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Request for Expressions of Interest: Environmental and Social Impact Assessment to Inform the Potential Designation of Wonegizi and Wologizi as Protected or Conserved Areas (PCAs)

Jul 21, 2026 | Gret

Gret has received a financing from Agence Française de Développement (“AFD”), and intends to use part of the funds thereof for payments under the following…

Palestine: Humanitarian Mine Action Technical Advisor

Jul 21, 2026 | Danish Refugee Council

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a Leading protection agency pursuing our mandate to protect and promote durable solutions to displacement-affected populations based on humanitarian…

Rwanda: Forest Landscape Restoration Program Design Coordinator (Fixed-Term)

Jul 21, 2026 | One Acre Fund

Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund equips 5.5 million smallholder farmers to make their farms more productive. Across nine countries that together are home to…

WASH in Emergencies Specialist - Roster Recruitment

Jul 21, 2026 | Plan International

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. Plan believes in the power and potential of…

Chad/Sudan: Consultancy - Comparative Feasibility Study of Household Cooking Fuel and Cooking Modalities Options in Sudan and Chad

Jul 21, 2026 | Solidarités International

Solidarités International (SI) is a French humanitarian organization providing lifesaving assistance to populations affected by armed conflict, natural disasters, and epidemics for more than 40…

Afghanistan: Deputy Area Director - Program (M/F) - Herat

Jul 21, 2026 | Solidarités International

Solidarités International is an international humanitarian aid association which, since more than 40 years, has been providing assistance to populations affected by armed conflicts and…

Consultancy for Drafting a Climate & Environment Education Curriculum

Jul 21, 2026 | Terre des hommes

Terre des hommes (Tdh) teams increasingly face the direct and indirect impacts of climate change and environmental degradation in their humanitarian and development work on…

Sierra Leone: Programme Technical Lead - Climate Resilience & Economic Empowerment

Jul 21, 2026 | Trócaire

Trócaire is an International NGO that works with local partners in the world’s most at-risk communities and with people in Ireland to tackle the underlying…

Somalia: Learning and Adaptive Management Consultancy for Advancing Adaptation through Resilient Mobility and Natural Capital (AARAN) Project

Jul 21, 2026 | Norwegian Refugee Council

Building Resilient Communities in Somalia (BRCiS) is a Consortium of national and international organizations – Action Against Hunger (ACF), Concern Worldwide (Concern), GREDO, the International…

Hydrodiplomacy: A Tool for Climate and Environmental Resilience, Peace and Security [Deadline: September 7, 2026]

Jul 21, 2026 | Cyprus Security and Defence Academy and Cyprus Institute

The Cyprus Security and Defence Academy and the Cyprus Institute in cooperation with the University of Balamand and its Climate Diplomacy & Sustainable Peace Hub,…

Liberia: Cocoa Rush Overruns Liberian County Once 99 Percent Forested

Jul 19, 2026
WOODCENTRAL

Grand Gedeh has lost more forest in a single year than any Liberian county on record since 2002, with an unpublished government count putting migrant…

Liberia: Something Strange Is Happening in Liberia

Jul 19, 2026 | Ashoka Mukpo and Juan Maza
Mongabay

Liberia is losing its rainforest at an alarming rate. Satellite data reveals rapid deforestation across one of West Africa’s last remaining intact rainforests, driven largely…

Climate Change: The Impossible Politics of Climate Security

Jul 19, 2026 | Hammad Sarfraz
Express Tribune

Ashok Swain’s Climate Security is not a comfortable book, nor does it pretend to be. At a time when climate anxiety is increasingly wrapped in…

DRC: Congo Begins First-Ever Lithium Exports to China, Unlocking the World’s Largest Undeveloped Hard-Rock Reserves

Jul 18, 2026 | Awogbemila Temitope
Business Insider

A new report has revealed that China's mining company, Zijin has started exporting lithium concentrate from its Manono project in the Democratic Republic of Congo.…

Liberia: Liberia’s Landmark Land Rights Law Risks Falling Short

Jul 17, 2026 | Lincoln G. Peters
New Dawn

Eight years after Liberia enacted the Land Rights Act of 2018,  government officials, lawmakers, civil society organizations, and development partners have warned that the initiative…

Liberia: ‘Chasing Deforestation’ in Liberia: Behind the Scenes with Mongabay

Jul 17, 2026 | Ashoka Mukpo
Mongabay

Mongabay’s investigation into deforestation in Liberia started with a tip from a source last year.

Bridging the Conflict Gap in Climate Action and Finance

Jul 16, 2026 | ODI Global

Many of the world’s most climate-vulnerable people live in place affected by armed conflict, violence, and fragility. Yet fragile and conflict-affected countries receive just 10%…

The Abyei Dispute: Why South Sudan Is on the Right Side of History

Jul 16, 2026 | Amaju Ubur Yalamoi Ayani

First and foremost, the unresolved status of the Abyei Area stands as a stark indictment of failed diplomatic processes and an enduring obstacle to lasting…

South Sudan’s Oil Is Flowing, but Who Really Gets Paid?

Jul 16, 2026 | Warille B. Warille

A recent partial settlement between the Government of South Sudan and commodities trader BB Energy has eased restrictions imposed by the London High Court, which…

Food Security: UN Food Agency Says Conflict Is Pushing Healthy Diets beyond Reach Worldwide

Jul 16, 2026 | Namo Abdulla
Rudaw

A healthy diet is slipping beyond reach for a growing number of people around the world as conflict drives up the cost of fuel, fertilizer…

Afghanistan: Taliban Administration Discusses Climate Projects with UN Officials

Jul 16, 2026
Atlas Press

The Taliban Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, and Livestock has announced that Mawlawi Attaullah Omari, acting head of the ministry, met with the head of the…

China/Myanmar/Thailand: Northern River Pollution Prompts Diplomatic Push

Jul 16, 2026 | Aekarach Sattaburuth
Bangkok Post

The opposition People's Party (PP) on Wednesday urged the government to lead efforts to tackle river pollution in northern Thailand, saying evidence suggests contamination may…

Liberia: Why Are Forests Vanishing in Southeastern Liberia? [Video]

Jul 16, 2026
Mongabay

In the past century, most of West Africa’s Upper Guinean rainforest has been lost to commercial agriculture, infrastructure development and logging. More than half of…

De la presencia al poder

Jul 16, 2026 | Maryruth Belsey Priebe
Environmental Peacebuilding Association

De la presencia al poder No se trata de si las mujeres están en la sala, sino de si las mujeres deciden Almuerzo de Liderazgo de Mujeres,…

From Presence to Power

Jul 16, 2026 | Maryruth Belsey Priebe
Environmental Peacebuilding Association

From Presence to Power Not whether women are in the room, but whether women decide Women's Leadership Lunch, June 18, 2026, Ottawa · Quotes are drawn from…

Ethics of Care in Environmental Peacebuilding — a Draft to Build on Together

Jul 16, 2026 | EnPAx Gender Interest Group
Environmental Peacebuilding Association

When we gathered in Ottawa, we held a workshop on the ethics of care in environmental peacebuilding. The conversation was rich, but we have tried…

Minerals at the Negotiating Table: Resource Politics and Peace in Eastern DRC

Jul 15, 2026 | Julian Neef

The United States brokered a strategic partnership deal with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in December 2025, co-signing a DRC–Rwanda peace agreement on the…

Afghanistan: Taliban Ministry and UNOPS Launch Pilot Water Management Projects in Kabul

Jul 15, 2026
Atlas Press

The Taliban’s Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, and Livestock has announced that, in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), 20 pilot check…

Myanmar: Community Conservation under Fire: Interview with Myanmar’s Clean Mountains Founder

Jul 15, 2026
Mongabay

Myanmar experienced a military coup in February 2021. In the aftermath, widespread repression by the military regime fueled the emergence of armed resistance movements across…

South Sudan/Uganda: SSPDF, UPDF Clash over Kajo-Keji Border Dispute

Jul 15, 2026
Radio Tamazuj

Clashes erupted between the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces (SSPDF) and the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) on Tuesday in the border area of Nandejo…