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Monitoring and Evaluation Job in Ethiopia about Agriculture, Coordination and Food and Nutrition, requiring 10+ years of experience, from IBTCI; closing on 11 Jun 2021

Communities within the Great Bay estuary watershed, which extends to more than 1,000 square miles, are coming together to improve its water quality.  The Great Bay lies at the junction of tidally driven salt water from the Gulf of Maine and fresh water from the Salmon Falls, Cocheco, Bellamy, Oyster, Lamprey, Squamscott, and Winnicut rivers. In recent years it has been at the center of a dispute over a permit to govern pollution control measures to move forward in improving water quality. Twelve communities discharge wastewater into areas that lead into the Great Bay. The nitrog...

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The Youth Technical Specialist provides programmatic expertise and technical acumen to the practice and business development process, as well as overall thought leadership. The incumbent ensures that projects are aligned with NCBA CLUSA’s principles and strategic priorities; oversees technical program design and quality control; provides overall integration of innovative ideas and evidence-based learning; and champions information exchange and learning across the organization. Specifically, this position provides cross-cutting support to all practice areas on youth engage...

Abstract Globally, collapse of ecosystems—potentially irreversible change to ecosystem structure, composition and function—imperils biodiversity, human health and well-being. We examine the current state and recent trajectories of 19 ecosystems, spanning 58° of latitude across 7.7 M km , from Australia's coral reefs to terrestrial Antarctica. Pressures from global climate change and regional human impacts, occurring as chronic ‘presses’ and/or acute ‘pulses’, drive ecosystem collapse. Ecosystem responses to 5–17 pressures were categorised as four collapse profiles—abrupt, smo...