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USAID Climate Strategy Progress Update

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Climate and Development in Action

Highlights from USAID Climate Strategy Focus Groups with Implementing Partner Organizations

Through focus groups with partner organizations, USAID found that partners are aware of the Special Objective and are already implementing initiatives aligned with it, like reducing greenhouse gas emissions and prioritizing local and in-country procurement.
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Afghan technicians finish installing and testing a solar array.

How Improved Sanitation Can Mitigate Climate Change

When considering urban sources of greenhouse gas emissions, sanitation is not usually the first sector that comes to mind. Transportation, sure. Electricity generation, certainly. But not waste treatment. And yet, one study showed that up to half of the greenhouse gas emissions emitted from Kampala, Uganda could be traced to sanitation.
  • Christine Chumbler
A worker in Nairobi collects waste from a toilet developed by the startup Sanergy. The waste will later be converted to fertilizer and bio-gas.
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Article Collection: Adaptive Pathways for Resilient Infrastructure

This special issue seeks to identify gaps and highlight solutions related to the uptake and implementation of resilient infrastructure systems that work towards long-term sustainability in the face of disasters and climate change. This is a collection of evidence-based science, case-studies, and literature reviews.
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Governance of Infrastructure for Resilience

Drawing on case studies and stakeholder engagement with infrastructure decision makers and practitioners around the globe, this white paper explores the current key challenges and barriers to implementing governance of infrastructure for resilience, and the opportunities available for positive change.

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Yoremes Offering a Prayer to Nature

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Enlightening Children's Lives

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