their Male Peers

Jul 28, 2022 | Kate Gannon

The world’s climate is changing. All of us will ultimately be affected by climatic shifts – but some will be hit harder than others.

On the African…


Climate Security: A New Kind of Enemy

Jul 28, 2022 | Wes Martin

Climate change poses a drastic rebalancing of geopolitics, ushering in an era of “climate security”. The world’s militaries will face new challenges as these conditions precipitate. The…