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In October 2020, START joined with partners spread over six different countries and using three languages (French, Bambara and English) for the official launch meeting of the Collaboration For Adaptation and Resilience in Mali (Co-FARM) project. The virtual meeting brought…

Two new Climate Advisory Resource Centers (CARCs) have been completed in Ghana’s Upper West Region as part of the Digital Agricultural Services to Improve the Livelihoods of Communities (DigitAL) program, an IDRC supported project led by the University of Ghana…

On September 28, 2020, the Southeast Asia START Regional Center (SEA-START) together with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), and the Office of the Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning (ONEP), Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Thailand, organized…

The first season of the STARTcast, our new podcast for early- and mid-career scientists, focuses on scientific proposal writing.   Each week, a new guest speaker will explore proposal writing from a different perspective. Tune in on Tuesdays for more content!…

START carried out an anonymous web-based survey in May-June 2020 to better understand how Covid-19 is affecting the workplace. The results of this survey offer insight into how individuals have been impacted by the Covid outbreak, the measures they have…

START and GenderInSITE are excited to announce our upcoming Webinar on African Women and Science Leadership that will take place on October 29, 2020 at 1:00 pm UTC. The first webinar will feature the 2018 GenderInSITE report, “Pathways to Success:…

The recordings of the webinar organized by ICLEI Africa and the EPIC (Educational Partnerships for Innovation in Communities) Network to present the EPIC model are now available on YouTube. Moderated by START’s Mzime Ndebele-Murisa, the webinar featured speakers including Gilbert…

Are you a university or municipality that’s looking to build climate-resilience in your local city?   The EPIC model has a proven track record of increasing climate-resilience and sustainability by forming key partnerships between city officials and local universities.    …

ICLEI will convene partners from the Future Resilience for African Cities (FRACTAL) project and the Educational Partnerships for Innovation in Communities – Network (EPIC-N) to discuss models and approaches that build a legacy of partnerships at local level, striving to…

Researchers and practitioners working within the climate change adaptation and sustainability space have now the opportunity to network, share their work and exchange knowledge through a new app developed by the Digital Agricultural Services to Improve the Livelihoods of Communities…