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Food and Water Security Solutions: Reflections on Mitigating Climate-induced Population Displacement in Africa

Dec 16, 2021 | Christopher Graham

Worse, the Word Bank reports that climate change can potentially wipe out decades of social and economic progress in the developing world by displacing millions of people,…


Call for Nominations: 2022 Women Building Peace Award

Dec 15, 2021 | USIP

By nominating a woman peacebuilder, you are honoring her accomplishments, validating her dedicated work to the peacebuilding field, and recognizing her contributions to preventing and…


Environmental Governance in Frozen Conflicts

Dec 15, 2021 | Clayton Payne

When wars end without an internationally recognised agreement to resolve them, conflicts can become frozen. In this post, Clayton Payne examines how the frozen conflicts affecting…


Climate Change and Ecological Security Must Be at the Center of Our National Defense Strategy

Dec 15, 2021 | Holly Kaufman, Sherri Goodman, and John Conger

At a United Nations Security Council meeting in September 2021, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken asserted, “Look at almost every place where you see…


Iraq’s Waning Water Resources in 2021

Dec 15, 2021 | Wim Zwijnenburg

The summer of 2021 witnessed how water security is at the core of the debate on the climate crisis in Iraq. Current estimates by the…


Liberia: Sapo National Park Now Prepared to Receive Tourists

Dec 14, 2021 | FrontPage Africa

Through the help of the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation and the instrumentality of the Forestry Development Authority, a new Ecolodge has been opened in Sinoe County…


DRC: Investigation Sounds Alarm on Risks in Congo’s Nascent Lithium Sector

Dec 14, 2021 | Mining.com

A new investigation by Global Witness looking into the Democratic Republic of Congo’s nascent lithium sector sounds the alarm bell on a swathe of potential…


Mozambique: National Value Chain & Business Plan Specialist

Dec 13, 2021 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and…


The Changing Face of the Global Humanitarian Crisis: Gender, Climate Change, and Humanitarian Interventions

Dec 13, 2021 | Shruti Samala

“In a changing world with galloping, growing needs, we can’t keep making the same efforts, issuing the same pleas, and just write bigger and bigger…


Syria: Programme Analyst, Community Resilience

Dec 13, 2021 | UNDP

The United Nations Development Programme is a United Nations organization tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development.

The priorities…


Sudan: Project Manager

Dec 13, 2021 | 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 in…


Consultancy: Climate-Conflict-Migration

Dec 13, 2021 | International Organization for Migration

As part of an ongoing initiative to strengthen institutional awareness, knowledge and activity related to the climate-conflict-migration link, where IOM has significant global programming and…


CAR: Communications & Media Coordinator

Dec 13, 2021 | African Parks

African Parks is a non-profit conservation organisation that takes on the complete responsibility for the rehabilitation and long-term management of national parks in partnership with…


Myanmar: Content Creation Consultant

Dec 13, 2021 | World Wide Fund for Nature

WWF-Myanmar is looking for a consultant to join the Communications and Advocacy team and create new content each month. The content created would be used…


Russia’s ‘Nyet’ Does Not Mean Climate Security Is off the Security Council Agenda

Dec 13, 2021 | Florian Krampe and Cedric de Coning

On Monday, 13 December, Russia used its veto in the United Nations Security Council to block a thematic resolution on climate change and security put…


Call for Submissions: Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Dec 13, 2021 | UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

The Office of the High Commissioner has requested two Calls for Submission from the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP). The first…


Myanmar: External Relations Director, Smart Power Myanmar

Dec 13, 2021 | Pact

A nonprofit international development organization founded in 1971, Pact works on the ground in nearly 40 countries to improve the lives of those who are…


Ukraine: Project Manager

Dec 13, 2021 | UNDP

The United Nations Development Programme is a United Nations organization tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development.

The Ukrainian…


Liberia: Liberia's Forestry Industry Paralysed By Poor Regulation

Dec 13, 2021 | EricOpa Doue, FrontPage Africa

A power struggle is playing out here deep in the forest and the stakes for the local people are high. Logging companies with concession agreements…


Afghanistan: Top Taliban Leader Claims They Have ‘Made Progress’ on Gender Rights

Dec 13, 2021 | Mike Brest


Morocco: Refugee Women Scale Atlas Mountain to Tackle Gender Violence

Dec 13, 2021 | Kawtar Abendag and Ass Hagouchi


A Gender Dimension of Energy: Modern Cooking Fuels Connected to Quicker Demographic Transition

Dec 13, 2021 | Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research


Afghanistan: Mining at Mes Aynak Has Resumed: Officials

Dec 13, 2021 | TOLOnews

Officials of the Islamic Emirate said that the Logar Mes Aynak copper-mining project, a major venture with China, has resumed operations.


Mozambique: National Fisheries Social Specialist

Dec 13, 2021 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and…


Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Lead

Dec 13, 2021 | Natural Resource Governance Institute

The Natural Resource Governance Institute is an independent nonprofit organisation dedicated to improving countries' governance over their natural resources to promote sustainable and inclusive development.

About…


EnPAx Icon Call for Speakers: XV World Forest Congress

Dec 13, 2021 | Forest Interest Group of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association

We are very pleased to announce this Call for Speakers. The Forest Interest Group (FIG) has been awarded to organise a side event at the…


Myanmar: Distributed Rural Electrification Director

Dec 13, 2021 | Pact

A nonprofit international development organization founded in 1971, Pact works on the ground in nearly 40 countries to improve the lives of those who are…


Niger: Expert in Governance of Natural Resources Climate (National)

Dec 13, 2021 | Enabel

Enabel is the Belgian Development Agency. It carries out Belgian governmental cooperation. The Agency also implements actions for other national and international organizations. With its Belgian and international…


DRC: Deputy Chief of Party Hearth Gorilla Coffee Alliance

Dec 13, 2021 | Wildlife Conservation Society

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a US non-profit, tax-exempt, private organization established in 1895 that saves wildlife and wild places by understanding critical issues,…


Nigeria: Chief of Party, WASH

Dec 13, 2021 | Wildlife Conservation Society

The Wildlife Conservation Society is an international NGO headquartered at Bronx Zoo in New York City working to save wildlife and wild lands and to…