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A GWI consultation with local communities in Kankan, eastern Guinea, in July 2014 looked at how to secure agricultural land tenure for those affected by the proposed Fomi dam (Photo: GWI West Africa)
Le barrage de Fomi peut catalyser la réforme foncière en Guinée
… avec le soutien du programme Afrique de l'Ouest de la Global Water Initiative (GWI), se concentrera sur les réformes législatives et … Water … Global Water Initiative – Afrique de l'Ouest …
News, 03 March 2015
Fishing boats
Delivering sustainable fisheries through fiscal incentives
… improve the sustainability of fisheries, for example  by discouraging water polluting activities.  It is important to make sure that fiscal … instruments do not have a negative effect on fishing communities in general and vulnerable groups in particular, such as women, youth or … distributive impacts at any stage of fiscal reform. Taking these publications as a starting point, we are currently conducting diagnostic …
Project, 31 July 2019
Angola aims to achieve its mitigation goals through the promotion of renewable energy, stabilisation of agricultural emissions, carbon sequestration from the forestry sector and other activities (Photo: jbdodane, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Climate finance is vital to secure a future worth having
Insight, 09 December 2015
Agricultural biodiversity in a Peruvian market. Photo: Bioversity International/A. Camacho
Building resilient food systems
… control over productive resources — including land and territories, water, seeds and livestock breeds, biodiversity-rich landscapes and … systems apply to the production of food, energy, materials and clean water, and are integrated with systems of waste management. Key findings …
Project, 14 August 2013
Dharavi slum, Mumbai, India (Photo: Akshay Mahajan, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Data that supports local development
… social (life expectancy at birth, infant mortality, provision for water and sanitation) or environmental (greenhouse gas emissions per … – for instance the 880 million urban dwellers recorded as without water piped to their premises in 2015 should be a spur to more … connecting pipes to their homes to bring regular, good quality water supplies, connections to sewers and electricity, and regular …
Insight, 22 September 2016
Women sit next to piles of vegetables like onions, tomatoes, garlic.
Five pathways to deliver rapid support for a green and resilient COVID-19 recovery in the LDCs
Insight, 30 September 2021
A crocodile and three ducks
Q&A: Fulufhelo Mukhadi on mainstreaming biodiversity in South Africa
… (EPWP). Typically they include programmes such as Working for Water, Working For Land, Working for Wildlife, Working for Coast, … During the same period the flagship programme alone, Working for Water , managed to treat over 821,198 hectares of invasive alien plants. … of eThekwini was spending a lot of money on chemicals to clean the water in a dam which supplied the local town. We are engaging with water …
Article, 18 November 2014
Policymakers at a UN meeting in New York discuss how to end the legal 'no man's land' on 50 per cent of the Earth's surface (Photo by IISD/Francis Dejon)
Governing the ungoverned 50% of the planet
… Last year, the United Nations general assembly adopted a resolution stressing "the need for the … resources and other organisms both on seabed and throughout the water column should be regarded as common heritage of mankind."   … benefits should be shared equitably. They are asking the Secretary General of the UN to establish "a special voluntary trust fund for the …
Insight, 11 April 2016
A herder with his livestock in Isiolo County, Kenya (Photo: Dorine Odongo/ILRI, Creative Commons via Flickr)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Kenya
Project, 14 June 2018
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PLA 61: Tales of shit: Community-Led Total Sanitation in Africa
… disease and is a major killer. Lack of sanitation also impacts on general well-being, human dignity and personal freedom. Despite this, … scaling up CLTS in Africa. The resources section highlights key publications, websites and online communities for CLTS practitioners. … sanitation Mariama Munia Zombo From amazzi to amazi: it’s not a water problem Terry A. Wolfer and Robin W. Kloot Breaking shit taboos: …
Article, 01 November 2010