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Myanmar: Project Manager / Chief Technical Advisor, Governance for Resilience and Sustainability Project (GRSP)
Mar 7, 2020
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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,…
South Sudan: Emergency Response Team’s WASH Project Manager
Mar 7, 2020
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Medair
Medair is a Swiss humanitarian organisation inspired by Christian faith to relieve human suffering in some of the world’s most remote and devastated places. Since 1989, they have been…
Syria: Rehabilitation WASH Program Manager
Mar 7, 2020
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Solidarités International
SI has been rehabilitating water treatment and irrigation stations in several locations in NES, as a complement to its emergency activities (water trucking and emergency…
Burkina Faso: Assistant Researcher
Mar 7, 2020
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InterPeace
Interpeace is an international organisation for peacebuilding that strengthens the ability of societies to manage conflict themselves in sustainable and non-violent ways. Interpeace designs and…
DPRK: Programme Manager - Livelihoods
Mar 7, 2020
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Concern Worldwide
Concern Worldwide is an Irish-based non-governmental, international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in…
Ethiopia: Trouble as Trump Dives into the Dispute over Ethiopia's Nile Mega-Dam
Mar 6, 2020
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Benita van Eyssen, Deutsche Welle
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is a massive hydroelectric power plant being constructed on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia. In mid-January, Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan reached…
Climate Change Hits Women Hardest, Report Finds
Mar 6, 2020
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Sarah Mac Donald
Women are disproportionately hurt by climate change and corporate human rights violations throughout the world, according to a new study by Trócaire, the aid and development…
Colombia: Where Indigenous Women Take Lead on Land Rights, Communities Thrive
Mar 6, 2020
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Andrew J. Wight
MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA – Across the globe, women are on the front lines of protecting traditional and Indigenous land from threats like mining, ranching, and a…
Bangladesh: The Women Fighting Climate Change in Bangladesh
Mar 6, 2020
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Marigold Warner, British Journal of Photography
In disaster-prone areas like Barishal, a major city that lies on the bank of Kirtankhola river in Bangladesh, life for women is a constant struggle.…
Five Ways Gender Equity Can Help Save the Planet
Mar 6, 2020
Around the world, women are pulling above their weight to sustain communities despite barriers in access to nearly everything: education, information, paid work, credit, lands,…
International Women's Day 2020: Women, War and Water in Yemen
Mar 6, 2020
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Leonie Nimmo
On International Women’s Day 2018 the UN Envoy to Yemen received an open letter calling on him to take a firm stand on women’s demands and to…
Gender Inequality Must Be Addressed for Our Work to Make a Lasting Difference
Mar 6, 2020
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Danny Harvey
I started working in international development over 20 years ago. Very enthusiastic, I believed my knowledge and skills in agriculture would bring about real transformation…
Weathering the Storm or Storming the Norms: Can Climate-Smart Agriculture Produce Gender Equality?
Mar 6, 2020
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Sophia Huyer, Samuel Partey, and Bruce Campbell
As Nitya Rao and colleagues show, a lot is known about the effects of climate change on women. Most research focuses on women’s vulnerability as a result…
Making Gender Equality Integral to Global Agricultural Research
Mar 6, 2020
Our food systems face unprecedented challenges, from increasingly unpredictable weather to acute biodiversity loss. To feed a population of over 9.6 billion people in 2050, the…
Women Ally with Nature to Adapt to Climate Change
Mar 6, 2020
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Gabriela Flores
Nature-based solutions to the global environment crisis are increasingly in the spotlight. High-profile individuals such as campaigner Greta Thunberg and actor Leonardo DiCaprio, as well as business and governments, have all emphasised…
Climate Change Worsening Violence Against Women
Mar 6, 2020
Climate change disproportionately affects women. In the United States, women have their pregnancies affected by climate change and according to Climate Reality, there’s evidence of how climate change is…
Afghanistan: The Afghan Scorpion Farmer Harvesting Valuable Venom for International Buyers
Mar 5, 2020
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Kern Hendricks, National
Scorpion venom is highly prized among medical researchers. “Not all the venom components of scorpions are dangerous to humans, and there are actually many components…
Hidden in Plain Sight: Women and Girls in Internal Displacement
Mar 5, 2020
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Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
More than half of the 41 million people worldwide living in internal displacement at the end of 2018 were women and girls. They experience displacement…
Why Climate Change Disproportionately Affects Women
Mar 5, 2020
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Joe McCarthy
Climate change is a planetary phenomenon that will impact all countries, but its effects are being shaped by pervasive and entrenched gender inequality.
Heat waves, droughts, rising…
Eliminate Legal Discrimination Against Women to Advance Food Security and Nutrition
Mar 5, 2020
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Ilaria Bottigliero and Françoise Trine
In societies where there is a high degree of gender inequality, there is also a significantly higher proportion of undernourishment among women and girls.
In order to effectively…
Liberia: Resolution Underway in Boniken-Weleken Land Dispute
Mar 4, 2020
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New Dawn
A team of local authorities headed by County Superintendent, George A. Prowd have instituted measures aimed at restoring peace over a disputed farmland between Boniken…
Iraq: As Oil Prices Fall, How Will Iraq Pay the Bills?
Mar 4, 2020
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Agence France-Presse
As crude prices plunge, Iraq's oil sector is facing a triple threat that has slashed revenues, risks denting production, and may spell trouble for future…
Revisiting Conflict Minerals Compliance - Developments, Trends and Action Items for the Current Reporting Year
Mar 4, 2020
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Michael R. Littenberg, Anne-Marie L. Beliveau, and Nellie V. Binder
The EU Conflict Minerals Regulation takes effect on January 1, 2021. The EU Regulation generally will require importers of tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold (“3TG”…
In Eastern Myanmar, the Karen Watch over a Revolutionary Forest
Mar 4, 2020
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Benjamin D. Hodgdon
For more than 70 years, since shortly after the country formerly known as Burma gained independence, a low-boil insurgency has fought for Karen self-determination, promised…
Environmental Mainstreaming at the 23rd National Mine Action Directors and UN Advisers Meetings
Mar 3, 2020
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Linsey Cottrell and Kendra Dupuy
It was very encouraging to have the environment highlighted in several of the presentations at this year’s National Mine Directors Meeting in Geneva. A plenary…
South Sudan: UN: South Sudan’s Oil Patch Is Living on Borrowed Time
Mar 3, 2020
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Tsvetana Paraskova, OilPrice.com
South Sudan continues to spend oil revenues in advance and its oil sector continues to lack transparency, according to a UN report that was made…
Conflict Minerals: UN General Assembly Highlights Importance of Regime to Curb Conflict Diamonds
Mar 3, 2020
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Xinhua
The UN General Assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution that acknowledges the successful role that the Kimberley Process, a mechanism aimed to prevent "conflict diamonds"…
Conflict Minerals: Civil Society Calls for Transparency about Companies Subjected to the EU Regulation on 3TG Conflict Minerals
Mar 3, 2020
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Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations
EU member states seem to be adopting a loose interpretation of the text of the Regulation on the responsible sourcing of minerals from conflict-affected and…
Climate Change: Report Warns of Climate Change Induced Global Security Risks
Mar 3, 2020
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Leila Mead, International Institute for Sustainable Development
National security, military and intelligence experts are warning of high to catastrophic threats to security at different warming scenarios, and urging a rapid reduction and phasing…
Myanmar: Myanmar Govt Faces Setbacks in Enforcing Compliance with EITI Database
Mar 3, 2020
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John Liu and Thompson Chau, Myanmar Times
Myanmar’s Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) unit, a government body under the finance ministry, held a press conference on February 28 to address criticisms over…