Waste, rubbish, trash, junk, garbage… you name it! Growing cities in many parts of the world face serious problems from increasing generation of waste. If not well managed, it can be an environmental and health problem, but also an economic loss.
Written by Arben Kopliku, Zenebe B. Uraguchi, Valbona Karakaçi -
11. January 2017
In common with all our country programmes, the Madagascar team have developed a definition of what it means to be disadvantaged in their country context.
Thanks to the Sharique project, women are elected to the Union Parishads office – the lowest administrative unit in Bangladesh. They are increasingly well-informed and politically savvy.
With the ratification of the Paris agreement the focus needs to shift to building implementation capacities in the countries most at risk from climate change such as Mali.
The wildfires in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada in May 2016 consumed more than 2,400 structures and nearly 600,000 hectares of forest. Considered as Canada’s costliest disaster, it was a case showing the need to have proactive (and not reactive) disaster risk management measures in place –fire risk maps for ensuring safe evacuation in fire prone areas or designating the areas as unsafe for human habitation.
Written by Saleemul Huq, Zenebe B. Uraguchi -
11. October 2016
