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Gender Equality in Water Security and Climate Resilient Development in Africa

May 17, 2020 | Global Waters Partnership

The Global Water Partnership (GWP) is a multi-stakeholder international action network created in 1996 to foster the implementation of integrated water resources management: the coordinated development and…


Niger: Women Protection and Empowerment Coordinator

May 17, 2020 | International Rescue Committee

The International Rescue Committee is a global humanitarian aid, relief, and development nongovernmental organization. IRC has been present in Niger since 2013 and has a national…


South Sudan: GBV Coordinator

May 17, 2020 | International Medical Corps

International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs.

Established…


Niger: Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Specialist

May 17, 2020 | Creative Associates

Creative Associates International is a dynamic, fast-growing global development firm that specializes in education, economic growth, democratic institutions and stabilization. Based in Washington, D.C., Creative…


West and Central Africa: Regional Gender in Emergency Specialist

May 17, 2020 | Plan International

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.

We believe in the power and potential of every…


Jordan: Gender, Equality, and Social Inclusion (GESI) Advisor

May 17, 2020 | Siren Associates

Siren Associates helps develop safe and secure societies where there is equal access to justice and freedom from fear. Specialising in civil policing transformation and broader…


Iraq: Program Director - WASH & Water Resources Management

May 16, 2020 | 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 countries…


Israel/Palestine: Palestinians Tear Gassed in Protests against Israeli Settlements

May 16, 2020 | Al Jazeera

Israeli forces have fired tear gas at Palestinians protesting against the expansion of Israeli settlements, considered illegal under international law, in northern occupied West Bank, injuring…


Afghanistan: 9 Militants Killed, 2 Soldiers Wounded in Water Dam Attack in Afghanistan

May 16, 2020 | Xinhua

At least nine militants were killed, two Afghan security force members and five militants wounded during a predawn clash in eastern Paktia province on Saturday,…


Programme Manager for Natural Resources and Human Rights

May 16, 2020 | Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, an international non-profit organization tracking the human rights impacts of over 9000 companies worldwide, is seeking a Programme…


Colombia: WASH/Shelter Program Manager

May 16, 2020 | Solidarités International

Solidarités International is operational in Colombia since October 2019. The mission is currently working on reinforcing WASH conditions in the shelters (refugios) along the route…


Colombia: Amazon Forests and Biodiversity Activity

May 16, 2020 | DT Global

DT Global is a fast-growing international development organization that focuses on improving the capability, capacity, and effectiveness of development programming in complex global environments. Working…


Myanmar: Green Business: Environmental Goods and Services Promotion

May 16, 2020 | UNDP

UNDP Myanmar has commenced implementation of its Country Programme for 2018-2022. Integrated programming has guided the design of the new programme in order to better…


Syria: Country Director

May 16, 2020 | 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…


Afghanistan: Technical Advisor for Plastic Waste Recycling

May 16, 2020 | People In Need

People in Need (PIN) is a Czech NGO that provides relief and development assistant in 22 countries around the world. In Afghanistan, PIN has been…


DRC: Expert in Agroecology for Agricultural Development (French fluency required)

May 16, 2020 | Enabel

Enabel is the Belgian Development Agency. It executes and coordinates Belgian international development policy, and works mainly on behalf of the Belgian State. The Agency…


Somalia: Technical Adviser for Somali Water and Land Information Management

May 16, 2020 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN

The main aim of FAO Somalia is to assist government towards strengthened institutional capacity and decision support for Somalia's agriculture, livestock and fisheries sectors and…


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

May 16, 2020 | UNDP

The UNDP Country Office in Myanmar is a key interlocutor and advisor to the government at the national and sub-national on sustainable and inclusive growth,…


Afghanistan: Environmental Specialist (Local Recruitment)

May 16, 2020 | World Bank

The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated…


PhD Multi-level Assessment of Water Stress and Institutional Dynamics in the Water-Climate-Conflict Nexus in Myanmar

May 16, 2020 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is a university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 1880, and ranked among the world's top 150 universities by four major ranking…


The Pandemic's Gender Imperative

May 15, 2020 | Ann Linde and Arancha Gonzalez

Regardless of where one looks, it is women who bear most of the responsibility for holding societies together, be it at home, in health care,…


Kenya: Kenya's Pastoralists Face Hunger and Conflict as Locust Plague Continues

May 15, 2020 | Georgina Smith and Reuben Kayama, Guardian

Kenya is experiencing its worst locust invasion for 70 years. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization, which sounded the alarm in January on the unprecedented…


Syria: Time to Harvest the Honey: Syrian Returnees Find New Livelihoods in Beekeeping

May 15, 2020 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN

The improvement of the security situation in Daraa Governorate in southwest Syria has allowed thousands of displaced families to return to their homes. With oversight from FAO’s…


Israel/Jordan: King Warns Israel of 'Massive Conflict' over Annexation

May 15, 2020 | Ammonews

German magazine Der Spiegel published on Friday an interview with His Majesty King Abdullah that covered the latest developments in the Middle East and the…


Afghanistan: Afghanistan to Launch Its First Gemstone Certification Lab

May 14, 2020 | Wadsam

Silk Road Heart will be Afghanistan’s first gemstone certification lab and lapidary to be launched in June 2020 with support from USAID INVEST. According to…


Empowering Women and Youth for Transformative Climate and Environment Justice

May 14, 2020 | Tracy Kajumba

At the beginning of March, Tracy Kajumba was a panellist at the OECD Global Forum on Environment. Here she reflects further on how women and…


Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Mining Revenue Sinks as Pandemic Hits Production and Prices

May 14, 2020 | Cooper Inveen, Reuters

Sierra Leone is weathering a dramatic crunch in mining revenue as COVID-19 restrictions hurt companies’ ability to export gold and diamonds and access essential supplies.…


Libya's Forgotten Half: Between Conflict and Pandemic, Women Pay the Higher Price

May 14, 2020 | Asma Khalifa

Immediately after the state of emergency was declared in Libya, the government in Tripoli began dispensing funds intended to combat the pandemic. Half of it…


Myanmar: Naga Tribes of Myanmar Face Loss of Land and Forest under New Law

May 14, 2020 | Robert Bociaga, Mongabay

The Naga tribes inhabit the hills in the northwestern corner of Myanmar and northeast India. However, their rights and culture have been recently undermined by…


AU Leadership Absent From Egypt and Ethiopia Dam Dispute

May 14, 2020 | Alvin Young

After years of negotiations, Egypt has written to the UN Security Council about what it considers to be Ethiopia's failure to reach an agreement over the filling…