SDG Project: Water in the World We Want, Phase 2, 2019-2020 - Final Report
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Between 2019 and 2020, the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), the United Nations Office for Sustainable Development (UNOSD/DSDG/UNDESA), the Ministry of Environment, Republic of Korea (MOE), the Korea Environment Corporation (K-eco) and national partners from Costa Rica, Pakistan, and Tunisia delivered the second phase of the project “Water in the World We Want”. During this phase, project partners launched the SDG 6 Policy Support System (SDG-PSS) online in four languages (English, French, Spanish, and Korean), developed an online course to address capacity building, and engaged with more countries from Africa and the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean through regional workshops. At total, 34 countries have now used the SDG-PSS in different capacities and contributed to its improvement by sharing their experien
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13 Apr, 2021 11:02 PM
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The latest MIQ worker who tested positive for Covid-19 wasn t also vaccinated. It comes amid revelations that 20 per cent of border staff have yet to get the jab protecting them against coronavirus.
The latest MIQ worker who tested positive for Covid-19 wasn t also vaccinated. It comes amid revelations that 20 per cent of border staff have yet to get the jab protecting them against coronavirus.
Thomas Bywater is a writer and digital producer for Herald Travelthomas.bywater@nzherald.co.nz@ThomasBywater
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This is a transcript of episode six of The Conversation Weekly podcast “COVID-19: where does the World Health Organization go from here?”. In this episode, three experts in global health explain why COVID-19 has been a moment of reckoning for the World Health Organization (WHO), and where it goes from here. And to mark one year since the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic, we hear from Conversation editors around the world on the situation where they live.
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Gemma: It’s been a year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. In this week’s episode, we’ll be looking at how the WHO has responded over the past year, and where it goes from here.