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The Capacity4dev editorial team regularly publishes knowledge pieces on external cooperation (projects and policies), featuring development professionals sharing good practices, with operational insight.

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Biodiversity day
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Ambassadors' Blog Post

On International Day for Biological Diversity, our Capacity4dev Ambassador Enrique Andrés del Castillo shares his insights on the crucial role of youth activism in ensuring the future of biodiversity and ecosystems.

Worldwide
Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Children and Youth
Climate change & disaster risks
+1
Environment & green economy
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Effective climate diplomacy requires action at all levels

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Voices & Views

Climate change affects everyone – from villagers in the most remote parts of the world, to metropolitan heads of government and private sector leaders. Amid a changing political landscape and an increase in climate impacts...

Climate change & disaster risks
Climate adaptation
Climate Change
+18
Desertification/land degradation
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
Drought
Flood prevention/control
Climate Change Mitigation
Environment & green economy
Environmental education/ training
Environmental Governance
Environmental justice & law
Environmental mainstreaming
Environmental research
Green policy
Natural resource management
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience
Conflict analysis
Peace and Security Goals
Post conflict
Resilience

Views from the Field: In Conversation with the Foreign Minister and EU Ambassador to Timor-Leste

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Voices & Views

Emerging from over two decades of conflict and instability, in May 2002 the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste became the 21st century’s first new sovereign state. Since then the country’s government – with assistance from the...

Asia
Timor-Leste
Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Climate change & disaster risks
Development Policy
+3
Environment & green economy
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience
Forests

Waste Management in Mali: Training Small Scale Enterprises Improves Incomes and Environment

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Voices & Views

By training informal workers in the waste management industry, the SNV Netherlands Development Organisation is helping to formalise waste management economy in Mali, and to generate incomes.

Africa
Mali
Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Capacity Development
Climate change & disaster risks
+7
Environment & green economy
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience
Health
Knowledge Management
Learning
Forests
Urban Development

The EU Approach to Resilience: Learning from Food Security Crises

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Voices & Views

Climate change and extreme weather, population growth, galloping urbanization and soil degradation impact the lives of an unprecedented number of people today. More communities are exposed to possible natural or economic disaster...

Africa
Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Climate change & disaster risks
Environment & green economy
+3
Food & Nutrition Security
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience
Forests

Africa's Natural Resources: ‘Resource-Rich’ Shouldn’t Mean ‘Conflict Ridden’

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Voices & Views

All too often, the countries in Africa that nature has endowed with the most economically valuable resources have also struggled with devastating instability and conflict: A paradox that the African Union and European Commission...

Africa
Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Capacity Development
Climate change & disaster risks
+8
Environment & green economy
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience
Governance & Corruption
Knowledge Management
Learning
Private Sector
Forests
Trade & Economic Integration

Linking Emergency and Development in Burkina Faso

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Voices & Views

Thanks to a clever use of existing procedures, the European Union Delegation to Burkina Faso working in partnership with the government, successfully managed a seamless transition from an emergency intervention by the Commission’s...

Agriculture & Rural Development
Food & Nutrition Security
Climate change & disaster risks
+3
Environment & green economy
Capacity Development
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience