Fondo de Acceso Sostenible a Energía Renovable y a Tecnologías eficientes (FASERTe) Bolivia: documento base

El Fondo de Acceso Sostenible a Energía Renovable y Tecnologías eficientes, abreviado como FASERTe, tiene como objetivo general " Dinamizar el acceso a tecnologías de energías renovables y de eficiencia energética (TERe), a través de la creación del Fondo de Acceso Sostenible a Energía Renovable y Tecnologías eficientes (FASERTe) con especial énfasis en mujeres y jóvenes, contribuyendo a la mitigación de los efectos del cambio climático en Bolivia”. Asimismo, se proponen dos objetivos específicos: _Fortalecer las capacidades técnicas de la oferta y la demanda para acceder a las TERe, para uso en hogares, infraestructura social / comunitaria y usos productivos. _Fortalecer la capacidad financiera de la oferta y la demanda para acceder a las TERe para uso en hogares, infraestructura social / comunitaria y usos productivos

Ayuda Memoria Necesidades y soluciones para la imlementación de servicios energéticos en instituciones públicas y privadas Posibilidades para el FASERT

Presenta los principales hallazgos y resultados de los Talleres participativos, auspiciados por FASERT, a fin de conocer las necesidades de asistencia técnica y posibles soluciones que se vislumbran para el escalamiento de los programas sociales del sector público, desde la óptica los diversos actores involucrados

Dinamizando el mercado de energía renobable térmica para incrementar los ingresos y mejorar la calidad de vida de los pobladores del Perú

El material presenta algunas estadísticas para contextualizar la situación en Perú y sus logros en cuanto a los proyecto que encentivan la energía renovable, además de una breve introducción a intentificar la tecnología para generar fuente renobable térmica.Presents statistics to contextualize the situation in Peru and its achievements projects that encourage renewable energy, as well as a brief introduction to trying the technology to generate renewable thermal sources

Religion in der feministischen Entwicklungsarbeit. Zur Zusammenarbeit mit religiösen Akteur*innen für Geschlechtergerechtigkeit.

Winkel H. Religion in der feministischen Entwicklungsarbeit. Zur Zusammenarbeit mit religiösen Akteur*innen für Geschlechtergerechtigkeit. In: GIZ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, ed. Religion in der feministischen Entwicklungsarbeit. Zur Zusammenarbeit mit religiösen Akteur*innen für Geschlechtergerechtigkeit. Bonn: GIZ im Auftrag des BMZ; 2023

Transport emissions in Beijing: A scenario planning approach

This paper explores and analyses how to reduce smog-related air pollutants and carbon dioxide emissions generated by passenger transport systems in Beijing. In-depth surveys with experts and practitioners in China are used to examine the current business-as-usual projection for emissions in Beijing, the drivers and trends affecting current projections, and to develop alternative scenarios that might help reduce projected emissions significantly. These are based around different variants of population and migration growth and environmental stewardship. Current levels of smog caused by transport emissions are much higher in Beijing than internationally accepted safety standards, partly because of high levels of motorised traffic. Carbon dioxide emissions always tend to be overlooked because economic growth is prioritised. The sustainable model represents one of the best models for Beijing to follow; however, Beijing faces major challenges in becoming more environmentally sustainable over the next few years, mainly due to population growth and increased migration, even if there is powerful top-down government environmental stewardship. The aspiration to reduce smog-related air pollutants and carbon dioxide emissions in Beijing by implementing sustainable transport mitigation measures seems very ambitious; however, it is perhaps in this context that the real innovations in transport planning will emerge

I will not go, I cannot go: cultural and social limitations of disaster preparedness in Asia, Africa, and Oceania

While much work has been invested in addressing the economic and technical basis of disaster preparedness, less effort has been directed towards understanding the cultural and social obstacles to and opportunities for disaster risk reduction. This paper presents local insights from five different national settings into the cultural and social contexts of disaster preparedness. In most cases, an early warning system was in place, but it failed to alert people to diverse environmental shocks. The research findings show that despite geographical and typological differences in these locations, the limitations of the systems were fairly similar. In Kenya, people received warnings, but from contradictory systems, whereas in the Philippines and on the island of Saipan, people did not understand the messages or take them seriously. In Bangladesh and Nepal, however, a deeper cultural and religious reasoning serves to explain disasters, and how to prevent them or find safety when they strike

Re-conceptualising VET: responses to covid-19

The paper addresses the impact of Covid-19 on vocational education and training, seeking to discern the outline of possible directions for its future development within the debates about VET responses to the pandemic. The discussion is set in its socio-economic context, considering debates that engage with the social relations of care and neo-liberalism. The paper analyses discourses that have developed around VET across the world during the pandemic, illustrating both possible continuities and ruptures that may emerge in this field, as the health crisis becomes overshadowed in public policy by the prioritisation of economic recovery and social restoration. The paper concludes that, alongside the possibility of a narrowing of VET to its most prosaic aims and practices, the health crisis could also lead to a re-conceptualisation that develops its radical and emancipatory possibilities in both the global south and north.N/

Examples of holistic good practices in promoting and protecting mental health in the workplace: current and future challenges

Background: While attention has been paid to physical risks in the work environment and the promotion of individual employee health, mental health protection and promotion have received much less focus. Psychosocial risk management has not yet been fully incorporated in such efforts. This paper presents good practices in promoting mental health in the workplace in line with World Health Organization (WHO) guidance by identifying barriers, opportunities, and the way forward in this area. Methods: Semistructured interviews were conducted with 17 experts who were selected on the basis of their knowledge and expertise in relation to good practice identified tools. Interviewees were asked to evaluate the approaches on the basis of the WHO model for healthy workplaces. Results: The examples of good practice for Workplace Mental Health Promotion (WMHP) are in line with the principles and the five keys of the WHO model. They support the third objective of the WHO comprehensive mental health action plan 2013e2020 for multisectoral implementation of WMHP strategies. Examples of good practice include the engagement of all stakeholders and representatives, science-driven practice, dissemination of good practice, continual improvement, and evaluation. Actions to inform policies/legislation, promote education on psychosocial risks, and provide better evidence were suggested for higher WMHP success. Conclusion: The study identified commonalities in good practice approaches in different countries and stressed the importance of a strong policy and enforcement framework as well as organizational responsibility for WMHP. For progress to be achieved in this area, a holistic and multidisciplinary approach was unanimously suggested as a way to successful implementation

EUROPEANIZATION OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN THE EASTERN NEIGHBOURHOOD THROUGH THE APPLICATION OF EU INSTRUMENTS

Abstract: While much has been written about the European Union, most of the scholarly work is related to the developments only at the Union level. To address this deficit, this article is eminently concerned with the European Union’s relationship in its near Eastern Peripheries. The research places its emphasis on the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy and studies its efforts in fostering Europeanization of conflict resolution, as one of the crucial aspects of EU foreign policy setting. In order to arrive at a general understanding of the domestic impact of the European external conflict resolution pattern, the article foremost applies legal scrutiny of the EU’s involvement in peaceful resolving the secessionist Georgian-Abkhaz conflict via scrutinizing the EU-brokered instruments (EUMM) deployed in the region. The article also discusses the existing challenges posing to the EU’s engagement in the conflict as well as the Union’s potential of becoming more efficient in overall dispute resolution scheme

Ecosystems-based adaptation: Are we being conned? Evidence from Mexico

This paper scrutinises claims made about the promise and efficacy of ecosystems-based adaptation (EBA), through an exploration of EBA-relevant interventions in two fieldsites in Mexico. Our data starts to fill important gaps in current global debates about EBA. We find evidence of the important contribution of interventions relevant to EBA objectives at a small scale and under very specific conditions. However, the viability of similar interventions is substantially reduced, and arguably rendered null, as an incentive for conservation in a more populous fieldsites. Furthermore, evidence suggests that other adaptation options risked being overlooked if the context were viewed solely through the lens of EBA. We conclude that EBA needs to: a) engage with and address the trade-offs which characterised earlier attempts to integrate conservation and development, and; b) acknowledge the implications for its objectives of a globally predominant, neoliberal political economy