Globally, indigenous peoples and local community organisations are receiving less than one percent of all climate funding, while African community conservation organisations are receiving approximately only five to ten percent of private philanthropic funding invested in Africa. The report by Maliasili, a global organisation that supports grassroots African conservation organisations …
Research shows that paying attention to gender matters not only for the equity of climate change adaptation programs but also for their efficiency and effectiveness. Many organizations working to increase resilience to climate change with local communities also recognize the importance of gender yet the degree to which gender is …
Paralleling the increasing disparities in income and wealth worldwide since the 1980s, cities in developing countries have witnessed the emergence of a growing divergence of lifestyles, particularly within the middle classes, reinforced by the widening gap between the quality of public and private educational and health care institutions, spatial segregation, …
Reflecting on the voices of people living in difficult and unjust circumstances, government stakeholders and development practitioners from around the globe, the authors propose that conducting a truly participatory, multi-stakeholder and cross-scalar contextual analysis that considers a wide range of hazards, as well as people’s capacities and aspirations, should become …
A fire that broke out at a chemical factory in Lengshuijiang, Central China's Hunan Province, on Saturday night may have put the local environment in danger, environmentalists said. Volunteers from Green Hunan, a Chinese environmental protection NGO, posted pictures on their official WeChat account of wastewater from firefighting being discharged …
Evidence from Water.org’s existing programs demonstrates that finance for sanitation is a significant opportunity for the Government of India, donors, financial institutions, and clients. Sanitation lending works and also leverages funding to achieve greater reach than traditional grant based models. By directly integrating financial institutions as part of the strategy …
Negotiations towards a new climate deal to be agreed at the UN climate conference in Paris in December have included voluntary climate targets by countries around the world in the form of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs). A total of 146 countries, representing almost 87 per cent of global greenhouse …
This paper attempts to identify a strategy for improving collaboration between stakeholders working in Dhaka city to improve climate change resilience of the urban water and sanitation (WATSAN) sector, with a focus on the urban poor. The findings are derived from reviewing existing literature and consultations with 32 key informants …
China may set up awards to honor individuals and non-governmental organizations for their efforts in helping reduce global poverty, a government think tank official said. The country's ultimate award for poverty reduction, the China Poverty Eradication Award, could include honors to people or bodies helping reduce global poverty, said Kang …
From Ebola to the bombing of Gaza, civil society was the first responder to humanitarian emergencies during the last year, but faces dire threats and a funding crisis around the world, says a new report. During the last year civil society was everywhere, doing great work often at the frontline …
This study analyses the climate change discourses and political dynamics in south-western Burkina Faso from three empirical entry points: the production of the National Adaptation Programmes of Action; climate change discourses in the Ioba province; and the role of the public media. Climate change is not a popular discourse in …
A new report finds that civil society organisations in Africa struggle to get the support they need to play an effective role in natural resource management and conservation. Natural resource governance and biodiversity conservation in Africa is facing a period of crisis as a result of surging land acquisition, militarised …
The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forests under the Chairmanship of Shri Ashwani Kumar had decided to take up the issue of pollution levels of some of the Tier-II cities of the country. In that series, the Committee undertook its study visit to Ludhiana and …
The World Bank Group has done little to prevent or dissuade governments from intimidating critics of the projects it funds, or monitor for reprisals, Human Rights Watch said in a report. The report, “At Your Own Risk: Reprisals against Critics of World Bank Group Projects,” details how governments and powerful …
Nearly 2.9 billion people still use polluting fuels like wood and coal to cook and heat their homes, at a huge cost to the society, in terms of health, environmental and economic costs, estimated at over US$123 billion every year according to this World Bank report. It provides a comprehensive …
THE environment ministry yesterday released a draft regulation, which allows nongovernmental groups to participate in investigations of major pollution cases. According to the draft, unveiled to solicit public opinion, environmental protection volunteers and representatives of social organizations could be appointed as guest supervisors to keep an eye on the performance …
The West Papuan provincial administration is preparing a regional bylaw to designate West Papua a conservation province, an official said Monday. “The bylaw is being worked out before being submitted to the West Papua Legislative Council for deliberation,” West Papua administration secretary Nataniel Mandacan said as quoted by Antara news …
European, Turkish and Chinese recyclers are set to benefit from strict new EU rules on breaking up old ships, but the practice of dismantling them on beaches in South Asia at great human and environmental cost will still be hard to stop. Of 1,026 ocean-going ships recycled in 2014, 641 …
Sumbawanga — MPENJE Village in Kalambo District, Rukwa Region has recorded zero maternal deaths for the past three years, thanks to the efforts of Africare, a non-governmental organization which focuses on reducing maternal deaths and child mortalities among rural communities. In an effort to address persistent maternal, newborn and child …
Scores of mining contracts in Democratic Republic of Congo have not been made fully public more than six months after it joined a global resource transparency body, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) said in a report on Monday. U.S. democracy watchdog the Carter Center and three Congolese NGOs identified 62 contractual documents …
The objective of the Guidelines is to institutionalize the role of NGOs in disaster management and to strengthen the quality, synergy and accountability of NGO systems in India. These Guidelines will be primarily utilized by administrators and NGO stakeholders in disaster management.
