Blog

SERVIR seeks to deliver near-real-time environmental data from Earth-orbiting satellites to data-scarce communities and scientists, and translate that data into tools, products, and services that can inform local decision-making.

• 12/14/2018
• USAID Water Team & Global Waters

Energy opportunities, and other value chain upgrades, could potentially impact women, both for good and for bad.

• 12/10/2018
• Lydia Mbevi

As part of a multi-year effort, USAID is collaborating with partners to support the design and implementation of practical, scientifically sound MRV systems.

• 12/04/2018
• Julianna White and Noel Gurwick

The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently released a report on how the addition of renewable energy could affect power system operations in the Philippines.

• 11/30/2018
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Social and behavior change (SBC), an approach long championed in global health and biodiversity conservation programming, may be a critical part of enhancing climate resilience.

• 11/19/2018
• Veronique Lee

In September 2018, the Sustainable CIS project organized a regional outreach workshop in Dakar, Senegal that brought together NMHSs, the private sector, academia, international organizations, and the donor community.

• 11/16/2018
• Olga Krylova

Colombia will host its first renewable energy auction in 2019 after more than a year of coordination with NREL and USAID.

• 11/07/2018
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory

CREL, which worked its magic in four ecosystems — forest protected areas, wetlands and ecologically critical areas of Bangladesh — is closing after six successful years.

• 10/23/2018
• Winrock International

The Global Resilience Partnership-funded 1-6-1 platform has built resilience in Uganda.

• 10/23/2018
• Frank Annor, Dr. Nick van de Giesen, Dr. John S. Selker, Patrick Kibaya

In the West Gonja and Sene districts of northern and central Ghana, respectively, deforestation caused by charcoal production is affecting sustainable livelihoods.

• 10/18/2018
• SERVIR

A program in Uganda's Karamoja region is helping communities resolve conflict over grazing lands even as more intense drought increases pressure on these lands.

• 08/10/2018
• Christine Chumbler

Climate risk management (CRM) ensures planning and programming is resilient to current and future climate impacts.

• 08/07/2018
• Climatelinks

The new global Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Project was one of the first activities to undergo USAID’s CRM process. The resulting extensive climate risk assessment highlighted the need to include strategies, interventions and assessments to build climate resilience both into program implementation and among beneficiaries in activity design.

• 08/07/2018
• Christine Chumbler, Elaine Gray

USAID took stock of climate risk management (CRM) in programming across all sectors to better understand the Agency’s experience with CRM to better support the practice.

• 07/19/2018
• Rebecca Nicodemus, Anna McGinn

“We know that Haiti is an extremely vulnerable country for the impacts of climate change,” says Jesse Leggoe, Acting Deputy Director in the Democracy, Human Rights and Governance Office, “Having Hurricane Matthew hit during our design process just re-emphasized that for everyone.”

• 07/11/2018
• Climatelinks