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In Honduras, USAID seeks to promote renewable energy and environmental conservation and strengthen marginalized groups' participation in local and national governance.

• 02/29/2024
• Kristin Kelly Jangraw

At an end-of-project event in March 2023, USAID’s Strengthening the Capacity of Indigenous Organizations in the Amazon (SCIOA) activity brought together the three Indigenous organizations it has been supporting in the Brazilian Amazon over the past four years.

• 06/22/2023
• Luana Luizy

O projeto da USAID de Capacitação de Organizações Indígenas na Amazônia (SCIOA) reuniu as três organizações indígenas da Amazônia brasileira que receberam apoio nos últimos quatro anos para celebrar o final do projeto em março de 2023.

• 06/22/2023
• Luana Luizy

En las zonas más remotas de esta región, los efectos del cambio climático incluyen lluvias menos previsibles, temperaturas más cálidas y cambios en la humedad, afectando gravemente a las 1.5 millones de personas pertenecientes a pueblos indígenas que viven dentro del bioma amazónico.

• 03/17/2023
• Wendy Putnam

Under the USAID and NASA–funded SERVIR-Amazonia activity, scientists are working to understand how deforestation, forest degradation, and road construction affect biodiversity and ecosystem resilience, as well as to develop data and tools to support residents in achieving sustainability in the region.

• 02/14/2023
• Wendy Putnam

Through the Scaling Up Renewable Energy program (SURE), USAID assisted the Fund for Non-Conventional Energy and Energy Efficiency (FENOGE) to promote gender equality and female empowerment in the Colombian energy sector. Their new Gender and Diversity Policy systematically integrates diversity, inclusion, and gender equality principles and aims to promote female participation in the energy sector, reduce female poverty in the energy sector, and reduce gender-based violence.

• 11/09/2022
• Scarlett Piantini Gil

Private sector engagement is one of the foundational principles of the USAID Climate Strategy. In the Amazon Region of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, the Amazon Regional Environment Program is working with the private sector to help confront climate change.

• 10/20/2022
• Lindsey Larsen

Indigenous women and girls are key actors in maintaining environmental sustainability – so why are they experiencing rising gender-based violence in connection with the environment and what can be done to stop it?

• 04/21/2022
• Jamie Wen-Besson, Dr. Anita Tzec

Geospatial services can benefit the people and the environment of the Amazon by supporting communities in monitoring their territories and addressing the various challenges they face.

• 06/14/2021
• Jennifer Twyman, Mariola Acosta, Marina Irigoyen

Geospatial services can benefit the people and the environment of the Amazon by supporting communities in monitoring their territories and addressing the various challenges they face, such as deforestation, illegal mining, climate change, and biodiversity loss.

• 05/13/2021
• SERVIR Global

When the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu were threatened by forest fires last September, firefighter Jessica Morón and her wildland firefighting team battled the flames to protect the historic sanctuary and its surrounding biodiversity.

• 05/06/2021
• USAID Publications

This post is written by Arely Valdivia, Communications Coordinator for CIAT Nicaragua, and was originally published on the CCAFS website. The women of the municipality of Namasigue, Honduras, have found empowerment in the Local Technical Agroclimatic Committee (LTAC) of the municipality of Choluteca.

• 09/03/2020
• Agrilinks

There is an increasing awareness of the importance of adapting agricultural systems and rural livelihoods to the challenges caused by climate change. This awareness has come hand in hand with the need to guarantee that both men and women — of different ages and ethnicities — can adapt equally to the effects of climate change. And while, in recent years, the importance of integrating gender issues in climate change initiatives in the agricultural sector has been increasingly acknowledged, it is not always obvious how to systemically and practically carry out gender integration.

• 03/31/2020
• Mariola Acosta, Lauren Sarruf Romero