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A Nepalese peacekeeper serving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was on Friday named the recipient of the UN Woman Police Officer of the

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GLOMOS programme supports international humanitarian relief efforts in Saint Vincent volcano eruption Format Since April the La Soufrière volcano, located in the north of the largest island of the country of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean, has erupted multiple times. Strong explosions generated ash plumes, which are not only impacting the entire island of Saint Vincent, but also transporting massive amounts of ash to the neighboring island country of Barbados in the Lesser A...

 - May 3, 2021, 8:15 AM Hydrogen’s potential as a primary aviation fuel makes it one of the most promising prospects for sustainable aviation, Tarsus F&E’s Aviation Sustainability conference in Dubai in late 2020 heard. Nikhil Sachdeva, project manager at consultancy Roland Berger, who chaired the session on hydrogen, said three broad areas needed to be tackled for the fuel to progress as an alternative propulsion source: technology and technological challenges, perception, largely rela...

By Anthony Prassoulis, Information & Advocacy Unit, OCHA ROLAC Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the eruption of the La Soufrière volcano in early April has brought a new wave of humanitarian, socioeconomic and environmental repercussions crashing down on Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, stretching national response capacities and threatening to set back development by decades. Preliminary assessments estimate that the eruption could cost the country the equivalent of 50 per cent of its gross domes...

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | La Soufrière volcano activity │DG ECHO Daily Map│28/04/2021 Format EU Response  On 12 April, ERCC received a request for assistance from the Government of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.  Between 12 and 17 April, France offered in kind assistance including personal protective equipment (masks, gowns, protective suits and more), hygiene items, cleaning kits, shelter items, antigen tests and drinking water.  On 14 April, ERCC received a request f...

English Map on Equatorial Guinea and 2 other countries about Contributions, Health, Epidemic, Technological Disaster and more; published on 09 Mar 2021 by ECHO

Handover of resilient houses to poor households in Quang Nam Province Format Quang Nam, February 4, 2021 – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Department of Construction of Quang Nam province organize the handover of the first batch of resilient houses to poor households in time to celebrate the Lunar New Year. This is one of the activities of the UNDP project “Response to disasters in Viet Nam” to repair 3,323 houses and build 20 new houses (10 in Quang Nam province ...

01/02/2021 - by the Climate Centre The Red Cross Red Crescent has published a new checklist for greening the Movement, strengthening its environmental sustainability and supporting advocacy. The Green Response Working Group (GRWG) – a coalition of National Societies, IFRC and ICRC representatives – last month released a new report, Red Goes Green, drawing on interviews across the Movement as well as with environmental experts and local humanitar...