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The Internet Policy Analyst (IPA) project is a grassroots initiative featured in a new section of Internet Governance Program (IGMENA) website www.igmena.org. The project is lead by a new generation of authors from the MENA region who will report current developments specific to Internet policy and governance in their respective countries. The ongoing uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa have unsettled the social and political situation in what was already a fragile region. There is an urgent need to circumvent the constraints that young people face when utilizing the Internet and enlighten the wider Internet governance audience on how to think analytically about local Internet issues from the grassroots. This can be done by assembling evidence, facts and write-ups and communicating a better advocacy strategy. The project will initially cover five countries: Syria, Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan and Iraq and will expand at a later stage to include more countries from the region. Other authors who would like to publish their research on this theme or would like to investigate a specific topic are encouraged to join this initiative. The Internet Policy Analysis initiative is designed to meet the increasing demand and expertise on Internet Governance and policy in the MENA region specifically on issues such as freedom of expression, data protection and privacy, censorship and surveillance. The intention is to expand to other relevant themes to the Middle East in the future. Freedom of expression and the free flow of information are essential to democratic societies. The (IPA) represents a unique form of progressive activism that empowers authors as leaders to promote their ideas and source a focused youth-led opinion as part of the wider Internet mandate in MENA region beyond an arena for dialogue, collaboration and online action-research. Hivos Programme Internet Governance (IGMENA) is taking the lead in bringing civil society voices together to enhance the knowledge and advocacy for better policies and meet the vital interest to harness freedom of expression and freedom of information at a time of major changes with a substantial youth engagement in the policy process who aspire to make the Internet in the Middle East and North African region an unrivaled space for free speech, civic participation, innovation and opportunity.

I am designing and building a rural aqueduct for a mountain community in the province of Bocas del Toro, Panama. I'm working alongside villagers. I enable them to take on positions of leadership throughout the project, and they enable me to organize the villagers for the hard work of building an aqueduct.

The school of Tourism Natural Resource Management of Maasai Mara University is implementing a tree planting project as part of the it?s environmental sustainability programme. Close to 700 tree seedlings were planted in January 2015 at 3 different sites within the main campus grounds. Following an assessment by a team from the school a recommendation was made to allocate these seedlings for maintenance to TNRM students. The Narok County where the Maasai Mara University is situated is generally an arid and semi-arid zone. The community largely has no culture of planting and maintaining trees. Pressure on the established pastoralism is forcing many to resort to alternative livelihoods such as charcoal burning. Proximity to Nairobi has ensured a constant reliable market for the charcoal. However, there is no planting to replace the ones cut down. This has led to degraded lands, impoverished soils and bare lands. In an attempt to control this wanton environmental degradation, the school of tourism and natural resources is undertaking a sustainability agenda in the University, with a view to extending it to the entire Narok County, and to the neighbouring Tanzania where the community shares a boundary.

The ?I am a girl, I build my future? campaign aims to support Central American girls to reclaim selfworth and participation in leadership roles, through self-esteem and creative workshops and contests in which girls from public schools will learn tools to affirm themselves and create wearable positive messages to reinforce what they learned.