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Announcement

Natural Resource Officer

The DDI Bureau is seeking to hire a Natural Resource Management Officer who will serve as a senior climate change and land advisor at the FSL-02 grade. This position is based in Washington, DC in the Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) Division within the Natural Environment (NE) Branch of the Center for Environment, Energy and Infrastructure (EEI) in the Bureau of Development, Democracy, and Innovation. 
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Gender Analysis for the USAID Climate Strategy 2022-2030

This gender analysis was conducted using a desk review of the available literature, consultations with gender and climate experts from across USAID, including through a gender analysis workshop hosted by DDI/LRG and DDI/GenDev. As part of the climate strategy development process, USAID/GenDev hosted a gender and climate listening session with experts from around the world. Their recommendations have been integrated into this analysis.
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Indigenous women farmers in Bataraza, southern Palawan, Philippines, plant upland rice in now-controlled slash-and-burn areas.
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Postcard from the Field: Women as Part of the Solution

Indigenous women farmers in Bataraza, southern Palawan, Philippines, plant upland rice in now-controlled slash-and-burn areas. Bataraza is a municipality nestled in the foothills of Mount Mantaligahan, 140 km south of Puerto Princesa City in Palawan, Philippines.
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Check Out the All New UrbanLinks

USAID’s Urban Team is pleased to announce the launch of the new and improved UrbanLinks website. As USAID’s central hub for information about urban topics and programs, UrbanLinks provides valuable tools, resources, and insights from across the Agency and from our partners.
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Announcement

CLEER Tool Webinar Recording Available Now

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.
  • John Venezia
María Elena Paredes, líder ashéninka de Ucayali, en Perú, discute sobre mapas en un taller con la científica Yunuen Reygadas (detrás de María Elena) y otras comuneras. Foto: Reynaldo Vela.
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Integrando ciencia y conocimientos ancestrales para conservar la Amazonía

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.
  • Wendy Putnam
A rainstorm moves over the Mara River, Serengeti, Tanzania.
Blog Post

To Improve Water Management, Start Local

Rivers are the world’s main source of clean drinking water, and their economic and environmental value are fundamental to the health of people and ecosystems. However, river basins face interrelated challenges — population growth, industrialization, urbanization, land use changes (including deforestation and land degradation), and changes in water quantity and quality.
  • Owen Scott, Fernanda Zermoglio
Attendees of the USAID GeoCenter Specialist Conference refer to a map of Egypt.
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Understanding Landscapes using Spatial Data

Landscapes and the complex, interlinked spatial units that comprise them are changing at an accelerating rate. Land use change, especially deforestation and forest degradation, are among the main contributors to global greenhouse emissions.
  • Ioana Bouvier, Silvia Petrova, Lovasoalalaina Parson