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UNU-GEST is always excited to track down our alumni and catch up with them on their important work in their communities. Last year, UNU-GEST in collaboration with our alumni community drafted an alumni strategy, which sets out to create an international network of gender advocates, enabling them to share their knowledge, practices and support each other in the fight for gender equality worldwide. This year’s graduate, Kevin Ekechukwu Ogbajie from Nigeria, seems to have been busy since his graduation.

External Academic Relation Office at Birzeit University and UNU-GEST invite master's students to apply for a joint Erasmus+ and UNU-GEST fellowships to attend the 2018 Post-Graduate Diploma Programme in International Gender Studies at the University of Iceland. The programme will run from January 8 to May 24, 2018 in Reykjavík, Iceland.

Our June 2017 newsletter is full of news from our work over the last six months: 2017 graduation; activities of the graduates; snapshots from social media; our spring term lecture series; research on peacekeeping, small scale fisheries in Tanzania and on women in the geothermal sector; blog series; and alumni activities. Read more about it

On 19th June, a day is dedicated to women´s rights in Iceland, the Minister of Gender awarded grants from the Icelandic Gender Equality Fund. UNU-GEST received two grants, for the research-based project Gender Focused Value Chain Development of Aquaculture in Gaza Province, Mozambique, and for a short course to be held in Uganda on Gender and Climate Change. Dr. Pétur Waldorff and Erla Hlín Hjálmarsdóttir attended the ceremony as grant recipients.

A workshop bringing together more than 100 women energy entrepreneurs and experts in energy policy, financing and capacity building, opened yesterday in Libreville, Gabon. The two-day workshop titled Women Entrepreneurs and Sustainable Energy in Africa brings to light the role that women can play across the energy value chain to expand economic opportunities and alleviate energy poverty. UNU-GEST joined forces with UN Environment, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Iceland, UN Women and Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) in organizing the event alongside the Sixteenth Session of the African Ministerial Conference on Environment (AMCEN 16).