EPA is soliciting proposals for a collaborative program that would enhance environmental governance capacity of institutions (environmental and/or related functions):

The overall objective of this cooperative agreement is to assist institutions in strengthening their legal, technical, research, analytical, program implementation capacity, and policies and procedures for more effective governance through the exchange of expert knowledge, information, strategies, and tools.  The proposed program will provide capacity building through the development and implementation of projects in areas, including but not limited to:

The estimated total award will be US$5 million over five years.

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Closing Date: August 9, 2015.

The Asia-Pacific Region is home to more than half the world’s population with development aspirations that challenge the sustainability of natural resources, communities and their cultural heritage. Achieving these aspirations is further complicated by the impacts of natural and anthropogenic changes in the Earth’s bio-geophysical systems.

Recent research and supporting observations have provided new insights into these changes and their impacts but have, at the same time, raised a number of new and challenging issues and questions. The Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) seeks to identify and address these issues through scientific research, capacity building, science-policy dialogue and awareness raising.

In order to achieve its mission, APN fosters the understanding of global environmental change by conducting regional research through collaboration and capacity building in accordance with the four goals outlined below. Each goal may be achieved primarily through support of competitively selected activities in research, capacity building and science-policy dialogue, in particular, according to the scientific themes identified under its action agenda, which are climate change & climate variability; biodiversity & ecosystems; changes in atmospheric, terrestrial and marine domains; resources utilisation & pathways for sustainable development; and risk reduction and resilience. Specifically, APN goals, in order of priority, are:

Closing Date: July 31,2015.

UN-Habitat and the International Ecological Safety Collaboration Organization (IESCO) supported by China Development Orient Urban Development and Investment Company Limited (“CDB-ORIENT”), a major private sector organization in China have jointly launched a biennial Youth Innovation Awards Programme.

These organizations have consequently sent out the first calls for entries for those interested in being considered for the award. The award intended to recognize, honor and promote young generation of leaders who are in a unique position to leverage the power of invention to establish businesses which would contribute to solving social and environmental problems.

The aim of the Award is to acknowledge and recognize initiatives which will create positive impact socially, economically and environmentally. The initiative should act as catalyst towards the promotion of sustainable cities and towns and encourage talent needed for future urban development measured by creation of youth employment, poverty alleviation and ensuring ecological safety. This Award will be granted to outstanding inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs from all corners of the globe – particularly those from developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America and depending on the success of the pilot initiative and subject to the availability of resources, it will be replicated in other parts of the globe.

The 5 categories span the breadth of the Award and are judged by the steering Committee and panel of expert judges in their field. Awards will be given in the following categories:

1.       Youth Leadership,

2.       Green inventions and Innovations,

3.       Urban Ecological Safety,

4.       Youth Entrepreneurship, and

5.       Social and cultural innovations.

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Closing Date: 21 July 2015; 20 October 2015; and 22 March 2016.

We offer a wide range of courses which will help you to develop the capacities, leadership qualities needed to be creative, adaptive and responsive to the dynamics of a rapidly changing world. In our courses we connect WUR’s technical and scientific expertise with cutting-edge processes of innovation and learning.

The Centre for Development Innovation offers over 35 courses in the fields of:

Funding for most courses is available through the Netherlands Fellowship Program (NFP/MSP).

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