Archive for the ‘Environment and Natural Resources’ Category
New tool kit for WASH practitioners
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
You’ve heard the expression, ‘water is life’. Everyone needs water and sanitation, and everyone should benefit from improving access to water and sanitation, and good hygiene practices. Unfortunately, this doesn’t
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Interview with Tulele Peisa: PNG Carterets reaction to growing Pacific islands report
Monday, June 21st, 2010
On June 15 2010 Ursula Rakova, Executive Director of IWDA partner Tulele Peisa, spoke to Pearson Vetuna on Pacific Beat, Radio Australia, about a recent New Scientist report which claims that island
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Tags: climate change, Papua New Guinea, Tulele Peisa
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Ignore water, ignore women
Friday, March 26th, 2010
Ignore water, ignore women
That’s the title of a recent article in the The Punch by Juliett Willetts ( The Institute for Sustainable Futures), published in time for World Water Day on 22nd March and helping to bring the issue once again to the world’s attention.
Also just released is the latest report of the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme on Water Supply and Sanitation entitled “Progress on sanitation and drinking-water – 2010 Update”, it provides the most recent data for drinking-water and sanitation, along with the implications and trends these new data reveal for reaching the basic sanitation and safe drinking-water MDG target.
For example around the world a staggering 884 million people, one in eight people sharing the world todaycan’t just turn on a tap and access safe water
With the MDG target date of 2015 only five years away, it is time to intensify efforts towards achieving the MDG target and addressing the glaring disparities worldwide.
Tags: Environment, Events/Campaigns/Press Releases, MDG, Natural Resources, Pacific
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How do we better address gender in Pacific water and sanitation initiatives? Vanuatu
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Research project: Making the invisible visible – Vanuatu case study report
The research project ‘Making the invisible visible’ explores the strategies, steps and activities that are working to promote gender equity in, and through, water and sanitation program in the Pacific. The Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) and the International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) are currently undertaking research funded by AusAID to investigate gender outcomes in water and sanitation initiatives in the Pacific with partner NGOs.
Tags: Environment, Live and Learn, Resources/Materials/Publications, Vanuatu
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Copenhagen…where to now?
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Copenhagen…where to now?
One week into the two-week summit, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said, ‘the time for delay and blame is over…We must leave this conference…with a strong, robust and substantive outcome’. As marathon negotiations continued, the possibility of a politically binding negotiation slipped further and further from reach. Despite calls for decisive, binding targets from activists and communities the resulting accord has left us asking “where to now?”
Tags: climate change, Environment
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Fiji women send a clear message to world leaders in Copenhagen
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
Fiji women send a clear message to world leaders in Copenhagen
Women’s Action for Change have been lobbying for climate justice in lead up to COP15 and are now sending this clear message to governments from around the world that the women of Fiji want carbon dioxide emissions reduced to at least 350ppm to ensure survival of small island states – for the future of women, families and children.
Tags: climate change, Environment, Events/Campaigns/Press Releases, WAC
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How do we better address gender in Pacific water and sanitation initiatives? Fiji
Friday, October 16th, 2009
Research project: Making the invisible visible – documenting successes, enablers and measures of engendering water and sanitation initiatives in the Pacific to inform policy and practice Fiji Case Study –
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Tags: Environment, Fiji, Live and Learn, Resources/Materials/Publications
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Top UN Committee calls for gender equality to be an over-arching principle in climate change negotiations
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the expert body responsible for reviewing implementation of the UN Convention of the same name, has expressed “its concern about
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Tags: climate change, Environment
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