Senior UN official Siddharth Chatterjee has formally taken over as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in China, a key posting of overseeing the work of 27 agencies, funds and programmes of the global organisation in the world s most populous country
Siddharth Chatterjee of India takes over as UN Resident Coordinator in China
He will be UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres s senior-most UN Representative in China as the UN Resident Coordinator.
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BEIJING: Senior UN official Siddharth Chatterjee of India has formally taken over as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in China, a key posting of overseeing the work of 27 agencies, funds and programmes of the global organisation in the world s most populous country.
He will be UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres s senior-most UN Representative in China as the UN Resident Coordinator. Chatterjee, whose early career was in the Indian Army, was decorated for gallantry by the President of India in 1995.
Published February 15, 2021, 1:52 PM
In less than two weeks, the Manila city government has vaccinated 86.7 percent of the targeted population in its measles-rubella immunization drive.
A child receives polio and rubell vaccines during the Department of Health’s “Chikiting Ligtas sa Dagdag Bakuna Kontra Tigdas at Rubella” immunization campaign, held inside a barangay health center in Manila, on Feb. 1, 2021. (Jansend Romero / MANILA BULLETIN)
Manila City Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso commended the Manila Health Department (MHD) for almost finishing the city’s vaccination drive against measles-rubella.
“’Nakakatuwa naman. Masisipag ‘yung ating mga kawani sa Manila Health Department (I’m glad, the personnel of Manila Health Department are very hardworking),” he said in a statement on Monday, Feb. 15.
By grouping adolescents with adults, India’s surveys are routinely misestimating their health
One major attempt to correct this has been a one-off. Representational image. | Ahmad Masood/Reuters
India routinely misestimates thinness, overweight and stunting among adolescents because official data sources do not gather sufficient data specifically on adolescents, clubbing them instead with data on adults. This holds true across states, rural-urban residence and wealth groups, a June 2020
study says, showing up data gaps with wide-ranging implications for policy and programme design.
The key
National Family Health Survey does not collect health and nutrition data for school-age children (6-year to 9-year-old) and
160 tablets donated to help children access education
Students of San Rafael Primary School with their new devices. - Photo courtesy IOM
A total of 160 electronic tablets were distributed to primary school and other organisation recently as part of the programme to provide vulnerable children with equipment to access to remote education.
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM), in partnership with its non-profit partner, USA for IOM, and Citi TT, distributed the devices on February 10 and 11, according to a statement from IOM.
Through Office of Law Enforcement Policy, an agency in the Ministry of National Security, primary schools and non-governmental organisations were selected to benefit from the initiative to narrow the digital learning gap created by the covid19 pandemic.