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Myanmar: Program Officer, Investment and Conflict

Apr 20, 2020 | US Institute of Peace

The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) is an American federal institution tasked with promoting conflict resolution and prevention worldwide. It provides research, analysis, and…


Syria: Head of Mission

Apr 20, 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…


DRC: Environmental Safeguarding Officer – Kinshasa

Apr 20, 2020 | ACTED

Since 1993, as an international non-governmental organization, ACTED has been committed to immediate humanitarian relief to support those in urgent need and protect people’s dignity,…


South Sudan: Program Director

Apr 20, 2020 | Tearfund

Tearfund is a UK Christian relief and development agency. It currently works in around 50 countries, with a primary focus on supporting those in poverty…


Iraq: International Water Accounting Specialist

Apr 20, 2020 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN

The Regional Office for Near East and North Africa (FAO-RNE) leads a key Regional Initiative on Water Scarcity. Established in the second half of 2013,…


Myanmar: National Evaluation Consultant for Final Evaluation of Myanmar UN-REDD Programme

Apr 20, 2020 | UNDP

The UN-REDD Programme is the United Nations Joint collaborative initiative on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) in developing countries. The Programme was…


Myanmar: International Evaluation Consultant (Team Leader) for Final Evaluation of Myanmar UN-REDD Programme

Apr 20, 2020 | UNDP

The UN-REDD Programme is the United Nations Joint collaborative initiative on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) in developing countries. The Programme was…


Colombia: Pacific REDD+ Coordinator

Apr 20, 2020 | Chemonics

Chemonics seeks a Pacific REDD+ coordinator to implement the Wildlife Works Carbon IQS for the USAID Páramos and Forests Activity in Colombia. The coordinator will…


Iraq: Oil Price Drop Fuels Economic Crisis [Video]

Apr 19, 2020 | Simona Foltyn, Al Jazeera

Iraq has been hit by political instability that has effectively left it without a government. The country has also been caught in the middle of…


A Gender-Equal Ethiopian Parliament Can Improve the Lives of All Women

Apr 19, 2020 | James Jeffrey

Recent gains by women in the Ethiopian political landscape offer a chance to improve gender equality around the country and put an end to long-standing…


Afghanistan: Can the Afghan State Intervene Successfully In The Conflict Between Nomads And Settlers? – Analysis

Apr 19, 2020 | Antonio Giustozzi, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit

The conflict between nomads and settlers is no longer limited to a few districts of Hazarajat. It has spread to many corners of the country…


DRC: Congo Mine Closures Would Cause Economic and Social Crisis, Minister Says

Apr 17, 2020 | Helen Reid and Hereward Holland, Reuters

Democratic Republic of Congo’s mining minister warned mine shutdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic would trigger a “catastrophic” economic and social crisis in the country,…


Request for Proposals: Environment and Conflict in Burma / Myanmar

Apr 17, 2020 | US Institute of Peace

The effects of climate change are appearing faster than anticipated around the world. The costs could have drastic and potentially catastrophic impacts on citizens, communities,…


COVID-19 Shows How Reckless Jordan Valley Annexation Would Be

Apr 17, 2020 | Gidon Bromberg, Yana Abu Taleb, and Nada Majdalani

“Cutting off the nose to spite the face” is an apt expression to describe the lack of rationale behind Israeli government policies calling for unilateral…


Conflict to Conservation: How Guerrilla Fighters Became Environmentalists

Apr 17, 2020 | Eleanor Whitworth

The unlikely protectors of Columbia’s wildlife and flora. They were guerrilla fighters in a lengthy civil war. Now they're protecting Colombia's pristine, richly biodiverse jungles and…


Demilitarizing the Response to Climate Change

Apr 17, 2020 | Peace Science Digest

A range of policy options are available to countries to address and respond to climate change. Looking specifically at the U.S., the authors of this…


South Sudan: US Watchdog Sounds Alarm on Mismanaged Mining Sector in South Sudan

Apr 16, 2020 | Ajifowoke Michael Gbenga, Ventures

Despite boasting of the potential to become a catalyst for major economic growth, South Sudan’s mining sector could, on the contrary, be the next source…


A Gender-Sensitive Response is Missing From the COVID-19 Crisis

Apr 16, 2020 | Jamila Razzaq

Razia with her six children and a drug-addicted husband lives in one room in a three-room compound shared with 20 other people. Pre-COVID-19, all the…


A Gender Lens for COVID-19

Apr 16, 2020 | Susan Papp and Marcy Hersh

When pandemics strike, world leaders and health responders must adapt quickly to the looming threat. Often the last factor they consider – if it makes…


Pandemic Hits Women Harder, Says WSI

Apr 15, 2020

Is a gender viewpoint needed to examine the COVID-19 risks and impacts on fisheries and aquaculture? According to Natalia Briceño-Lagos and Marie Christine Monfort of…


Environmental Effects of Chinese Projects in Myanmar

Apr 15, 2020 | Megha Gupta

The Chinese “project of the century” — the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which is a transcontinental network of roads, railways and ports, covering dams,…


In Frozen Negotiations over the Donbas, Environment Is Everything

Apr 15, 2020 | Gabriella Gricius

Despite the many issues plaguing negotiations to bring ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine to an end, one aspect that positively contributes to mutual cooperation and…


Gender Relations in Forestry: Beyond a Headcount

Apr 15, 2020 | Kate Evans

Women can play a huge role as ‘critical actors’ in defending and managing their forests, says Ph.D. candidate and gender researcher Priyanka Bhalla from the…


Women Leaders Are Doing a Disproportionately Great Job at Handling the Pandemic. So Why Aren’t There More of Them?

Apr 15, 2020 | Leta Hong Fincher

CNN’s Alisyn Camerota and former US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power discuss how seven female world leaders are spearheading a strong response to…


Myanmar: Myanmar Seizes 800 Tonnes of Illegal Timber in Single Week

Apr 15, 2020 | The Star

Myanmar's Forest Department recently seized over 846 tonnes of illegal timber in a week, according to the Information Ministry on Thursday (April 9).


Colombia: Colombia's Indigenous Land Defenders

Apr 15, 2020 | Al Jazeera

Celia Umenza is a high-ranking leader of the largest Indigenous group in Colombia, the Nasa. The Nasa is an unarmed civilian defence force that has been…


India: Agrobiodiversity Initiatives Open Women’s Horizons in Kerala

Apr 15, 2020 | Mahima Jain, Mongabay

Kaliamma Nanjan, 70, sings as she cuts through her farm in Kerala’s Western Ghats. She deftly navigates the slopes of Attappady in Palakkad district with…


China/Vietnam/South China Sea: US ‘Seriously Concerned’ over China Sinking Vietnamese Fishing Boat

Apr 15, 2020 | VNExpress

U.S. State Department spokesman Morgan Ortagus Monday condemned China for sinking a Vietnamese fishing boat, calling it an assertion of an "unlawful" claim. Ortagus said…


Colombia: Deforestation Surged Following End of Armed Conflict in Colombia

Apr 15, 2020 | Sonia Aronson, Phys.org

Deforestation is skyrocketing in the country with the world's second-highest number of species. The cause? Ineffective conservation in protected areas following decades of civil war.


DRC: Congo Governor Condemns Rising Insecurity at Mines in Gold Province

Apr 15, 2020 | Reuters

Illegal mining and trading are fuelling worsening violence on mine sites, the governor of Democratic Republic of Congo’s gold-rich Ituri province said, after armed robbers…