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christy owen, Senior Lead Specialist, Climate, Land, and Natural Resources

Tags: climate, environment

1 day ago | 9 min read

Q&A: Establishing Domestic Carbon Markets in Vietnam

Christy Owen talks with Abraham Guillen and Nga Dang from USAID’s Sustainable Forest Management project in Vietnam about their work supporting the development of a regulatory framework for the forestry sector to participate in a carbon compliance market due to open in 2028.

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sousa licumba

11 days ago | 6 min read

Q&A with Public Finance Expert Nádia Hassamo: An Inside Look at Mozambique’s Path to Development

The Supporting the Enabling Environment for Development (SPEED) project collaborates with Mozambique's Ministry of Economy and Finance and various civil society groups to enhance public financial management practices and systems.

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christy owen, Senior Lead Specialist, Climate, Land, and Natural Resources

24 days ago | 8 min read

Q&A: Developing High-Quality, Nature-Based Solutions for Carbon Removal

Barry Flaming, DAI’s Senior Technical Advisor on Climate, Natural Resources, and Private Sector Engagement, talks with Christy Owen about his work supporting a global buy-in program to assess opportunities for developing carbon removal projects.

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How Increasing Tax Revenue Shapes the Lives of Salvadorans

DAI’s 35-year record of development partnership in El Salvador features projects related to the environment, education, and governance, and includes nearly 20 consecutive years of support for fiscal and public financial management reform. 

eunice heredia ortiz

8 min read

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Driving Job Creation in the West Bank through Development Impact Bonds

The West Bank needs more employment opportunities to accommodate its growing population, but many companies have been cut off from direct market contact and cannot find financing, limiting their ability to compete, grow, and add jobs.

mazan asad

4 min read

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Making Inroads on “Learning Poverty” in Nigeria

Three years into the U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s Partnership for Learning for All in Nigeria (PLANE), we are beginning to see encouraging results in the project's efforts to tackle some of the root causes of learning poverty.

chinwendu ojogwu

6 min read

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What About the Workforce? Priorities for the Energy Transition

In 2019, there were roughly 65 million energy jobs worldwide. What happens to the workers and communities displaced by the green energy transition? What kind of workforce do we need if we are to bring about this transition as quickly as possible? And how do we make it as fair as possible?

jeanne ellis, jane clifford

8 min read

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Empowering Women to Push Acceptance of Proper Menstrual Hygiene in Rural Nepal

Menstruation remains a deeply stigmatized and taboo topic in western rural Nepal. Further efforts in community collaboration and capacity building are needed if we are to keep rural Nepal's menstrual hygiene narrative moving in the right direction.

ramesh dhakal

8 min read

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Q&A with Expert Nadya Boneva: How Cities Can Be Engines of the Sustainable Energy Transition

We spoke with DAI's Nadya Boneva about her work to advance sustainable energy solutions, particularly by facilitating donor collaboration and helping cities champion climate change adaptation. 

georgia iordanescu, jane clifford

8 min read

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