Indigenous Peoples and Community (ICCAs) Projects in Malaysia
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Global Support Initiative for Indigenous Peoples and Community – Conserved Territories and Areas (ICCA-GSI) is a global project funded by the Government of Germany, through its Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMU), implemented by UNDP-GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP).
The ICCA-GSI response to COVID-19 will support IPLCs to strengthen their short-term coping mechanisms as well as their long-term socio-ecological resilience. Grassroots actions and initiatives will build on indigenous self-determination principles, including indigenous food sovereignty, to nurture healthy, reciprocal relationships with the land, plants and animals, as well as with other producer organisations and networks.
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Patrick J. McGovern Foundation awards $5.7 million to support vulnerable communities as pandemic surges
December 17, 2020 GMT
BOSTON, Dec. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation announced today $5.7 million in grants to support vulnerable communities through the pandemic and to bring trusted COVID-19 data and analysis to policymakers and the public.
The 21 grants are the latest of the Foundation’s COVID-19 response and community support commitments in 2020, totaling $14.7 million since March. More than $3.7 million will address the mounting crises of hunger, homelessness, and under-employment and unemployment across the United States, and $1.15 million will support ongoing social justice efforts for refugees, migrants, gender equality, and formerly gang involved and previously incarcerated individuals.
Metro’s CBO Partnering Strategy Team Shares Its First Draft for Better Community Outreach and Partnerships
By Saybin Roberson, Contributing Writer
Published December 17, 2020
KeAndra Cylear-Dodds, Metro’s Executive Office of Equity and Race (Courtesy photo)
Since last year, Los Angeles Metro has worked to enhance, reconnect and deepen its relationship with Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) with goals of aligning and coordinating Metro’s current partnerships and to create a structure for the future. This past Friday, December 10, 2020, Metro’s CBO hosted a virtual meeting to discuss the strategy and recommendations with community leaders across Los Angeles.
As stated in the draft, “The CBO Strategy establishes clear and consistent parameters for Metro to continue partnering with CBOs, as appropriate, by formalizing partnership structures and developing mutually beneficial, equity-focused relationships that bring real and tangible benefits to the Agency, CBOs, and Los
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, ignited by the outbreak of the novel Coronaviirus, the national response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic in Malawi appeared to be on the edge due to uncertainties that followed the lockdown approach as practised by initial countries that faced the pandemic.
Covid-19 Frontline Healthcare Workers (left to right) Ephraim Chisunkha, Duncan Banda, Nyembezi Gausi, Thom Chigeda, Virginia Phiri and Chisomo Kankhwali captured at Bwaila District Hospital Lilongwe 4. Photos by Edward Kabuye, Unicef
The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a pandemic on 11 March 2020. This was a few months after the outbreak of the Coronal Virus in Wuhan, Hubei Province in the People’s Republic of China.
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