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Endorse The CEO Water Mandate
Water poses one of the greatest sustainability challenges of the 21st Century. Water scarcity and pollution, among many other issues, threaten our ability to grow strong and stable economies, meet basic human needs, and protect healthy ecosystems (and the services they provide), while also posing... More
Join Caring for Climate
Caring for Climate is a voluntary and complementary action platform for UN Global Compact participants who seek to demonstrate leadership on the issue of climate change. It provides a framework for business leaders to advance practical solutions and help shape public policy as well as public... More
Urgent assistance needed for the emergency evacuation operations at the Libyan borders
IOM is deeply concerned at the fate of thousands of migrants fleeing severe violence in Libya and now stranded at the borders with Tunisia, Algeria, Niger, Chad, Sudan and Egypt. Concern grows over at least 6,000 migrants stranded in the Libyan city of Misrata in an extremely poor state with an... More
OCHA (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs): Humanitarian Appeal for the Horn of Africa Drought 2011
The Horn of Africa is experiencing the most severe food crisis in the world today. Over 12 million people in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are severely affected and in urgent need of humanitarian aid, and there is no likelihood of this situation improving until 2012. This figure of... More
Deployable emergency office in containers
OCHA is coordinating the deployment of the humanitarian organizations in various emergency locations acroos the world and during natural and/or man made disasters. Most of the time the deployments are occuring in detroy and.or very remote areas where it is very challeging to find minimum... More
Libyan Crisis: How to Help
This Guide informs donors how best to contribute to the humanitarian crisis in Libya and its border areas. More
Funding needed for human rights projects
OHCHR has developed a comprehensive strategic management plan (SMP) for 2010-2011 which highlights the most pressing human rights challenges around the world and sets out the Office’s strategy for responding. Although the Office has seen some budget increases in recent years, growing demand for... More
ICT-Equipment for Young Volunteers connecting Rural Youth and Women Micro-Entrepreneurs to Markets in Darfur and Eastern Sudan
UNDP and UNV Sudan are interested in in-kind or cash sponsoring of one or more of the following ICT-equipment and connectivity items for up to 600 Young Sudanese Volunteers (year 1):
- 600 laptops / netbooks with Arabic keyboard (by international company)
- 600 protection covers for laptops /...
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Making Cities Resilient-Campaign: "My city is getting ready!"
Cities and local governments need to get ready, reduce the risks and become resilient to disasters. For the next two years and beyond, the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) will campaign together with its partners for this to happen.
The 2010-2011 World Disaster...
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Global Platform 2011 - Third Session, 8-13 May 2011, Geneva
The third session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction is gearing up as planning begins in earnest.
The 2009 session witnessed a dramatic increase in political will to manage disaster risk compared to the first session in 2007. Many tools and successful pilot projects exist, but the...
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