Environmental health encompasses everything about our lives as human beings, from the air we breath to the water we drink, and from the food we eat to the cleanliness of our surroundings. It is not just the domain of government agencies rather it is the responsibility of every individual person and...
These are the decisions of the 8th Board meeting of the LoCAL Facility that brought together the various LDC SIDS and African countries to exchange their experiences and push the LoCAL agenda in its...
Grâce à son engagement profond avec les autorités locales dans les PMA, l'UNCDF a été directement témoin des premiers impacts du changement climatique au niveau local sur le développement économique...
Thanks to its deep engagement with local authorities across LDCs, UNCDF directly witnessed the early impacts of climate change at the local level on local economic development, across sectors. The...
En deuxième phase d’expansion mondiale, LoCAL continue à aller de l’avant, menant une série d’actions au niveau international et dans plus de 20 pays, afin de réaliser la vision projetée par les...
In 2020, LoCAL was engaged with 304 local governments in 12 countries, representing a population of over 11.5 million. Another 13 countries have expressed interest in deploying the mechanism –...
This 2019 annual report summarizes LoCAL activities and results across Africa and Asia and the Pacific, and at the global level, drawing on a range of experiences and good practices in LoCAL design...
GERIS participants under the 'Shared citizenship' banner, will visit South Africa and discuss and learn about the issue of migration and the positive experience of coexistence and inclusion.
The last of our series of Capacity building workshops will be the one dedicated to storytelling techniques. The purpose of this workshop is to encourage community organisations to work more...
by Kimberly Winston SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina— The country responsible for the term “ethnic cleansing” can show off a respectable drop in religiously motivated hate crimes over the last decade — at least on paper. According to the Interreligious Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina — a...
The project's main activities are the exchange visits to the six project countries as well as three series of virtual conversations and four capacity-building workshops. To get a better idea of what we are doing please visit the linked activity you want to find out more about: Virtual Conversation...
A group of 15 small-scale farmers, comprising 11 women and four men, in the Baca-Baca community in Mafuane, Namaacha district of Mozambique, are the first to benefit from the Climate Smart agriculture project launched by the Centre for Coordination of Agriculture Research and Development for...
Description Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) refers to efforts to integrate social protection, disaster risk management (DRM) and climate change adaptation (CCA), with the main objective of making programmes shock responsive, as well as building up the resilience of poor and vulnerable households...
Read in this eighth edition of the EU GCCA+ Review of Climate Issues "What is the future for the Sahel?" with articles on nature-based solutions, integrated climate action, case studies, stories and...
"Why are NDCs so important?" : EU GCCA+ Review of climate issue N°7 Read in this seventh edition , articles on the importance of NDCs , case studies on programmes in Namibia and Nigeria, best...
Healthy rivers are vital to human existence, and in few places does that truth hold more gravity than in Myanmar, where 34 million people live in the basin of the Ayeyarwady River. The Ayeyarwady feeds the nation with fish, irrigates its fertile land, provides transport and drinking water to...
"The flow of climate finance" : EU GCCA+ Review of Climate Issues no.6 It seems calamitous that at precisely the moment when the need to scale up climate finance is most urgent, the public finance...
The focus is already shifting to the ‘next 1.31 billion’ , today’s 5-15 years olds who by 2030 will join the global work force. For these kids, climate change education can foster the appetite for...
Because African growth is incontrovertible, new partnerships are needed to harness and scale new technologies and approaches to leverage know-how and finance while building new skill sets, to ensure...
Rapid industrialization has put successful climate action beyond the capacity of the 36 developed countries signing the Kyoto Protocol. In 2014 they contributed less than 16% of total global GHG...
From Paris to Santiago, where do we stand? The Paris Agreement sets out a path with a clear final destination. Yet, if we know where we want to go, do we know what it takes to get there? Read in this...
The first edition of the ‘GCCA+ Review of Climate Issues’ covers a monothematic issue concerning one of the most visible problems caused by climate change – extreme weather events. Each edition of...
The first round of the Virtual Conversation Series is an online space where GERIS network members met for the first time. The online meetings marked the formal commencement of the GERIS project for...