In Northern Sierra Leone, access to safe drinking water is scarce. Some of the villages are still not equipped with water systems, and when they are, most of the systems (66%) do not provide water systematically throughout the year. Since 2011, Inter Aide has been running a project to develop preventive maintenance services for hand pumps. The program started in Bombali district and has been extended to 3 additional districts: Karene (district…

Gola Rainforest Conservation (GRC) is non-profit company formed in partnership between the Government of Sierra Leone, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), the Conservation Society of Sierra Leone (CSSL, the Birdlife International Partner) and local forest-edge communities in 2015 to manage the Gola Rainforest National Park. The Greater Gola Landscape straddles the Liberia/Sierra Leone border and comprises a mosaic of the largest…

En réponse aux impacts du changement climatique sur la productivité agricole en Afrique de l'Ouest, notamment sur les petits producteurs, la Communauté Economique des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (CEDEAO) a développé un mécanisme financier intégré au Fonds Régional pour l’Agriculture et l’Alimentation (FRAA) dénommé « Initiative Ouest-Africaine pour une Agriculture Intelligente face au Climat (WAICSA) ». Le dispositif de financement du WAICSA…

Afin de contribuer à relever le niveau et la disponibilité de l’expertise régionale en matière de gestion des aires protégées, l’UICN, à travers la composante 2 du Programme d’Appui à la Préservation de la Biodiversité, à la Gouvernance Environnementale et aux Changements Climatiques (PAPBio) intitulée « Gouvernance Régionale des Aires Protégées en Afrique de l’Ouest », envisage la mise en place d’un dispositif régional d’accompagnement de la…

IFS provides tailored research capacity-enhancing support to promising early career scientists based around the provision of individual Basic Grants. To secure IFS support, applicants must submit a sound research project application on a self selected topic within the three research cluster area that is innovative and/or relevant to her or his local or national development needs. The research proposal must demonstrate knowledge of the subject…

The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) is a network of 114 Universities in 38 African countries is pleased to announce the 2019 RUFORUM Young African Entrepreneurs Competition (RUYAEC). The 2019 RUFORUM Young African Entrepreneurs Competition (RUYAEC) whose overall purpose is to catalyse entrepreneurship through promotion of business innovation and provision of seed funding to young entrepreneurs with…

Early-career researchers from 21 Least Developed Member Countries of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) are eligible for an ambitious new postdoctoral programme offered by IsDB and TWAS. The fellowships will support research related to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, providing recipients with high-level training in areas relevant to sustainability science. IsDB-TWAS Postdoctoral Fellowships are tenable at centres of excellence…

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…

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…

The 2019 Northern Africa Regional Meeting (NARM) of International Forestry Students’ Association (IFSA) is specially planned to engage, informed and create awareness among African youths, especially young foresters and professionals on the global goals as highlighted in SDGs. The meeting will create a meeting point and forum to engage in intellectual discourse among youth, professionals and general public interested in protection and sustainable…

The International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) is an international, non-profit agricultural research center focused on marginal areas where an estimated 1.7 billion people live. The ICBA invites expression of interest for consultancy services, as Water policy consultant to develop and elaborate a review report of water management policy and development of water use policy guidance for each target country through stakeholder and expert…

Le Centre de recherche pour le développement Germano-Sud-africain (South african-german centre for dévelopment research SA-GER CDR), un programme conjoint de l’Afrique du Sud et de l’Allemagne, offre des bourses aux étudiants d’Afrique subsaharienne pour le compte de l’année académique 2020. La bourse donne lieu à une formation à temps plein, entièrement financée, dans l’Université du Cap occidental (UWC), une institution publique sud-africaine…

The intersection of climate change and biodiversity is a point of the utmost importance for the future of humanity. Biodiversity is especially sensitive to climate change after 10,000 years of adjusting to a stable climate. The finger prints of climate change can be seen anywhere one looks in nature.Natural ecosystems can help people particularly the poor in rural and urban areas adapt to changes in our climate. Sustainably managed rivers…

Lancé en juillet 2016 par la Fondation Nicolas Hulot pour la Nature et l’Homme,(FNH), en partenariat avec le FORIM et avec le soutien financier principal de l’Agence Française de Développement. Le PGC a pour objectif de favoriser l’engagement des jeunes, et particulièrement ceux/celles issu-e-s des migrations, en tant qu’acteurs/trices de la lutte contre le changement climatique en France et dans les pays du Sud. Le dispositif « Agir à l…

The biomass energy situation has transformed dramatically over the past decade with a significant increase in charcoal production nationally and in charcoal consumption in urban areas. Many rural people are giving up farming to become full-time charcoal and commercial fuel wood (firewood) producers, illustrating the new vitality of the trade and its importance for rural livelihoods. However, there is little incentive to improve efficiency. The…

The Africa Agri-Food Development Programme (AADP) is a joint initiative between the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The Objective of the AADP is to develop partnerships between the Irish Agri-Food Sector and African countries to support sustainable growth of the local food industry, build markets for local produce and support mutual trade between Ireland and Africa.

Manage the day-to-day operational and strategic implementation of the Gola Programmes components of the "Securing forest community livelihoods through sustainable smallholder cocoa development" Comic Relief-funded project lead by TWIN and in partnership with Rainforest Alliance to ensure project deliverables are met within time and budget.