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On 21 June, SID co-organized, together with other civil society partners, a side event to the 56th session of the Human Rights Council. Panelists discussed a new report analyzing civil society engagement in UN fora, and proposed ways forward to promote the protagonism of people and grassroots organizations.
The Youth Dialogue on Sustainable Energy Futures for Namibia, hosted by Society for International Development in collaboration with Namibia Youth Energy Forum, was held on 5 July. This event provided a platform for young Namibians to reflect on the current energy landscape and strategize their involvement in shaping Namibia's energy future.
This context paper describes Tanzania’s energy mix today, and the energy choices facing its society.
On Monday 22 July 2024, SID, in partnership with Heinrich Boll Foundation, hosted the Sustainable Energy Futures Project public virtual workshop under the theme ‘Energy Policy & Dilemmas of a Just Transition'.
Kenya has overtime formulated and effected a number of policies to govern the energy sector which laid foundation for separation of generation from transmission and distribution in the electricity sub-sectors. The REFiT policy was one of the policies formulated as an instrument to promote investment and generation of electricity from renewable sources.
For the World Bank’s 2024 Land Conference, SID joins organizations of small-scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples, workers, grassroots communities, and civil society to denounce the World Bank as a major actor of land grabbing and ecosystem destruction. We call for effective measures to realize the right to land and territories, including agrarian reform.
We are currently seeking a highly motivated Senior Programme Officer for our Agroecology, Food Justice & Sovereignty Programme. The successful candidate will drive rights-based engagement and advocacy on food governance, sovereignty, and agroecology.
From April 22 to 25 2024, SID’s Economic Justice team participated at the UN Financing for Development Forum held at the UN Headquarters in New York. This annual forum is crucial as it is an intergovernmental process with universal participation mandated to review the Addis Agenda.