Nearly 5 per cent of India s total Union Budget 2020-21 would be spent on schemes that benefit women, stated the gender budget for the year. Amounting to Rs 1.4 lakh crore ($19 billion) in 2020-21, the gender budget includes allocations made by different ministries for schemes that fully or partially benefit women. Gender-responsive budgeting, along with supportive laws and other policy measures, could help governments track whether public funds are effectively allocated in furthering gender equality and empowering women. India was ranked 112th of 153 countries on the Global Gender Gap Index 2020. India started releasing a Gender Budget along with the Union Budget in 2005-06. Ahead of the Union Budget 2021-22, we analyse how useful, or not, gender budgets have proved to be.
Health Specialist - Health Economist ACT-A/COVAX (P-4), FT # 00115306, Health Section, PD - NYHQ
Job no: 536839
Location: United States Division/Equivalent: Programme
School/Unit: Programme Division
Categories: Health, P-4
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
The Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A) was launched in April 2020 with the aim of accelerating development, production, and equitable access to COVID-19 tests, treatments, and vaccines. ACT-A brings together governments, scientists, businesses, civil society, philanthropists and global health organizations. UNICEF plays a substantial role in all three ACT-A pillars (diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines), and in the
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Nuffic: Health Systems Strengthening through Education and Training – Burkina Faso, Burundi, Ethiopia, Mali, Niger
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The main objective is to contribute to sustainable and inclusive development through the strengthening of organisations key to sectoral development in OKP partner countries. This will be achieved by developing the capacity, knowledge and quality of individuals as well as organisations both in the field of Technical and Vocational Education and Training and Higher Education (TVET/HE) and in other fields related to the priority themes in the OKP partner countries.
Scope
The scope of this thematic document is rather open to allow for a wide range of initiatives that contribute to Health System Strengthening. The following examples illustrate the type of interventions that will be considered:
Tech-Skills for Sustainable Water Management and Youth Employment in Africa
Published 4 months ago
“World water consumption is growing at a frenetic rate…more than 900 million people in the world still do not have access to sufficient drinking water resources, including 340 million in sub-Saharan Africa. In such a context, good water management is more essential than ever.”
With these words, Patrick Gilabert, Head of the Brussels office of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), set the scene for a webinar discussion of innovative solutions to water challenges through technical skills development, private sector engagement, technology transfer and digitalisation.
The webinar, organized together with the H2O Maghreb project team from Morocco, brought together public, private and development stakeholders working in water and sanitation. The bilingual event was moderated by Philippe Scholtès, Special Advisor to the UNIDO Director General. One hundred