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Marine Litter Guidebook Tables

These tables accompany the Clean Cities, Blue Ocean Marine Litter Audit Guidebook Read More

Marine Litter Audit Guidebook

Clean Cities, Blue Ocean’s Marine Litter Audit Guidebook provides practical guidance on measuring the rate, extent, and composition of litter that is intentionally deposited on, or washes onto, a beach area to measure the extent and impacts of marine litter on beach-front areas in communities. Read More

Street Litter Audit Guidebook Tables

These tables accompany the Clean Cities, Blue Ocean Street Litter Audit Guidebook. Read More

Street Litter Audit Guidebook

Clean Cities, Blue Ocean’s Street Litter Audit Guidebook provides practical guidance on conducting street litter audits—a standardized approach to measuring the extent and impacts of litter on city streets and walkways to help to understand the extent of the litter problem in communities. Read More

Changing the Way We Move: A Win-Win for Climate and Development

As cities around the world continue to grow and congestion and pollution continue to increase, this blog post is intended to promote sustainable transport modes as a climate and development solution.

Investing in Waste Management and Recycling with a Gender Lens

This guide offers a business case, framework, examples, case studies, and tools that can help commercial and impact investors in the waste management and recycling sector to integrate a gender lens in their activities. Read More

Program for Local and Urban Sustainability (PLUS): A Field Support Mechanism to Advance Integrated Urban Programming

The Bureau for Development, Democracy, and Innovation (DDI) is pleased to announce that the new Program for Local and Urban Sustainability (PLUS), a global field support mechanism, is now available for Mission buy-in. The PLUS program provides a range of programming options that will help USAID partner countries develop more… Read More

Green Cities Podcast Series

In this three-part podcast series, we explore the role sustainable and inclusive urbanization can play in addressing multiple USAID priorities like air quality, water resources, ocean plastics, gender equality, climate change, urban resilience, biodiversity, and economic growth. Read More

Short-Lived Climate Pollutants & USAID’s Climate Strategy: Achieving Fast Mitigation

This guide identifies possible SLCP actions that can be taken across key sectors and USAID regions for advancing development and climate goals. Read More

Save Our Seas Initiative Launch Event

USAID launched the Save Our Seas Initiative on June 22, 2022 from 4:30 – 5:30 pm. This event was co-hosted by United States Senators the Honorable Dan Sullivan and the Honorable Sheldon Whitehouse. Watch the event livestream recording Ocean plastic pollution has reached crisis level: every minute, more… Read More