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  • Ningaloo: a model for reef management with a localized action plan

    Tue, March 28, 2023

    Environmental Resilience

    The Ningaloo community has reached a pivotal point in their efforts to address the impacts of climate change on their reef. With the introduction of a comprehensive action plan under the Ningaloo Resilience Strategy, reef managers and community members are now equipped with the tools needed to build climate resilience and implement solutions at a local level.

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  • 3 Projects empowering women through education

    Wed, March 8, 2023

    Chile program

    Three evidence-based projects in Chile are helping to close the gender gap with universal, high-quality education and digital training.

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  • “Yes, you can get ahead as a woman”

    Wed, February 22, 2023

    Education Equity

    Women’s employment is crucial for economic autonomy, as well as strengthening national economies and fostering gender equality. This is why the UN Women Second Chance Education Program is supporting women like Catalina, Denisse and Maria in their journey to security and success.

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  • Grant to boost systemic change in education

    Thu, February 16, 2023

    Education Equity

    A leading policy center, and long-standing BHP Foundation grantee, has received a multi-million dollar grant to boost collaborative action to transform global education ecosystems. The Brookings Institution announced its Center for Universal Education (CUE) in the Global Economy and Development program received US$24 million from LEGO Foundation, the largest grant in Brookings' century-long history.

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  • Public school teachers in Chile receive computer science training

    Mon, January 30, 2023

    Chile program

    More than 130 teachers at public schools across Chile have graduated from a training program designed to boost computer science proficiency in the classroom. With less than 1 per cent of public school students in Chile achieving advanced levels of digital proficiency, Fundación Kodea and BHP Foundation developed a project, IdeoDigital, to train and empower teachers to introduce computer science classes.

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  • Empowering women to learn, earn and lead

    Tue, January 24, 2023

    Education Equity

    UN Women’s Second Chance Education program trains vulnerable, internally displaced women and young women in poultry farming in Cameroon. This approach is supporting women in crisis, offering adaptive pathways to achieve agency, resilience economic empowerment, and leadership.

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  • Monitoring pandemic impacts on education in Chile

    Wed, January 11, 2023

    Chile program

    A new Chilean-wide National Survey of Educational Monitoring is uncovering the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on education in Chile.

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  • Indigenous led conservation showcased at landmark biodiversity conference

    Thu, December 15, 2022

    Environmental Resilience

    Government representatives from around the world are expected to decide a new global framework to address the world’s biodiversity crisis at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal, Canada, from 7-19 December. Partners of the BHP Foundation Environmental Resilience Program attended the landmark conference to share experiences from projects that take a community and culture first approach to conservation activities to create enduring, resilient ecosystems.

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  • Challenging corruption with global, clever and nimble responses

    Tue, December 6, 2022

    Natural Resource Governance

    Citizens of resource-rich countries have a right to benefit from the wealth generated by extraction of their natural resources. But as the world looks to decarbonize, quickly, how do we ensure short cuts to access cobalt, nickel, and rare earth elements, which more than half of the world’s reserves exist in countries with high levels of corruption, don’t short-change the countries and communities providing these resources?

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  • Proposals open for Measurement, Learning and Evaluation program partner

    Thu, December 1, 2022

    Canada program

    We are looking for a Measurement, Learning and Evaluation partner to support our country-level programs in the US and Canada.

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