Networked Intelligence for Development

Completing a week of stakeholder consultations in St. Kitts and Nevis. Stark contrasts between the city core outside the tourist enclaves.... this is not sustainable, not equitable and no doubt a contributory fact to despondency, rage, 'mental angst'........

Rahaman-Noronha! Very Proud of one of NID's Associates: homes built with clay, grass, plastic and glass: How a Caribbean island is shying away from concrete - https://networkedintelligence.com/about/

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/nov/06/indigenous-afro-descendant-women-play-outsized-role-in-protecting-nature-we-must-support-them

In an era of environmental crises, women closest to the destruction must be heard | Omaira Bolaños My mother showed me the importance of Indigenous and Afro-descendant women in protecting the natural world. Yet they continue to face barriers and discrimination in their work

The northeastern African country of Sudan is 500 days into a brutal civil war that has seen tens of thousands killed, millions displaced and famine looming over everything. Little global attention is being paid to the conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, and there are few signs the situation will get any better.

The biggest concern: An estimated 25.6 million people — more than half of Sudan's pre-war population — are at risk of acute hunger, according to the UN's World Food Program. The heads of three humanitarian organizations said the international community's "silence is deafening," and warned Tuesday that the people of Sudan were facing a "crisis unmatched in decades." A UN humanitarian response plan is only 41 per cent funded.

"Now perhaps we can expect to hold Canada to the same principles and legislation in its relations, actions and transparency overseas".

https://davidsuzuki.org/press/senate-passes-long-awaited-legislation-to-tackle-environmental-racism-in-canada/ The Environmental Justice Strategy Act will require the government to examine the links between racialization, socio-economic status and environmental risk, and develop Canada’s first national strategy on environmental racism and environmental justice.

Until the governance & distribution system tips, we can bank on growing inequities of resource and power. It will take a mad maverick to break all the rules all at once.

75.9 million people were internally displaced across 116 countries at the end of 2023, according to the Global Report on Internal Displacement. This figure is the highest on record and an increase of 51 percent in just five years ... the result of both new escalations of conflict as well as natural disasters, forcing millions to flee and to add to the tens of millions already living in displacement from earlier events. This pattern is expected to continue to rise in the coming years. (Source: Statistica)

https://youtu.be/UT7B4wVfxmI?si=1svaFKg69A5yflD0

Gender relations + sustainable agriculture = resilience.... still Fronts for Action, and now with Meta Data and IT-learning systems, pushing for a ground swell.

Working with men and women for climate-smart agriculture in Tajikistan – Nidhi Tandon www.fao.org/in-action/micca/Nidhi Tandon introduced her experience assessing a pilot project on Climate Resilience (PPCR) in Tajikistan, noting gendered dime...

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/2/12/famine-looms-in-sudan

Famine looms in Sudan As war continues unabated in Sudan, an acute food emergency could kill hundreds of thousands of people by next year.

https://ubc.go.ug/president-museveni-asks-africa-to-unite-against-semi-slave-pricing-of-raw-materials-by-the-west/