The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is searching for an experienced Senior Programme Manager to oversee and implement the GAIN and HarvestPlus Commercialization of Biofortified Crops initiative globally. The Senior Programme Manager will manage GAIN’s engagement with partner organisations, specifically around commercialization and marketing of biofortified crops. They will bring excellent program management skills, overseeing the…

Practical Action has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Programme Officer in Climate Policy and Governance in the East Africa office. The Senior Programme Officer will spearhead provision of technical support towards achievement of climate change and natural resources policy interventions within the broader Climate and Resilience Program. Additionally, the position holder will contribute to the development of climate technology policy and…

The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) is a joint initiative of l'Agence Française de Développement, Conservation International (CI), the European Union, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the Government of Japan and the World Bank. CEPF is a global program that provides grants to civil society to safeguard the world’s biodiversity hotspots. The CEPF Secretariat intends to conduct an evaluation of the regional implementation teams…

Practical Action has an exciting opportunity for an Intern under the Climate and Resilience Programme in the East Africa office. The Intern will be expected to directly support the development of community resilience and work with technical experts within the organization. The Intern is responsible for: Planning, participating in and supporting community events Supporting the identification and profiling of potential candidate communities for…

The Climate Change research group (CCG) is looking for a researcher to support delivery of IIED’s climate finance and drylands work programme. The role is based in CCG's climate resilience, productivity and equity in the drylands team. The primary functions of the post holder will, under the guidance of more senior researchers, include contributing to the development of research themes related to climate finance, adaptation and resilience. You…

Pride Lion Conservation Alliance and Colorado State University have joined forces to offer a special training as part of Pathways Africa 2020: Human Dimensions of Wildlife Conference and Training. The focus of the training is to help African women conservation leaders strengthen their leadership skill sets to both achieve their goals and achieve greater conservation outcomes across Africa. This 3-day training workshop will offer personal growth…

The Programme enables students to benefit from a prestigious, world-class, quality education contributing to capacity building whilst also profiling the best that Ireland has to offer in education. The aims of the Ireland-Africa Fellows Programme are to nurture future African leaders, women and men, to develop in-country capacity to achieve national SDG goals, and to build positive relationships between Ireland and Africa. Through the programme,…

The Youth Water Fellowship is our flagship programme, and it aims to empower young leaders from low and middle income countries to set up social businesses that tackle water, sanitation & hygiene (WASH), water pollution and water scarcity issues, by offering them an intensive training incubation programme in business & WASH, seed funding grants for their pilot projects, and mentoring support by senior level experts during one year. In each…

RSWR is a Quaker organization supported primarily by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the United States. RSWR has two main goals: Provide grants for women in the developing world to begin small income-generating businesses so that they may help themselves and their families out of poverty. Help Quakers in the United States learn about the negative effects of poverty in the developing world and the negative effects of materialism in…

Agriculture forms the backbone of many developing countries and is the main economic activity for the rural communities. Since its modest beginnings, the agricultural sector has become increasingly complex and multi-faceted. The challenge agriculture faces today is how to feed the world population in an equitable manner while protecting the environment from irreversible negative changes. Monitoring and Evaluation tools and techniques plays a key…

In order to achieve a world free of hunger and malnutrition, it is vital to provide sustainable solutions that provide the largest impacts on development outcomes. Monitoring and Evaluation tools and techniques plays a key role in ensuring Food Security programs are designed, implemented as plan and that they improve the well-being of the target communities. This course equips the participants with adequate skills to develop and manage robust M&E…

The AgriFI Kenya Challenge Fund is a European Union initiative to support productive and market-integrated smallholder agriculture through the provision of financial support worth EUR 18,000,000 to agri-enterprises. The aim is to contribute to improvements in the capacity of smallholder farmers/pastoralists to practise environmentally sustainable and climate-smart agriculture as a business in inclusive value chains. The Challenge Fund is funded…

The African Academy of Sciences (AAS) Affiliates Membership Programme aims to stimulate and nurture scientific discovery and technological innovation in Africa in order to promote sustainable development.The AAS Affiliates Programme seeks early and mid-career scientists who demonstrate excellence in their development and application of science in Africa. These individuals become Affiliates of The AAS for a period of five years during which they…

Wefarm, the world’s largest farmer-to-farmer digital network, enables farmers to connect with one another over SMS to solve problems, share ideas and spread innovation with Wefarm utilising the latest machine learning technology to enable this connection. Small-scale agriculture is the biggest industry on earth, with more than a billion farmers globally supplying 70% of the world's food and commodities, yet remaining digitally unconnected. Until…

Dans le but d'accompagner les pays africains dans leur processus d’élaboration d’une stratégie de développement sobre en carbone et résilient aux changements climatiques, le Fonds Français pour l'environnement Mondial lance un Programme d’appui à la prise en compte des changements climatiques dans les stratégies de développement. Le Fonds français pour l’environnement mondial (FFEM) est un fonds public bilatéral crée à l’initiative du…

The International Fertilizer Development Centre (IFDC) is a non-profit, public international soil fertility and agricultural development center. As a center of excellence with expertise in fertilizers, IFDC serves the needs of developing countries by helping them solve their food-deficit problems by focusing on the development of fertilizers and nutrient management practices to meet the special needs of their tropical and subtropical crops, soils…

The International Fertilizer Development Centre (IFDC) is a non-profit, public international soil fertility and agricultural development center. As a center of excellence with expertise in fertilizers, IFDC serves the needs of developing countries by helping them solve their food-deficit problems by focusing on the development of fertilizers and nutrient management practices to meet the special needs of their tropical and subtropical crops, soils…

Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV) in association with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Netherlands invites expressions of interest from private sector-led agribusinesses to co-invest in the implementation of business models under the Climate Smart Agriculture East Africa Project (CSA-EA). The goal is to increase the availability of accessible climate smart food for the population in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Selected SMEs and cooperatives…

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Country Office in Kenya welcomes applications for the position of Portfolio Analyst on Environment and Resilience based in Nairobi, Kenya. Kenya is facing many environment challenges that include deforestation, soil erosion, land degradation, desertification, loss of biodiversity, water scarcity and pollution from industry. In this context and under the overall guidance of the Head of Programme and…

Le sommet Africain de l'Agriculture durable 2019 a été annoncé cette année à Nairobi, Kenya par Agriculture and Food Authority(AFA)Kenya. AFA Kenya traite des produits, marchandises, marchandises, services et activités liés aux agences gouvernementales, aux accréditations et à la certification, aux régulateurs de l'industrie, aux licences de produits frais et aux entreprises semi-publiques. Ce sommet portera sur les thèmes telsque: Les pratiques…

The International Finance Coorporation is looking for an associate environmental and social specialist. As a sister organization of the World Bank and member of the World Bank Group, the IFC is one of the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. The key responsibilities for this job includes, among many others: Undertake Environmental and Social (E&S) due diligence of IFC’s proposed investments in…

This first regional edition of the One Planet Summit will take place on 14 March 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya. The event will highlight the unique role of Africa as a global partner facing both challenges and opportunities, in particular in the field of innovative solutions for adaptation and resilience. The Summit will bring together high-level officials, CEOs and inspiring voices from youth, and civil society to showcase concrete achievements and…

The African Group of Negotiators Expert Support (AGNES) through the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) looking to recruit two Interns – Climate Change Negotiations and IPCC to bolster AGNES’s technical team. The objective of the assignment is to strengthen AGNES’s technical capacity and provide all the necessary support to AGNES activities through provision of high quality services. Under the overall guidance of the Team Leader, AGNES,…

This webinar will feature experiences from several grassroots initiatives and highlight how they fight for women’s improved access to and control over land and other natural resources and to scale up women’s land rights. Panelists will address the following questions: Why do women’s land rights remain an issue with so much attention focusing on it? What went wrong? What are good practices in achieving success towards women’s land rights and what…

International Centre for development oriented Research in Agriculture (ICRA) supports education and capacity strengthening in agriculture and the rural sector in the developing world. Among its forms of engagement, ICRA offers specialized training courses each year. Applications are invited for courses that include: “Building agribusiness relations for sustainable profit” (April 2019, Benin/ June 2019, Nigeria / November 2019, Kenya). ICRA’s…