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Kathmandu, Nepal – April 16, 2024 – The Foresight Partnership Forum and Training, organized by the CGIAR Initiative on Foresight and the Institute for Integrated Development Studies (IIDS), kicked off today in Kathmandu, Nepal. The four-day event brings together key Initiative partners from across Asia, Africa, and Latin America to share insights on the multifaceted challenges affecting food, land, and

Since September 2022, the government of Kenya has been implementing policy measures under its “Bottom-Up Transformation Agenda (BETA)”. Alongside measures aimed at promoting economic recovery and improving livelihoods, the government is also redesigning revenue mobilization instruments geared towards fiscal consolidation and supporting economic growth. These interventions have already yielded some progress. For example, the latest GDP report indicates that Kenya’s

If you’ve missed any of our monthly NEXUS Gains Talks, you can now stream all talks from 2024 as podcasts or download them to listen to on the go. Check back to download the next episode or join our mailing list to register for our monthly live webinars. Webinars from 2022 and 2023 are also available to watch on the

The following excerpt is from a post by Roli Srivastava, a journalist at The Migration Story, originally published on https://www.themigrationstory.com/thegreatwallofsurajpura Surajpura, Rajasthan: The villagers of Surajpura in Rajasthan have built a wall: a 15-feet mud bulwark that snakes through vast barren land for nearly a mile, with an equally long trench dug painstakingly beneath it. The soil even today appears loose

By Tiruwork Arega and Dr Claudia Ringler Universal access to affordable clean energy is a global challenge. Access to clean energy services and green technologies by women and marginalized groups remains constrained by their social positions and gender norms as well as by gender-blind energy policies and institutions. The cost to women’s well-being and rural economic growth from these inequities

By Dr Claudia Ringler In Ethiopia, key uptake partners are making use of research carried out by the CGIAR Initiative on NEXUS Gains in driving the country’s rural energy transformation. Several representatives joined the Initiative in February 2023 at a NEXUS Gains outreach event on “Strengthening women’s access to rural energy sources and technologies: A research for development .” Initiative

Join us as we journey to Nigeria, to explore how policy coherence can tackle sustainable development challenges in Africa’s economic giant. Sustainable Development challenges.  Come with us to Nigeria where we will be delving into the intricacies of policy coherence in one of Africa’s most dynamic economies. With a population of over 200 million people Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country, home

By Buyani Fakudze and Jonathan Lautze The Incomati Basin spans Eswatini, Mozambique, and South Africa. With growing demand for water from the energy and agriculture sectors, as well as increasing threats posed by climate change, the need for effective and integrated transboundary resource management is greater than ever. In 2023, a comprehensive river basin systems model was developed to address issues around