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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

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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

Local heroes protecting the world’s biodiversity hotspots

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Voices & Views

Small, local conservation organisations in high-biodiversity areas are among nature’s most powerful allies; this is mainly due to their knowledge of and influence over the environment. However, in most cases, these organisations...

Americas & the Caribbean
Bolivia
Asia
+1
Viet Nam
Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Environment & green economy

Policy dialogue: a tool to act on climate and environment

Article
Voices & Views

The recent European Green Deal, set by the European Commission, is paving the road to a sustainable Europe by clearly recognising the global climate emergency, and by providing new input for action in and outside of Europe...

Asia
Laos
Viet Nam
Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Conservation
Natural resource management
+4
Wildlife trade & trafficking
Environment & green economy
Green policy
Resource efficiency

Tanzania: New Resistant Coffee Varieties Developed with EU Support

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Voices & Views

As soon as the seedlings are ready for planting, women in brightly coloured clothes wrapped at the waist load the new disease resistant varieties of coffee seedlings into the back of a truck. Developed at the Tanzania Coffee...

Africa
Tanzania
Agriculture & Rural Development
Capacity Development
Fisheries
+2
Knowledge Management
Learning

Enabling Communities to Tackle Climate Change

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Voices & Views

Around the tables at the Climate Change Conference in Paris, nations are striving to reach consensus on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and damage to the environment. To turn recommendations into results, all stakeholders...

Africa
Benin
Uganda
+2
Americas & the Caribbean
Trinidad and Tobago
Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Climate change & disaster risks
Environment & green economy
+1
Forests

The Land-Drugs Nexus

Article
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

Working with Opportunity and Risk: Insight to EU Operations in Myanmar

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Voices & Views

The government-initiated reforms in Myanmar over the past three years have provided great opportunity for increased development engagement, but the context continues to require sensitive assessments of opportunities and risks. In...

Asia
Myanmar
Democracy
Governance & Corruption
Human Rights

Roadmaps to Engage Civil Society

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Voices & Views

For European Union delegations and member states, working effectively with civil society organisations presents different challenges. In Chad it takes five days of desert travel to reach organisations in the north; in Azerbaijan...

Americas & the Caribbean
Trinidad and Tobago
Asia
+1
India
Civil Society