Month: May 2017
The Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance (CNCA) has produced a series of infographics illustrating how much is spent on fossil fuels every year in five US cities including Washington D.C. The infographics summarize spending by citizens, businesses and city governments, showing where the money goes and what it could otherwise fund if it were redirected into… Read More »
Partners for Places is a matching grant program that builds partnerships between local place-based foundations and municipal sustainability directors in the U.S and Canada. The fund provides matching investments on a competitive basis… Read More »
Belize is the first country in the world to adopt a national, multispecies secure fishing rights program for small-scale fisheries. The new paradigm empowers Belize’s fishers and communities to conserve and protect the ecosystem, while still using its resources to provide for their families.
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TIDE, one of Belize’s most respected NGOs, uses a ridge-to-reef approach in its conservation and sustainable development work in southern Belize’s Mayan Mountain Marine Corridor, where it manages … … Read More »
Through its online platform the Coalition for Adolescent Girls brings together more than 30 international organizations that design, implement and evaluate programs that benefit adolescent girls throughout the developing world who are trapped in cycles of poverty… Read More »
GOJoven was launched in 2004 in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Quintana Roo, Mexico and has trained over 350 young leaders aged 18-30 to act as catalysts for improving adolescent sexual and reproductive health choices, services, policies, and programs at the community, national, and regional levels. Run by the Public Health Institute for nearly ten years, PHI began supporting a transition to alumni-led GOJovens in each country in 2012. The youth-led GOJoven associations in each country have continued to grow and deepen their programs addressing ASRH and transform gender norms… Read More »