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Gender equality and women’s empowerment – particularly when it comes to ensuring that women and men have equal opportunities in accessing, benefiting from and participating in environmental decision-making – are essential for effective conservation and sustainable development.   

• 03/22/2018
• Lorena Aguilar, Corinne Hart

The asymmetry between men’s and women’s participation in forestry decision-making is often rooted in two inter-related issues. First, forestry institutions and forest resources are generally male-dominated and second, village-level decision-making takes place in the public sphere. Women are traditionally associated with the private sphere of home and family life.

• 03/08/2018
• Christi Hang

To help bolster both community and ecological resilience, USAID’s Hariyo Ban (Green Forests) program was established in 2011 to work in two biodiverse landscapes in Nepal: Terai Arc and Chitwan-Annapuran.

• 03/05/2018
• Climatelinks

We asked Climatelinks community members to share their PPP-related research, tools, blogs, knowledge portals and other resources, which you can find here!

• 02/28/2018
• Joyce-Lynn Njinga, Katherine Cunningham

With collaboration between Winrock, the Government of Vietnam and the private sector, Vietnam’s payments for forest environmental services has the potential to be a model for other countries struggling to conserve forest areas — and a way to help people live more secure and prosperous lives.

• 02/28/2018
• Lauren Keller, Nga Dang

USAID is building mutually beneficial partnerships with private sector actors that leverage their respective expertise, assets, technologies, networks and resources to achieve greater development impact.

• 02/26/2018
• Climatelinks

A USAID/Colombia program that concluded in 2017 saved manufacturing facilities hundreds of thousands of dollars and thousands of tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to an assessment of the environmental benefits and cost savings associated with the project’s energy efficiency interventions.

• 02/08/2018
• Derina Man, John Venezia, Kevin Kurkul

Climatelinks is focusing on public private partnerships (PPPs) this month and we would like to hear from you!

• 02/08/2018
• Climatelinks

This month Climatelinks focused on the connections and complexities between climate change and conflict, environmental peacebuilding and conflict prevention, and effective environmental management and governance in fragile, vulnerable, and conflict-affected communities and regions.

• 01/31/2018
• Joyce-Lynn Njinga, Katherine Cunningham

Government of Bangladesh inventory experts recently participated in USAID-organized focus group discussions to share practical knowledge and skills, including how to use the US EPA Template Workbook.

• 01/31/2018
• Joshua Forgotson

Fortunately, there are proven ways to engage communities and bring them on board with renewable energy. A case in point is the USAID ProParque project in Honduras and its experience introducing small hydropower to highland communities.

• 01/11/2018
• Gwen Andersen, Mily Cortés-Posas

Do you have online resources, tools, videos, blogs or events you would like to share with the Climatelinks community that explore these questions?

• 01/09/2018
• Isabela Barriga

A new webinar is now available providing an overview and update on the CLEER Tool, a web-based platform for calculating and tracking GHG emission reductions, as well as energy generated or saved, from a wide range of clean energy actions.

• 12/06/2017
• John Venezia

This month Climatelinks focused on policies, programs, finance facilities and partnerships contributing to the rapid scale-up up clean energy. Here are the many reports, case studies, blogs, tools, websites, videos and webinars that the Climatelinks community shared with us on the topic.

• 11/30/2017
• Joyce-Lynn Njinga, Katherine Cunningham

Distributed solar, the use of small-scale solar distributed over a local area, can be a powerful tool to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector.

• 11/28/2017
• Alexandra Aznar