Blog

From increasing local awareness and knowledge of air pollution, to tackling its sources by improving access to clean cooking and transportation, read how USAID is working with India, Thailand, Zambia, and Malawi to improve air quality.

• 09/19/2024
• Jane Clifford

Today, Zambia is experiencing the worst drought in 20 years. Drought-induced power outages, lasting up to 20 hours a day, impact the quality of care at health facilities.

• 08/13/2024
• Presley Musonda

Food insecurity, extreme weather events, and water scarcity – all of which are made worse by climate change – increase the risk that women, girls, and gender-diverse individuals will be put in situations where their health is compromised.

• 08/06/2024
• Bama Athreya

Young people from more than 400 universities across 77 countries participate in the YouthMappers network to identify and respond to the needs of their communities.

• 06/27/2024
• Adele Birkenes, Lindsey Larsen

USAID’s HEARTH initiative aims to advance both the sustainable conservation of threatened landscapes and the well-being and prosperity of communities.

• 04/11/2024
• Christina Seybolt, Sara Carlson, Rob Cohen

Hundreds of sector practitioners participated in the UN-Habitat’s 5th Congress of the Global Water Operators Partnership Alliance (GWOPA).

• 02/13/2024
• David Favazza, Sumbi M Shimwambwa

As USAID’s Land and Resource Governance Division reflects on the climate crisis, we know that it’s crucial to continue using innovative, evidence-based, and context-appropriate approaches to address land-related challenges within the context of climate change.

• 07/07/2023
• LandLinks

Integrating water supply, sanitation, and hygiene development efforts with work in livelihoods, watershed management, and biodiversity conservation results in improved outcomes for each sector. Brian App shares key lessons from projects in southern Africa.

• 06/05/2023
• Brian App

In the North Luangwa landscape of Zambia, the USAID Integrated Land and Resource Governance program is working with the Frankfurt Zoological Society to document the land rights of farmers like the community of Tindiza in Chikwa Chiefdom.

• 04/17/2023
• Climatelinks

USAID supports women leaders towards gender equality and women’s empowerment in land tenure, resource governance, and agroforestry value chains

• 06/30/2022
• Corinne Hart, Sarah Lowery

CEADIR’s final report contains summaries and links to seven years of assessments, analyses, tools, and training and technical assistance materials on planning, financing, and implementation of clean energy, sustainable landscapes (natural climate solutions), and climate adaptation.

• 10/19/2021
• Eric Hyman, Christine Chumbler

With USAID support, a local traditional chief and his administration are using land resource rights to empower women, protect forests and wildlife, and build a chiefdom for the future.

• 10/07/2021
• Chando Mapoma

Relative to other countries in the region, Zambia has an abundance of fertile land, water, and a favorable climate for agricultural production. Yet, despite these favorable conditions, crop yields are well below global averages and 80 percent of rural Zambians live in extreme poverty.

• 03/09/2017
• Stephen Brooks

Since its inception in 2005 the SERVIR partnership between USAID and NASA has helped countries monitor environmental change and forecast extreme storms, floods, droughts, fires, red tides.

• 05/04/2015
• SERVIR Global