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Water Institute members receive funding from the Queen Elizabeth Scholars Program

Four Water Institute researchers were recently awarded funding from the Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Advanced Scholars Program to build institutional capacity in select Commonwealth countries to address linkages between climate change and water security.You can read more on The Water Institute's website.

A big congratulations to GoHelP's Stephanie Lu and the rest of the Wavelength Consulting team for earning a spot in the finals for the 2017 Student Evaluation Case Competition! Wavelength Consulting placed in the top 3 of 10 teams of students from universities and colleges across Canada that participated, winning them a trip to Vancouver to compete in the final round of competition at the 2017 CES Conference.

GoHelP's Stephanie Lu's article 'Empowering women and girls through evaluation of a small, water-based NGO' has been published in Ontario Council for International Cooperation's (OCIC) iAM-magazine. Stephanie Lu discusses how she is applying her monitoring and evaluation expertise, including gender-responsive approaches, to an organizational level evaluation of the small NGO, H2O 4 ALL.

Structural Inequalities Perpetuate Neglected Tropical Diseases

QEW scholar and GoHelP lab member Elizabeth Ochola and Dr. Susan Elliott are both featured this week in a story focusing on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), as a part of the series on the Sustainable Development Goals and the Faculty of Environment.

Thank-you DanaD (@decentword)!

Women Ambassadors in Menstrual Sanitation (WAMS) places 3rd at Velocity's World's Challenge Challenge

Sabrina Li and team addressed Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender Equality, with their solution focused on empowering women through menstrual hygiene management programs that combat the taboo associated with menstruation.

Save the Mothers is looking for 2 PROGRAM INTERNS for the 2017/18 academic year.

Congratulations to GoHelP's Stephanie Lu as she joins the all-star Student and Young Professionals Network (SYPN) Executive team at the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research (CCGHR)

The SYPN Executive team works to facilitate networking and capacity-building activities for the SYPN through CCGHR Student Chapters, conferences, and SYP blog. Stephanie is one of 8 Executive team members, including 4 other University of Waterloo students; Kristen Lee, Afnan Naeem, Nicola Toffelmire, and Gertrude Omoro.

Are you up for IDRC’s International Development Week 2017 challenge?

The IDRC is helping to celebrate International Development Week (IDW) from February 5–11, 2017, by testing your knowledge of global issues.

Susan Elliott is excited to be joining the International Geographical Union Commission on Health and the Environment (IGU CHE) as a Steering Committee Member.