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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 from experts from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). This is part of an...

Sydney at sunset. Photo: 123rf/ Andrey Moisseyev Parts of Victoria and New South Wales are sweating through an extreme heatwave that started sweeping across Australia's 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 bushfires. Now, faced with the prospect of 50-degree-plus summers, experts say highly urbanised par...

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 the beneficiaries will be the elderly, people living with disabilities and child-headed families that...

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, said the beneficiaries will be the elderly, people living with disabilities and child-headed families ...

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