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Liberia: Expert Nutrition

Oct 23, 2018 | Welthungerhilfe

Welthungerhilfe (www.welthungerhilfe.de) is one of the large and respected private organisations in the field of development cooperation and humanitarian aid in Germany. It carries out…


South Sudan: Livelihoods Manager

Oct 23, 2018 | Danish Refugee Council

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) and Danish Demining Group (DDG) is a humanitarian, non-governmental, non-profit organization founded in 1956 that works in more than 30…


Myanmar: Food Security and Livelihoods Program Manager

Oct 23, 2018 | Action Contre la Faim France

Action Against Hunger (or Action Contre La Faim (ACF) in French) is a global humanitarian organization which originated in France and is committed to ending…


South Sudan: Environmental Impact Assessment

Oct 23, 2018 | Relief International

About RI:                

Relief International is a leading nonprofit organization working in 20 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings,…


Syria: WASH Program Manager

Oct 23, 2018 | Solidarites International

SI, which has been present in Syria since 2013 is dedicated to work on recently opened and challenging areas to provide lifesaving activities to the…


Syria: Programme Assistant (VAM and Livelihood)

Oct 23, 2018 | World Food Programme

ABOUT WFP

The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.  The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve…


Consultant: Evaluation for rural integrated development in Somaliland project

Oct 23, 2018 | Islamic Relief

Islamic Relief Somalia (IRS) has been operating in Somalia since 2006 and has responded to conflict and drought affected people through provision of life saving…


Mozambique: Livelihoods Specialist

Oct 23, 2018 | Trickle Up

Trickle Up’s mission is to empower people living on less than $1.90 a day to build sustainable livelihoods for a better quality of life utilizing…


Afghanistan: External review of Sustainable Livelihood and Social Development Project

Oct 23, 2018 | Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

1.1. Context

Despite high urbanization rates over the past decade, Afghanistan remains an essentially rural society, with an estimated 70% of the population living in rural…


Somalia: Consultant: WASH Health & Food Security Intervention in Response to Drought in South-Central Somalia

Oct 23, 2018 | World Vision

Assessment Summary

Project Name: WASH, Health, Nutrition and Food Security Intervention in Response to Drought in South-Central Somalia

Assessment Type: Baseline Survey

Evaluation Purpose

The purpose of the baseline…


South Sudan: Food Security and Livelihood Project Manager

Oct 23, 2018 | Premiere Urgence Internationale

Première Urgence Internationale is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-political and non-religious international aid organization. Our teams are committed to supporting civilians’ victims of marginalization and exclusion,…


Myanmar: Water for Women Programme Manager

Oct 23, 2018 | Oxfam GB

Oxfam is a leading International NGO with a worldwide reputation for excellence and over 70 years of experience. It’s not unfortunate that people live in…


Afghanistan: Congo Fever Spreads in Afghanistan as Displaced Farmers Move Livestock from Drought-Ravaged Land

Oct 23, 2018 | Ben Farmer, Telegraph

Cases of a deadly tick-borne fever are increasingly sharply in Afghanistan as a severe drought forces farmers to move infected livestock around the country. September…


Afghanistan: Can Religious Leaders Help Keep Kabul's Water Flowing?

Oct 23, 2018 | Shadi Khan Saif, Deutsche Welle

Foreign invasions, civil war, terror attacks, competing warlords — fate has not been kind to Afghanistan in the past decades. Now, as many people leave…


Conflict Minerals: Will Blockchain Fix the Mineral Traceability Woes?

Oct 23, 2018 | Collins Mwai, New Times

The persistent concerns by miners and other players along the mining industry value chain regarding the high costs of implementing mineral traceability could find a solution…


Liberia: NGO Coalition of Liberia Launches Strategy Advocacy Plan Aimed at Strengthening Forest Governance

Oct 23, 2018 | FrontPage Africa

Atty. Kofi Woods, ex-minister of Public Works says ownership of logging companies by government officials, the Carbon Credit complication and other forms of criminal quest…


Afghanistan: Poverty Rising in Afghanistan amid Prolonged Conflicts, Drought

Oct 22, 2018 | Xinhua

Harsh poverty and rising unemployment have spread across Afghanistan as the prolonged conflicts and fighting in the country, as well as drought and a decline…


Iraq: The World’s Fourth-Biggest Oil Producer Can’t Keep the Lights on

Oct 22, 2018 | Mohammed Sergie, Bloomberg

Iraq is fast becoming a global oil powerhouse, gaining stature in OPEC after it surpassed Canada this year as the world’s fourth-biggest producer. But the…


Palestine/Gaza: Olympic Dreams: Palestinian Swim Team Braves Pollution to Train in Gaza Waters

Oct 22, 2018 | Arab News

The Mediterranean hugs the entire 40-kilometer western border of the Gaza Strip, but almost no one enters its waters. The desperate shortage of energy and…


Tanzania: Dar, Kinshasa Join Hands against Minerals Smuggling

Oct 21, 2018 | Pius Rugonzibwa, Tanzania Daily News

Tanzania has invited mining investors from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as both countries plan to host mining forums and joint strategies in…


Climate Change: Climate Change Is Exacerbating World Conflicts, Says Red Cross President

Oct 21, 2018 | Helen Davidson, Guardian

Climate change is already exacerbating domestic and international conflicts, and governments must take steps to ensure it does not get worse, the head of the…


Iraq: World Iraqi Oil Minister Reverses NOC Decree to Take Ownership of State Oil Firms

Oct 21, 2018 | Kurdistan 24

Iraq’s Oil Minister, Jabar al-Luaibi, reversed his decision to transfer the ownership of nine state-owned oil companies from the ministry to the newly formed National…


EcoPeace Middle East Receives 2018 Stanford Bright Award

Oct 21, 2018 | ISRAEL21c

The Stanford Bright Award for 2018 was won by Gidon Bromberg and Munqeth Mehyar, the cofounders of EcoPeace, for their exceptional contributions to global sustainability…


South Sudan: Interrogation of Lundin Execs for Crimes Against Humanity and Environment in South Sudan

Oct 20, 2018 | Terry Swartzberg, ViaNews

“Lundin Petroleum’s chief executive and chairman are set to be charged with aggravated crimes against human rights over the Swedish oil company’s role in causing…


South Sudan: Sweden to Interrogate Oil Firm over Human Rights Violation in South Sudan

Oct 19, 2018 | Sudan Tribune

The Swedish centre-left government Thursday approved the prosecutor’s application to question Lundin Petroleum’s chairman, Ian Lundin, and CEO, Alex Schneiter, for gross human rights violations…


Liberia: Gender and Land Tenure Specialist

Oct 18, 2018 | Landesa

Landesa helps the world’s poorest people gain land rights; reducing poverty and conflict, increasing economic activity, empowering women, strengthening food security, and improving environmental stewardship.

Landesa…


Politics and Peace: The Fate of Colombia's Forests (Commentary)

Oct 18, 2018 | Haley Wiebel

Deforestation in the post-conflict era has grown at an alarming rate. Rather than a policy solution, Columbia’s former president Juan Manuel Santos’ environmental legacy should…


Lessons from Post-Conflict States: Peacebuilding Must Factor in Environment and Climate Change

Oct 18, 2018 | Karolina Eklöw and Florian Krampe

Natural resource management appears to be an important factor post-conflict states must consider if they wish to build a foundation for a socially, economically, and…


Why Successful Peacebuilding Means Managing Natural Resources

Oct 18, 2018 | World Economic Forum

It might be tempting to dismiss environmental issues when considering the seemingly insurmountable task of building peace after armed conflict. Yet, it is increasingly clear…


Pakistan: Illegal Import of Fruit and Vegetables Affecting Balochistan Farmers

Oct 18, 2018 | Israr Khan, The News

Lawmakers from Balochistan on Wednesday requested the government to block the illegally import of fruits and vegetables from Afghanistan, Iran and India as it was…