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Major Water Disputes Are Often Beyond War and Peace
Early this June, the Israeli government cut off drinking water to people living in the Salfit region of the West Bank and three villages east of Nablus. The consequences have been dire. Thousands of...
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Masculinity Under the Microscope: Better Accounting for Men in Climate...
“Before the famine my life was better. I was a man in my own country,” Abdi Abdullahi Hussein, a Somali refugee living in Kenya, tells The Climate Reality Project. “When you have livestock and a farm...
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A Survey of the “War on Wildlife”: How Conflict Affects Conservation
Over the last 60 years, more than two-thirds of the world’s remaining biodiversity hotspots have experienced armed conflict. The effects have been myriad, from destruction as a result of military...
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Risk, But Also Opportunity in Climate Fragility and Terror Link
In a recent article for New Security Beat, Colin Walch made the case that the abandonment of some communities in Mali to deal with climate change on their own has created “fertile ground” for jihadist...
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Social Justice or Forest Conservation? Cross-Regional Comparisons Reveal a...
The original version of this article appeared on the Oxford University Press’s Academic Insights for the Thinking World.The present understanding of the relationship between environmental conservation...
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Reaching the Farthest Behind: Maternal Health Innovations at the Facility Level
“Innovation happens when there are pioneers that stick with it,” said Monica Kerrigan, vice president of innovations at Jhpiego. “How can we—each one of us—be part of the change process?” Innovations...
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How Family Planning Can Help Save Cheetahs
This article by Sophie Edwards originally appeared on Devex.Conservationists and development practitioners may not have always seen eye to eye, but a new partnership between a cheetah conservation...
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Reaching for Resilience in East Africa
“Resilience isn’t an outcome, it is a process—and capacity-building is crucial,” said Chelsea Keyser, Deputy Chief of Party for USAID’s PREPARED program, during a recent event at the Wilson Center...
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“The River Belongs to the People”: Building Cooperation in the Mara River Basin
This profile and photo essay by Bobby Neptune are adapted from an article published by the Sustainable Water Partnership.Water engineer Gordon Mumbo of USAID’s Sustainable Water Partnership grew up in...
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Gordon Mumbo on Water and Livelihoods in the Mara River Basin
This article is part of ECSP’s Water Security for a Resilient World series, a partnership with USAID’s Sustainable Water Partnership and Winrock International to share stories about global water...
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A Conversation with Rodolfo Camacho on Using Data for Water Security
While there are many uses for global data sets and innovative data analysis technologies, the most important thing, Rodolfo Camacho said in this week’s Water Stories podcast, is not analyzing the data....
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Sexuality Education Begins to Take Root in Africa
In Kenya, primary and secondary school students take courses called Life Skills Education. So do students in Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, and Swaziland. South Sudan adds “peace-building” to the subject...
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The Great Disruptor: COVID-19 Threatens Essential Health Services for Women...
“The world is at risk of losing millions of women and children due to reductions in coverage of essential services, reversing hard-earned progress towards the SDGs [Sustainable Development Goals] to...
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Why Securing Youth Land Rights Matter for Agriculture-Led Growth in Africa
Africa’s “youth bulge” represents both an enormous challenge and a tantalizing opportunity for the continent. With over 60 percent of Africans under the age of 35, governments are under increasing...
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Vaccines, Family Planning, and Freedom from Violence: Achieving Equity for...
“From birth, from almost from cradle to grave, girls have been seen as some sort of baggage,” said Shamsa Suleiman, Project Management Specialist for Gender and Youth at the U.S. Agency for...
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