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Call for Applications: 2026 EnPAx Conference Fellows

Oct 27, 2025
Environmental Peacebuilding Association

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) is seeking applicants for its Conference Fellows Program. The Conference Fellows Program provides capacity development for emerging professionals alongside financial support…

Sri Lanka: Building Resilience, One Snack at a Time: The Story of Jayasumani Sivajothi

Oct 23, 2025 | UN Women Asia and the Pacific
UN Women Asia and the Pacific

In Karaithivu, a coastal community in Sri Lanka’s Ampara District, the sea once brought devastation to the life of Jayasumani Sivajothi. The 2004 tsunami swept…

Liberia: UN Women, Rural Women Leaders Rally in Harper - Push for Climate Action, Peace, and Economic Empowerment

Oct 21, 2025 | Peter P. Toe, Jr.
Front Page Africa

Harper, Maryland County — In a country where women's voices are often overshadowed, UN Women continues to stand out as one of Liberia's strongest allies…

Somalia: Land Grabbing Crisis Deepens in Mogadishu as Women and Children Bear the Brunt

Oct 21, 2025 | Dahir Alasow
Suna Times

A new wave of forced evictions and illegal land grabbing is devastating communities across Mogadishu, displacing thousands of residents — many of them women and…

Colombia: Putumayo’s Women Guardians Defend Land and Culture Amid Colombia’s Deforestation

Oct 15, 2025 | Natalia Arbelaez
Mongabay

In Colombia southwest, Kamëntšá and Inga Indigenous women are at the forefront of the struggle to defend their territory, which provides water to the rest…

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding

Oct 14, 2025
Environmental Peacebuilding Association and the University of Ottawa

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association® (EnPAx®) and the University of Ottawa are pleased to announce the call for abstracts for the Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding.…

Chad: Responsable de l’Environnement

Oct 14, 2025 | INTERSOS

INTERSOS est une Organisation Humanitaire Non Gouvernementale, à but non lucratif, qui a l’objectif d’assister les victimes de désastres naturels et de conflits armés. INTERSOS…

Kenya: Turkana’s Trailblazers: The Women Redefining Leadership on Oil-Rich Land

Oct 14, 2025 | Moraa Obiria
Daily Nation

What you need to know:  Two Turkana women, Veronica Natesiro and Jane Atabo, are breaking barriers by leading their community’s land governance in Lokichar.Through the Community…

Explainer: Why Gender Matters in Disaster Risk Reduction

Oct 13, 2025 | UN Women Europe and Central Asia
UN Women

Disasters are happening more often, costing more, and affecting more lives than ever before. Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is not just reacting when a crisis…

Colombia: IOM and EU Launch Initiative to Strengthen Inclusive Disaster Preparedness in Latin America

Oct 13, 2025
International Organization for Migration

Bogotá, Colombia, 13 October 2025 – As climate-related disasters intensify across Latin America, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the European Union have launched Prepárate+,…

New Online Course: Conflict Sensitivity in Conservation

Oct 11, 2025
PeaceNexus Foundation, EnPAx, African Wildlife Foundation, Conservation International, Environmental Law Institute, International Institute for Sustainable Development, IUCN, CEESP, and WWF

Conservation doesn’t happen in isolation. In fact, conserving nature involves making decisions about who accesses and uses natural resources – decisions that can be particularly…

South Sudan: Terms of Reference for Trainers & Experts in Livelihoods, Economic Empowerment, and Entrepreneurship

Oct 10, 2025 | STOOS Consulting

STOOS Consulting is recruiting South Sudan-based trainers and facilitators to deliver practical, context-appropriate training and coaching for women, youth, farmers, VSLAs, and MSMEs, with a focus on remote/rural access and fragile settings.

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Sudan: Terms of Reference for Trainers & Experts in Livelihoods, Economic Empowerment, and Entrepreneurship

Oct 10, 2025 | STOOS Consulting

STOOS Consulting seeks Sudan-based trainers and experts to deliver TVET, entrepreneurship, agriculture/livestock, VSLA, financial literacy, and market systems training that strengthens resilience and self-reliance for women, youth, farmers, and micro-enterprises.

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Nepal: Rural Women Reshaping Agriculture in Nepal

Oct 10, 2025 | UN Women Asia and the Pacific
UN Women Asia and the Pacific

To mark International Day of Rural Women 2025, we celebrate their leadership, resilience and work towards a world where they are the architects and beneficiaries…

Iraq: Terms of Reference for Trainers & Experts in Livelihoods, Economic Empowerment, and Entrepreneurship

Oct 10, 2025 | STOOS Consulting

STOOS Consulting seeks Iraq-based trainers and technical experts to deliver hands-on, market-relevant training and coaching for women, youth, farmers, small businesses, VSLA groups, and TVET learners. Assignments will be delivered in…

Mexico: Women in Mexico Step Up to Protect Ancient Aztec Farms and Save a Vanishing Ecosystem

Oct 8, 2025 | Teresa De Miguel
AP News

Jasmín Ordóñez looks out from a wooden boat at the water as she crosses a narrow channel that connects a labyrinth of chinampas, island farms…

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: Environmental Peacebuilding Awards (Deadline: 30 November 2025)

Oct 8, 2025 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

To honor outstanding contributions to environmental peacebuilding, the Environmental Peacebuilding Association is pleased to present awards to leaders, practitioners, and researchers from our community.The Environmental…

Ethiopia: Country Director

Oct 3, 2025 | ActionAid Ethiopia
Relief Web

ABOUT ACTIONAID

ActionAid Ethiopia (AAE) is a Gender justice and poverty eradication organization. In Ethiopia, ActionAid works to challenge gender inequalities and the structural causes of…

DRC: Beans that Break the Cycle: Food, Freedom and Female Power in DRC

Oct 3, 2025 | Bola Amoke Awotide, Julie Ntawinja, Yohane Chideya, Hosny Dunia, Richard Kataliko, Lucky Kalisya, and Jean Claude Rubyogo
Alliance Biodiversity & CIAT

In eastern DRC, women are reclaiming land through the B4WE project, using biofortified beans to fight malnutrition, gain economic independence, and foster peace. Farming is…

Sri Lanka: Landmark UN Study Links Climate Change, Gender, and Security Risks in Sri Lanka

Oct 2, 2025 | UNDP
Newswire

The United Nations launched a landmark study on how climate change, gender and security in Sri Lanka are interconnected. Commissioned by the Joint UN Development…

Colombia: Victims of Colombian Conflict Given Land from Pablo Escobar’s ‘Cocaine Hippos’ Ranch

Oct 2, 2025 | James Reynolds

Victims of Colombia’s decades-long armed conflict have controversially been given swathes of land from drug baron Pablo Escobar’s ranch, famed for its ‘cocaine hippos’.

President Gustavo Petro…

Nigeria: Short Term Expert Consultant, GIZ PEACECORP II

Oct 1, 2025 | Corus International
Relief Web

About Corus: Corus International is the parent of a family of world-class social impact organizations that collaborate in the world's most vulnerable communities to deliver the…

Yemen: Gender and Stakeholders Engagement Specialist (Biodiversity Enabling Activities)

Sep 18, 2025 | CTG (Committed To Good)

The GEF created a global program to support countries to design a national biodiversity finance plan. A biodiversity finance plan includes a systems analysis of…

Ghana: In Coastal Ghana, Female Oyster Farmers Try to Save an Old Practice Threatened by Climate Change

Sep 18, 2025 | Naa Adorkor Cudjoe and Ope Adetayo
AP News

Beatrice Nutekpor weaves through the mangroves in Tsokomey community, just outside of Ghana’s capital of Accra, every day to harvest oysters for sale. It’s a…

Please Vote!: How Will Our EnPax Gender Interest Group Collaborate?

Sep 18, 2025 | Gender Interest Group

Please complete the EnPAx Gender Interest Group Collaboration Poll to vote on how you'd like our group to work together on the road to the 4th International Conference…

Somalia: Design of Gendered Displacement Drivers Assessment (GDDA) Framework

Sep 18, 2025 | CARE

Nagaasho – Integrated Solutions for Preventing Displacement and Strengthening Rural Resilience in Somalia and Somaliland is a consortium of national and international organizations – CARE…

Call for Proposals: Environmental Peacebuilding Panel at the 2026 NERPS Conference in Tokyo (Deadline: October 6, 2025)

Sep 15, 2025

Tobias Ide and Aleksandra Balinskaia will organise a panel on environmental peacebuilding at the 5th Conference of the Network for Education and Research on Peace and…

South Sudan: Manager of Programme Quality

Sep 11, 2025 | ZOA

ZOA supports people who have lost everything due to armed conflict or natural disaster. With 900 employees and (local) partners ZOA is active in Africa, South…

Women, Peace and Security Champion Profile: Network of Civic Women for Peace, Thailand

Sep 11, 2025 | UN Women Asia and the Pacific
UN Women Asia and the Pacific

Based in Pattani, in Thailand’s Deep South, the Network of Civic Women for Peace (Civic Women) is an inspiring community-based women’s empowerment organization that has…

Mary’s New Harvest: How Innovation Is Changing Farming in Embu

Sep 10, 2025 | Eileen Bogweh Nchanji, Lutomia Cosmas, and Victor Nyamolo
Alliance Biodiversity & CIAT

Mary, a smallholder farmer in Runyenjes, Embu, joined GTSTIB pilots to test new seeds, soil tools, and gender dialogues. Her yields and family nutrition improved, empowering her voice in…