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July 2014 New Resources: India: Managing Menstrual Hygiene (new video from WSSCC and United Nations TV, 5 minutes) Many Hands: Harmonising Capacity, Knowledge and Documentation in Sanitation and Hygiene Advocacy, communications and monitoring of WASH commitments - WSSCC Benin Workshop Report Africa Water Week Business Forum Final Report 2014 Sanitation and Water for All Commitments WSSCC Jobs & Opportunities: Knowledge Management Officer, Global Sanitation Fund (P3), Application deadline 27 July 2014 Senior Advocacy and Communication Advisor. Application deadline 3 August 2014 Community of Practice: Join the independent platform for sanitation and hygiene knowledge sharing   Latest News ·          Madagascar leads the way to become open defecation free ·          Starting the conversation in West and Central Africa - WSSCC and UN Women break the silence on menstruation ·     ...

May 2014 New Resources: Fact Sheets on Post-2015 WASH Targets and Indicators IFH Home Hygiene in Developing Countries Puberty Education and Menstrual Hygiene Management Women taking the lead in transforming community sanitation Violence, Gender and WASH Toolkit Global Sanitation Fund - Nepal WSSCC Jobs & Opportunities Sr. Officer Research and Policy Analysis Policy Advocacy Media and Communications Officer Sr. Officer Country Engagement, Coordination and Membership Senior Programme Officer, Global Advocacy   Latest News ·          Capacity, knowledge and documentation in sanitation and hygiene – calling for harmonisation and coordination ·          New grant opportunity on impact evaluation in sanitation ·          Watch live on 28 May: UN breaks the silence on open defecation! ·          WSSCC supports Kenya's First ...

        IUFRO Spotlight is an initiative of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations. Its aim is to introduce, in a timely fashion, significant findings in forest research from IUFRO officeholders and member organizations to a worldwide network of decision makers, policy makers and researchers. IUFRO will encapsulate, and distribute in plain language, brief, topical and policy-relevant highlights of those findings, along with information on where/how to access the full documents. The IUFRO Spotlight findings will be distributed in a periodic series of emails as well as blog postings.     Eucalyptus genome successfully sequenced PDF for download With a result that offers major potential for the forest industry, an international team of researchers has successfully sequenced and analyzed the genome of Eucalyptus grandis . "Now that we understand which genes determine specific characteristics in these trees, we will be able to breed tree...

  July 25, 2014       Like us   Follow us   If you would like to stop receiving the Connect4Climate newsletter, please click  here to unsubscribe .   Youth climate stories featured in Times Square   Connect4Climate has partnered with MTV Voices to celebrate youth climate action documentaries, exhibiting a 30 second compilation of Action4Climate competition submissions on two massive Broadway displays on Times Square. From 22 July until 29 July 2014, the youth stories will be presented on LED displays that are positioned in the heart of Times Square at 1515 Broadway. See the stories and share your own #Action4Climate.   Action4Climate stories mapped After the Action4Climate competition closed on April 1, the Connect4Climate team was thrilled to realize that Action4Climate received more than 230 entries from 70 countries - and every inhabited continent in the world. With such diverse stories, we wanted to make an interactive map to showcas...