Africa
Issue 49 - Month 2 - Year 2012
UNEP to implement EUR 2.3 million project rehabilitating the water towers of Kenya
A new three-year intervention to rehabilitate the Northern Mau Forest at the cost of EUR 2.3 million is set...
The global focus on the threats posed by climate change has drawn attention to the fact that water will be the medium through which many of its impacts will be felt. In addition to the direct impacts of damaging floods and interruptions to water supply due to drought, a particular concern in many regions is the threat to food security, driven by changing rainfall patterns and increased aridity...
The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) is one of several development finance institutions in South and Southern Africa. Its purpose is to accelerate sustainable socio-economic development by funding physical, social and economic infrastructure. DBSA’s goal is to improve the quality of life of the people of the region.
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The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat is pleased to announce the launch of a radio club for Africa aimed at raising awareness about the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) on the continent.
Radio journalists and radio stations in Africa are now invited to join the CDM Radio Club for Africa. Radio journalists will be given the...
The Nairobi based Utafiti Centre for Research and Technology will hold a training workshop for technical, administrative and political officers in municipal and government agencies on 'Challenges in Water Provisioning in the Global South'. The training will be conducted by lecturers from Nairobi, Kenyatta and Makerere Universities, and will be held from 26th to 30th March, 2012 in Nairobi....
MRD is pleased to announce the publication of a Supplement Issue containing keynote papers, a synthesis paper, and policy papers that emerged from the 2010 “Global Change and the World’s Mountains” conference, which took place in Perth, Scotland, from 26–30 September. The peer-reviewed keynote papers address issues ranging from mountains as a global common good to mountain communities’...
Le Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), la Stratégie internationale de l’ONU pour la prévention des catastrophes (ISDR) et ENDATiers Monde appellent les candidatures de jeunes chercheurs, de professionnels, de décideurs politiques, et autres de l’Afrique qui travaillent dans le domaine des changements climatiques et de la prévention des catastrophes, à participer à un atelier d’écriture...
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This five-day course explores the challenges of employment creation in the Middle East and North Africa. It examines both demand and supply-side factors and introduces participants to practical policy prescriptions gathered from other country experiences from...
In preparation for its twelfth special session of the Governing Council/ Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GC/GMEF) to be held from 20th to 22nd February 2012 in Nairobi, UNEP is organizing the thirteenth Global Major Groups and Stakeholders Forum (GMGSF-13) from 18th -19th February 2012 in Nairobi.
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Grand Challenges Canada has announced a Request for proposals for investigators in low and middle income countries who are within 10 years after their latest degree (Young innovators) .
With this proposal, Grand Challenges Canada is seeking emerging innovators (within 10 years of graduation from a Masters level or PhD) from developing countries. We are looking for bold ideas with big...
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