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	Enhancing Environmental Equality: Addressing Gender-Based Violence December 8, 2020 The most vulnerable communities and people often rely the most on the environment for food, jobs, and security. USAID is working to empower these groups and to support their roles as environmental decision-makers.
	USAID partners recognized at Environmental Finance Impact Awards 2020 October 29, 2020 Two members of USAID’s Partnership Platform for the Amazon have won prizes in the specialized media Environmental Finance IMPACT 2020 Awards.
	An Unprecedented Encounter and Exchange Between Indigenous Cultures to Enhance Biodiversity Conservation September 11, 2020 In Colombia, USAID’s Natural Wealth Program brought two indigenous communities together for the first time to discuss the recovery of indigenous knowledge and approaches to territorial governance.
	Women in the wild: Meet the female ecoguards protecting Liberia’s forests July 17, 2020 At a recruitment and training program for community ecoguard candidates in 2018, 16 out of the 20 participants were women. Today, these women have contributed to protecting the rich resources of the Grebo-Krahn National Park.
	Tipping the Scales: Adopting fair trade fishing practices in Indonesia March 18, 2020 Sarno Lajiwa leads a fishers' association participating in a USAID program that advances fair trade in Indonesia. USAID is introducing new income opportunities that allow people to move toward improved stewardship of their fisheries.
	Foreign Service National Spotlight: Monica Romo December 9, 2019 As a child in Peru, Monica Romo traveled throughout the country, visiting coastal provinces in the west and seeing the Andes mountain range. Then, in high school, she visited the Amazon region for the first time and found her future career direction.
	Peace, Security, and Conservation on Central Africa’s Radios November 13, 2019 In northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and eastern Central African Republic (CAR), high-frequency radios are helping to cultivate peace, security, and, more recently, conservation.
	Hope for Tigers in Bangladesh August 5, 2019 In Bangladesh’s Sundarbans—the world’s largest mangrove forest—every tiger counts. And a report from the country’s Forest Department recently revealed that the tiger count has increased by eight percent in three years.