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Serie Global Gateway: Educación digital en África Oriental

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Voices & Views

La educación digital puede ser un poderoso proveedor de igualdad, desarrollo personal y paz, especialmente en las regiones en conflicto. Entrevistamos a los equipos que hay detrás de dos programas de cooperación internacional con...

Africa
Burundi
Comoros
+17
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Kenya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mauritius
Mozambique
Rwanda
Seychelles
Somalia
South Sudan
Sudan
Uganda
Tanzania
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Children and Youth
Education
ICT in education
+3
Inclusive education
Quality of education
Employment & VET

Global Gateway Series : L'éducation numérique en Afrique de l'Est

Article
Voices & Views

L'éducation numérique peut être un puissant vecteur d'égalité, de développement personnel et de paix, notamment dans les régions en conflit. Nous avons interviewé les équipes à l'origine de deux programmes de coopération...

Africa
Burundi
Comoros
+17
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Kenya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mauritius
Mozambique
Rwanda
Seychelles
Somalia
South Sudan
Sudan
Uganda
Tanzania
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Children and Youth
Education
ICT in education
+3
Inclusive education
Quality of education
Employment & VET

Global Gateway Series: Digital education in East Africa

Article
Voices & Views

Digital education can be a powerful purveyor of equality, personal development and peace, especially in conflict regions. We interviewed the teams behind two international cooperation programmes with impressive achievements in e...

Africa
Burundi
Comoros
+17
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Kenya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mauritius
Mozambique
Rwanda
Seychelles
Somalia
South Sudan
Sudan
Uganda
Tanzania
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Children and Youth
Education
ICT in education
+3
Inclusive education
Quality of education
Employment & VET

Tackling malnutrition in all its forms

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Voices & Views

Ending hunger and malnutrition by 2030 will require approaches that go beyond targeting only stunting and wasting – agreed the participants of the Nutrition Seminar organised in March by the European Commission in Brussels.

Worldwide
Africa
Chad
+1
Kenya
Development Effectiveness
Children and Youth
Health
+3
Health in fragile contexts
Nutrition and health
Reproductive health care

Kenyan youth volunteer in life mentorship networks to counter violent extremism

Article
Voices & Views

In the aftermath of the Westgate shopping mall massacre in Nairobi which claimed at least 67 lives in 2014, volunteers have come together to mentor youths at risk of being recruited by radical violent groups and criminal gangs in...

Africa
Kenya
Children and Youth
Youth engagement and participation
Peace and Security
+1
Conflict prevention, Peace keeping & Peace building

The Land-Drugs Nexus

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Voices & Views

"For many communities in Myanmar who grow opium, for them opium is not the problem, it is the solution to their problems," said local project consultant, Tom Kramer, from the Transnational Institute. And therein lies one of the...

Asia
Afghanistan
Myanmar
Agriculture & Rural Development
Fisheries

The Future of Entomophagy

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Voices & Views

Insects are rich in protein and ecologically sustainable to produce, so why are we reluctant to put them in our mouths? According to Marian Peters, chairperson of the Dutch Insect Breeders Association, the answer is partly...

Africa
Kenya
Uganda
+1
Europe
Food & Nutrition Security

Declining Bee Numbers: Measures to Protect the Pollinators in Africa and Asia

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Voices & Views

As the crucial role of bees as pollinators of the world’s food supply is increasingly becoming common knowledge, reports about the serious decline of honeybee populations in Europe and the USA have alarmed governments, the private...

Africa
Kenya
Asia
+1
Thailand
Agriculture & Rural Development
Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Climate change & disaster risks
+3
Environment & green economy
Food & Nutrition Security
Forests

Ecosystems Approach to Make Agriculture More Efficient, More Sustainable, and to Create More Intelligent Markets

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Voices & Views

“The future of food security on the current trajectory is a road to nowhere, and to repeat the statistics that we need to grow 50-70% more food without answering the questions, on what land, with which water and with what kind of...

Africa
Kenya
Uganda
+1
Tanzania
Agriculture & Rural Development
Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Climate change & disaster risks
+3
Environment & green economy
Fisheries
Forests

Monitoring an agro-pastoralist project in northern Kenya

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Voices & Views

The EU’s Food Facility is supporting an innovative approach in Eastern Africa to strengthen food security in arid and semi-arid lands. Last year, EuropeAid’s Daniel Clauss accompanied a review mission to the region to visit EU...

Africa
Kenya
Monitoring & Evaluation
Intervention Cycle Management (Project/Program Cycle Management)
Food & Nutrition Security