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The National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) has been restructured into the Ghana Enterprises Agency (GEA) and resourced with GH¢145 million to support small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

GVMC Commissioner initiates Sustainability and Resilience Programme Updated: Updated: Project aims at supporting city in institutional strengthening, governance and developmental activities Share Article Project aims at supporting city in institutional strengthening, governance and developmental activities Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) Commissioner G. Srijana has initiated Sustainability and Resilience Programme (SRP) as part of the United Nations Development programme (UN...

16 May 2021 WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles. Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and we are committed to promoting diversity and gender balance. Are you interested in supporting the implementation and the roll-out of the resilience programme for Asia and the Pacific Region? Are you ready to change and save the lives of the worlds most vulnerable people? If yes, this opportunity is for you! TERMS AND CONDITION...

Students help with reforestation in Trinidad. Photo courtesy Fondes Amandes Community Reforestation Project THE Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (Canari) has endorsed the use of locally-led adaption principles in supporting the most vulnerable communities to address climate change impacts, including in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS), along with 50 other organisations globally. "As global leaders committed to ambitious targets to tackle the climate crisis at the Leaders ...

Building Resilience in the Sahel in an Era of Forced Displacement “The impacts of displacement present major challenges at every level of decision-making, but the opportunities for interventions that build resilience to climate change, foster social cohesion, and address gender and other disparities—well they’re also very real as well,” said Ambassador Mark Green, President, Director, and CEO of the Wilson Center, during his opening remarks at a recent event hosted by the Wilson Center ...

Empowering community volunteers for urban resilience Format Considering the effectiveness of community engagement in the successful implementation of sustainable resilience initiatives, UNDP’s National Resilience Programme is mobilising urban community volunteers from local educational institutions under selected city corporations and municipal areas. Presently, 240 volunteers are engaged with Rangamati Pourashava where they organise, mobilise and receive trainings on urban resilience issues ...

Sydney at sunset. Photo: 123rf/ Andrey Moisseyev Parts of Victoria and New South Wales are sweating through an extreme heatwave that started sweeping across Australias southeast yesterday. This may seem like just a good excuse to go to the beach, but as the planet heats up and escalating temperatures become less bearable it creates more and more significant challenges to everyday life. Already, heat kills more people in Australia than any other natural disaster, including floods, cyclones and ...

By Robert Tapfumaneyi THE United Kingdom (UK) is releasing an extra US$5,4 million of aid money to immediately provide food, nutrition, water and shelter to 110 000 vulnerable families living in Zimbabwe’s urban areas Zimbabwe will receive £4 million – approximately US$5.4 million – to help support 110 000 food insecure people living in urban areas. In a statement Wednesday, Zimbabwe’s development director for the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development (FCDO), Cate Turton, said t...

Views: Visits 13 THE United Kingdom (UK) is releasing an extra US$5,4 million of aid money to immediately provide food, nutrition, water and shelter to 110 000 vulnerable families living in Zimbabwe’s urban areas Zimbabwe will receive £4 million – approximately US$5.4 million – to help support 110 000 food insecure people living in urban areas. In a statement Wednesday, Zimbabwe’s development director for the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development (FCDO), Cate Turton, sa...

Advocacy/Communications Consultancy in Myanmar about Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding, Protection and Human Rights and Recovery and Reconstruction, requiring 3-4 years of experience, from Crown Agents; closing on 31 Jan 2021