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EnPAx Icon Seeking Active Members for the Newly Re-Launched Gender Interest Group

Nov 1, 2020 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association is excited to announce the re-launching of the Gender Interest Group, with Dr. Marisa O. Ensor as Chair!  While the precise…


Cambodia: National Consultant, Gender and Child Labour in Fisheries

Nov 1, 2020 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN

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…


Syria: WASH Program Manager

Nov 1, 2020 | Solidarités International

Solidarités International is a non-profit organization working in areas of conflict and natural disasters. Its main aim is to provide quick and effective support for…


Myanmar: WASH Program Manager Consortium

Nov 1, 2020 | Solidarités International

Solidarités International is a non-profit organization working in areas of conflict and natural disasters. Its main aim is to provide quick and effective support for…


Niger: Chief of Party, SERVIR West Africa

Nov 1, 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…


South Sudan: REACH WASH Assessment Officer

Nov 1, 2020 | IMPACT Initiatives

IMPACT Initiatives is a leading Geneva-based think-and-do tank which aims to improve the impact of humanitarian, stabilisation and development action through data, partnerships and capacity…


Nigeria: WASH M&E Officer

Nov 1, 2020 | International Rescue Committee

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at…


Project Assistant, Climate Diplomacy

Nov 1, 2020 | adelphi

adelphi is an independent think tank and leading international public policy consultancy on climate, environment and development. Our 200-strong team of experts and specialists plays…


Liberia: Consultancy to Conduct a Gender and Conflict Analysis along the Coast

Nov 1, 2020 | Conservation International

Conservation International is an American nonprofit environmental organization whose mission is to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity, such as…


Iraq: Consultant, Assessment, Technical Design/Concept Development, Training on Solar-Powered Irrigation Systems

Nov 1, 2020 | Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps works in places of transition, where conflict, disaster, political upheaval, or economic collapse present opportunities to build more secure, productive, and just communities.…


Analyse de la Vulnérabilité Face au Changement Climatique et Risques Environnementaux, et de la Sensibilité des Populations et des Ecosystèmes aux Conflits d’Utilisation des Ressources Naturelles

Nov 1, 2020 | International Union for the Conservation of Nature

Afin de consolider, mettre à l’échelle et étendre les acquis des initiatives menées depuis plus d’une décennie dans le domaine de la gouvernance de l’environnement…


Somalia: Multi-Programme Baseline Study Process

Nov 1, 2020 | Norwegian Church Aid

Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) is a diaconal organization established in Norway to work with people around the world to eradicate poverty and injustice. Our vision…


Yemen: WASH Team Leader

Nov 1, 2020 | Oxfam

Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon…


Nigeria: WASH Assistant (two positions)

Nov 1, 2020 | Danish Refugee Council

Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a Danish international non-governmental organization, which promotes and supports durable solutions to the problems faced by refugees and internally displaced…


Nigeria: WASH Officer

Nov 1, 2020 | Danish Refugee Council

Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a Danish international non-governmental organization, which promotes and supports durable solutions to the problems faced by refugees and internally displaced…


Doctoral Student: Water Conflict, Cooperation, and Diplomacy (two positions)

Nov 1, 2020 | IHE Delft, Institute for Water Education

IHE Delft is the largest international graduate water education facility in the world and is based in Delft, the Netherlands. The mission of IHE Delft…


DRC: Programme Coordinator

Nov 1, 2020 | Concern Worldwide

Concern Worldwide started working in DRC in 1994. Since that time we have grown into one of the leading humanitarian organisations operating in DRC with…


Central Africa: Consultancy, Environmental & Social Safeguards

Nov 1, 2020 | World Wide Fund for Nature

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


Colombia: Women the ‘Driving Force’ for Peacebuilding in Colombia: Deputy UN Chief

Oct 30, 2020 | UN News

The Deputy Secretary-General held a meeting, via videoconference, with President Iván Duque where they discussed the socio-economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the country, protecting the…


Kenyan: The Fight for Laikipia’s Key Rivers: Why Locals Are Fighting for Rivers in Laikipia

Oct 30, 2020 | Jacinta Mutura, Standard

River Mutara is a lifeline for more than 30,000 households, livestock and wildlife in Laikipia County. But in the past five years, it has been…


DRC: A History of Pillage, Destination Unknown

Oct 30, 2020 | Africa Report

Congo's history is a long litany of theft and conflict. From the slave trade, to the brutal Belgian colonisation, to the Cold War manipulation and…


Liberia: First Rural Women Land Rights Conference Ends in Gbarnga

Oct 29, 2020 | Selma Lomax, Front Page Africa

Gbarnga, Bong County – Advocacy for women land ownership rights and call to empower women in Liberia were some of the topics that dominated a three-day…


Speakers Call for Expedited Action to Empower, Protect Women in Conflict Zones, as Security Council Marks 20 Years since Adoption of Landmark Resolution

Oct 29, 2020 | UN Security Council

Despite Notable Progress, Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Still Rampant, Women’s Leadership in Peace Processes Sorely Lagging, Secretary-General Warns. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, the head of the…


UN: 20 Years After Landmark UN Resolution, Women Still Excluded in Peace Processes

Oct 29, 2020 | Margaret Besheer, Voice of America

NEW YORK - Twenty years after a landmark U.N. Security Council resolution seeking to include more women in the prevention and settlement of conflicts, the…


Colombia: Embracing Organic in Colombia

Oct 29, 2020 | Tom Joyce, Fruitnet.com

Eosta's first shipment of limes from Colombian exporter Persian arrived last week with a surprise attached: almost 100 postcards from farmworkers in the valley of…


Afghanistan: Afghanistan Achieves Transparency Despite Barriers

Oct 29, 2020 | Afghanistan Times

Following its second Validation, Afghanistan has made  meaningful progress in implementing the EITI Standard . The country has improved its transparency of licenses and contracts,…


Colombia: Years after Defeating a Giant Gold Mine, Activists in Colombia Still Fear for Their Lives

Oct 29, 2020 | Juan Zuleta Valencia, Mongabay

Residents of the municipality of Cajamarca in eastern Colombia said “no” to what would have been the second-largest open-pit gold mine in the world. Now…


Climate Change Is a Security Issue: An Interview with Geoff Dabelko

Oct 29, 2020 | Cindy Zhou

“Climate change fundamentally impacts the political economic stability of a country,” said Dabelko. In the case of the Syrian Civil War, many experts point out…


Call for Papers: Environmental Degradation, Climate Change, and Mass Violence

Oct 27, 2020 | International Association of Genocide Scholars

The International Association of Genocide Scholars invites manuscripts on the intersections of the environment and collective violence for a special issue of Genocide Studies and Prevention,…


Call for Papers: Water Security and Climate Change Conference

Oct 27, 2020 | Centers for Natural Resources and Development and Sustainable Water Management in Developing Countries Network

The Water Security and Climate Change conference (WSCC) is an annual event where scientists, policy makers and stakeholders from various sectors discuss the diverse facets…