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Frontiers: Innovative Approaches for Women’s Land Rights
Date:
March 15, 2023
Online
RSVP HERE The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes important goals related to ending poverty and promoting gender equality. The Agenda recognizes that the pathways to achieve these goals involve securing the rights of women and men to land (SDG Indicator 1.4.2) and improving the legal frameworks to promote women’s equal rights to land ownership…Read More
Addressing Climate Security: Toolkits for Action
Date:
March 09, 2023
Online
Join USAID’s Center for Conflict and Violence Prevention or CVP and ConnexUs for the first webinar of a knowledge-sharing campaign on climate change and conflict. CVP and knowledge-sharing platform ConnexUs are holding a roundtable discussion highlighting toolkits that provide peacebuilding, development, and humanitarian practitioners with guidance on anticipating and reducing conflict and fragility related to water…Read More
Frontiers: Standing with Environmental Defenders Under Threat
Date:
January 19, 2023
Online
How can the global community do a better job of standing with environmental defenders and protect them against threats? On January 19th, 2023, USAID hosted an online panel to discuss the threats facing environmental defenders as they fight against negative climate impacts and biodiversity loss, as well as potential solutions to help mitigate these multiple...Read More
Frontiers: The Future of Land Evaluations – Policy Track
Date:
December 01, 2022
Event, Online
Impact evaluations are critical for understanding whether program and policy interventions are working, why, and for whom. In recent years, the land sector has made significant progress in using impact evaluations to build the evidence base for land tenure programs and improve policy and program effectiveness. Please join us for a virtual convening, hosted by…Read More
Frontiers: The Future of Land Evaluations – Policy Track
Date:
November 30, 2022
Event, Online
Impact evaluations are critical for understanding whether program and policy interventions are working, why, and for whom. In recent years, the land sector has made significant progress in using impact evaluations to build the evidence base for land tenure programs and improve policy and program effectiveness. Please join us for a virtual convening, hosted by…Read More
What Better Looks Like: Breaking the Critical Minerals Resource Curse
Date:
October 04, 2022
The Wilson Center and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) hosted an expert discussion on what better looks like when it comes to mining, processing, recycling, and consuming critical minerals such as lithium, cobalt, niobium, and titanium. OVERVIEW In recent years, the urgency of climate action has brought fresh attention to the critical minerals…Read More
Frontiers: The Voluntary Guidelines on Tenure, Ten Years Later
Date:
June 07, 2022
Online
Virtual Event Tuesday, June 7, 2022 | 9:00AM – 10:00AM EDT Watch the event recording here Ten years ago, donors from around the world came together to negotiate a first-of-its-kind international agreement to strengthen and secure land rights in the context of food security. This agreement—the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of…Read More
Opportunity and Risk: Mining and the Green Energy Transition
Date:
June 01, 2022
Online
The Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program held a discussion on how the projected increase in mineral demand could influence markets, supply chains, and geopolitical competition, shaping the future of global peace and security. Wednesday June 1, 2022 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM ET For more details, visit the Wilson Center event page. The…Read More
Frontiers: Women Leading Solutions to Climate Change
Date:
March 21, 2022
Online
Virtual Event Monday March 21, 2022 | 9:00AM – 10:30AM EDT Watch the event recording here. Climate change poses incredible challenges for women and girls in the developing world and threatens global progress on gender equality. We know that the growing scarcity of natural resources and the increase in extreme weather events due to climate change…Read More
Artisanal Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) Sector Expansion in Latin America: Drivers, Impacts, Solutions
Date:
February 25, 2021
Online
Hosted by the LAC Environment Combating Conservation Crime Learning Group, this event spotlighted ASGM in Peru and approaches to address its drivers and impacts, from improving governance to environmental remediation. Presentations by: Ana Cristina Villegas, Biodiversity and Forest Advisor, USAID LAC Bureau Beatriz Torres, Regional Amazon Environment Specialist, USAID/Peru Luis Fernandez, Executive Director, Wake Forest…Read More