🔥 Hot off the press: Gender-responsive Environmental Action Plans (GREAPs) in refugee settings – local leaders' perspectives on enhancing gender integration. This brief presents GREAPs for five different #refugee-hosting districts in #Uganda. Read more: 🔗

The Reducing Environmental Degradation in Refugee Context project hosted a workshop in Uganda to share lessons from 2021–2024 and promote dialogue on achieving Global Refugee Forum pledges for 2024–2027. Focus: 🌱 Grow 7.5M trees 🌍 Support 300,000+ livelihoods in resilient

Empowering communities with sustainable cooking solutions.🪵 This factsheet highlights how people-centered woodfuel and cleaner cooking innovations are transforming lives in drylands, making cooking safer for people and the environment. 🔗: https://t.co/2xNZnBTGaX #UKPACT

Gender plays a vital role in managing natural resources in #Uganda's refugee-hosting districts. This study explores women's participation & local leaders' capacity to integrate gender in environmental decision-making. Download➡️ https://t.co/0viEzUscwN #Trees4Resilience @EUinUG

We realise we can only #GofarGotogether by working in concert with our partners to enhance food security. Climate change is real! In @OfficialMakueni we are working with farmers through @CIFOR_ICRAF & other partners to reduce the devastating effects of climate change. Watch 👇

Mindre hälsofarlig matlagning i Kenya. Läs mer i AMM-bloggen den här veckan. Less dangerous cooking in Kenya. Read more in the AMM blog this week. Collaboration with @marynjeng and Andriy Rebryk. @regionost, @CIFOR_ICRAF and @umeauniversity https://t.co/6Go0vwPGQg

📚 From the CIFOR-ICRAF library In #refugee contexts, approaches to food insecurity should integrate cooking energy and give #women an opportunity to voice their needs and aspirations. Full publication:🔗 https://t.co/roSaLIINcK @marynjeng #TreesPeoplePlanet

Just concluded! Review of the @ACIARAustralia-supported project on Fruit Trees for Climate Adaptation in East Africa.🥑 The exercise provided a great opportunity to learn from project partners & beneficiaries in #Kenya and #Rwanda. Learn about project🔗 https://t.co/H5qf08eeTz

An innovative project, anchored on the reuse of greywater from kitchens, bathrooms, and community watering points, is changing the lives of #refugees and host communities in Kenya’s Kakuma and Kalobeyei settlements. Learn how:➡️ https://t.co/Ohdil8cMnH #WorldRefugeeDay

#Refugees need trees for their daily needs and a safe healthy environment. So do the communities that host them. Learn how we support tree growing in displacement settings in NW Uganda. ▶️: https://t.co/LqYjwJABZI #WorldRefugeeDay #TreesPeoplePlanet

This paper synthesises the challenges in environmental sustainability facing #refugee-hosting landscapes, on-going initiatives, & gaps. It also presents transformative science plans by @CIFOR_ICRAF to address existing gaps towards resilient landscapes. 👉 https://t.co/ASAkXh479U

"The region continues to endure impacts of devastating drought affecting 36 million people, including #refugees. There needs to be innovative ways of addressing climate risks and building community resilience, especially for women, girls, and children." ~ Anna Gaunt, @Refugees.

“#Restoration offers the promise to heal degraded landscapes, including those hosting #refugees - by increasing the resilience of populations that depend on natural resources.” ~ Susan Gardner, @UNEP #ResilientRefugees

“Refugees are often settled on very fragile landscapes, hence the need to build their resilience through appropriate nature-based solutions.” @marynjeng   #ResilientRefugees

📣 Happening today at the @CIFOR_ICRAF Nairobi Campus Workshop on Nature-based solutions for resilient refugee landscapes in Eastern Africa   @marynjeng @penn_state @IWMI_ @WolloUniversity @BiovIntCIAT_eng @drckenya @Refugees @UNHABITAT #ResilientRefugees #TreesPeoplePlanet

Kenyan environmentalist and activist Wanjira Mathai has been named among TIME Magazine’s top 100 Most Influential People in 2023. https://t.co/34WmqEGRZt

"When I initiate a project, I bring all my identities and influences with me, and I look for a diversity of team members who do the same. No one has all the answers by themselves." @CIFOR-@ICRAF research scientist @marynjeng #ThinkLandscape https://t.co/uu1HbQIspv

@ICRAF @CIFOR @marynjeng You are not "just a woman". 🙅‍♀️ You are a woman—a force 💪 to be reckoned with, a driver of change 👊 and, above all, the kind of hope 🙌 this world 🌍 needs!

"My motivation as a woman scientist is to create the change I want to see."🙌 For #IDWGS, @CIFOR-ICRAF scientist @marynjeng talks about what it means to be a #WomanInScience, and why women need to have equitable representation in the sector. Full Q&A ⤵️

Inspirational article here about our friend Dr. Mary Njenga who works tirelessly to advance sustainable forestry AND clean cooking solutions. #womeninscience @marynjeng @CIFOR @CharcoalProject https://t.co/l3UePoOF80