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Over the next three years, farmers and rural communities will receive support to build stronger, more resilient farming livelihoods, despite the most challenging conditions of Sudan’s Gedarif, Kassala and North Darfur regions. Our projects – one resuming after interruption, and one new – will particularly focus on supporting women and young people from agricultural households with vocational training and access to financial opportunities. From this, families will be better equipped to build stable lives and livelihoods.

Climate risks are escalating around the world. Now new hazards like heat are adding new forms of death and destruction. Simply cutting greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to our new climate is no longer an option. Many of the losses and damages that we see today are sadly now unavoidable. With loss and damage now such a big deal, we think it’s important that developing countries especially those most impacted include it in their country climate plans.

Every year, Earth Day reminds us that small actions can create big change. This year’s theme, Our Power, Our Planet, highlights the role of renewable energy in building a better future. For Jecintha Maina in Kenya, renewable energy is her passion and her career. She’s helping families switch to cleaner cooking and lighting solutions, proving that sustainable energy can transform lives.

Sudden cuts to the USAID budget mean thousands of people affected by civil war and climate change are not receiving the support they have been promised. At the time of writing, a programme in Sudan supporting displaced people and farming families by improving food production and bringing clean water to villages hosting thousands of internally displaced people is on hold.

Preparations made by dozens of communities in the Bolivian Amazon region have helped families in flood-affected areas cope with heavy rains.

Hundreds of people in communities that work with Practical Action in the Amazonas region of Bolivia have lost crops and their livelihoods in devastating floods. Heavy rains throughout March have raised rivers to dangerous levels, inundating remote Tacana communities living in the area.

685 million people worldwide lack access to electricity. Most live in rural and other hard-to-reach areas in countries highly vulnerable to climate change.

A teacher, leader, and the first woman to serve as waisam (vice-president in Awajun) of the Awajun Autonomous Territorial Government (GTAA), Matut Impi is championing the role of women in indigenous governance and decision-making.

Practical Action operates in places where sudden, unexpected social, political and environmental upheaval is not unusual. Natural hazards, conflict, politics and poverty often combine to make conditions for our staff incredibly difficult.