Most of the world’s nations are not doing enough to protect women and girls from the economic and social fallout being caused by the COVID-19 crisis, according to new data released today by UNDP and UN Women from the COVID-19 Global Gender Response Tracker. The tracker, which includes over 2,500 …
Be alive to challenges: J.Radhakrishnan, Assistant Country Director and Head, Disaster Management, United Nations Development Programme, India, handing over the degree certificate to a student at the graduation day of SASTRA University in Kumbakonam on Sunday. KUMBAKONAM: Disaster management techniques is now broad based and schemes have been designed, taking …
City Corporation to prepare disaster management plan 18004256865 to be toll-free emergency number Quick-response teams to be set up Thiruvananthapuram: The City Corporation is set to play a major role in disaster management and urban risk reduction, under a project supported by the Central government and the United Nations Development …
Eminent environmentalist Dr Atiq Rahman on Wednesday stressed the need for involving local communities to implement the adaptation programmes to face the adverse impacts of climate change. "Local governments as well as local community are two vital components for climate change adaptation," he said at a roundtable at Hotel Sheraton …
NEW DELHI: Union Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh on Tuesday announced that the Steel Ministry proposed to take up more UNDP-sponsored projects for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in steel re-rolling mills. Addressing the national conference on
EVER-increasing demand for skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled workers in urban areas, availability of basic amenities, societal behaviour change for urban life, high paid jobs in IT, manufacturing and service sector trigger largescale migration of people to urban centers. As per the 2001 Census, 42.58 million Indians live in nearly 3,700 …
The MMRDA is in the process of signing an MoU with the Regional Centre for Urban & Environmental Studies (RCUES) to prepare a Human Development Report on the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). United Nations Development Programme has also agreed to be associated with the report. The scope of work for …
On Tuesday, Uttarakhand's Governor, Margaret Alva flagged off trucks loaded with aid materials for victims of natural disasters while students of Welham Girls School pitched in with their bit; acts that definitely deserve appreciation. However, as one acknowledges the relief effort, thoughts dash to the looming possibility of a catastrophic …
JODHPUR: To delve on various ways to control the land degradation of the Thar Desert, a two-day workshop was organised by the Jal Bhagirathi Foundation here on Thursday. The UNDP-supported project Sustainable Participatory Management of Natural Resources to Control Land Degradation in the Thar Desert Ecosystem' envisages development and implementation …
S.Ganesan Urban risk reduction programme funded by UNDP, Centre TIRUCHI: A disaster management plan for Tiruchi City would be prepared within the next three months under the Urban Risk Reduction Programme (URRP), a joint initiative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Union government. The plan would lay …
The document illustrates the impact of UNDP-Planning Commission partnership in mainstreaming human development in government policies and planning. It also highlights successful strategies and constraints reported by the states in achieving sustainable human development.
The government is planning to revise the existing taxation law to impose more tax on those who emit higher amount of carbon into the air and pollute the environment. ‘We are seriously considering revising the existing taxation law to levy more tax for carbon emission and environmental pollution. Any car …
The Arab world will be one of the regions worst hit by climate change but still lacks any coordinated response to its potentially devastating effects, experts said at a conference this week. With hotter, drier and less predictable climates, the amount of water running into the region's streams and rivers …
Ministry of Housing and Environment has launched a Survey of Climate Change Adaptation Measures in practice in the Maldives under the Integrating Climate Change Risks into Resilient Island Planning in the Maldives Project. The Project is a collaborative effort between the Government of Maldives, the Global Environment Fund and the …
Dr Manjit S. Kang, Vice-Chancellor, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana According to the World Food Summit of 1996, food security is the situation "when all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life." Improper and inadequate grain storage results in 5 …
Vocational training to be given for fishermen Conservation measures:A team of United Nations Development Programme, New Delhi, at Kurusadai Island in Gulf of Mannar near Mandapam on Thursday. KURUSADAI ISLAND (GULF OF MANNAR): R. Srinivasan, Assistant Country Director, United Nations Development Programme, (Energy and Environment), New Delhi, said it would …
The United Nations (UN) System (WFP, UNDP and UNICEF) has extended its support to 14,000 cyclone Aila affected families still living on embankments in Bangladesh. Drawing assistance from the UK's Department for International Development (DFID), the UN agencies will work to distribute food, assist with shelter and implement basic Water, …
