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Making Cities Resilient-Campaign: "My city is getting ready!"
Cities and local governments need to get ready, reduce the risks and become resilient to disasters. For the next two years and beyond, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) will campaign together with its partners for this to happen.
The World Disaster Reduction Campaign...
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Join Caring for Climate
Caring for Climate is a voluntary and complementary action platform for UN Global Compact participants who seek to demonstrate leadership on the issue of climate change. It provides a framework for business leaders to advance practical solutions and help shape public policy as well as public... More
ICT-Equipment for Young Volunteers connecting Rural Youth and Women Micro-Entrepreneurs to Markets in Darfur and Eastern Sudan
UNDP and UNV Sudan are interested in in-kind or cash sponsoring of one or more of the following ICT-equipment and connectivity items for up to 600 Young Sudanese Volunteers (year 1):
- 600 laptops / netbooks with Arabic keyboard (by international company)
- 600 protection covers for laptops /...
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The Green Commodities Facility
The Facility is looking for major market players who have a long-term commitment to scaling up the sustainable sourcing of commodities and recognize the need to move beyond certification to work with governments to create national support systems and scale up support to farmers. Key commodities for... More
Sustainable Buildings & Climate Initiative (SBCI)
UNEP-SBCI promotes policies and practices for a sustainably built environment. The building sector has the largest potential of any sector to reduce emissions at low-costs using readily available technologies while creating millions of quality jobs. Companies in the building and construction sector... More
Business Call to Action
Launched in 2008, the Business Call to Action (BCtA) is a global membership network of companies, governments, and development organizations working to identify and promote business models that contribute to long-term commercial and development goals. By challenging companies to adapt business... More
Mongolia 2010 Dzud - Humanitarian Appeal
The 2009-10 winter, which has been extremely harsh even by Mongolian standards, has resulted in increased maternal and child mortality, and an unprecedented loss of livestock and the collapse of thousands of people’s livelihoods and many basic services. The disaster is known locally as a dzud... More
Making a Business Case for Wildlife Conservation in Kasigau Community (Kenya)
The project is implemented in collaboration with a tour operator in Kenya and aims to enhance the protection of the wildlife populations in the area, which are currently at a high risk due to poaching, and to build and strengthen the institutional capacity among the Kasigau Community to manage... More
Enhancement of Local Employment in Amboseli Tourism Destination through the Creation of a Pioneer Vocational Training School (Kenya)
The project is implemented in collaboration with the lodges and tented camps in the Amboseli National Park and aims to establish and operate a vocational tourism training school that will provide local Maasai youth with education in the tourism industry and in eco-friendly land management, thereby... More
Upgrading local facilities to promote community-based elephant tourism and nature conservation in Hongsa District (Lao PDR)
The project is implemented in collaboration with a tour operator in Lao PDR and aims to provide alternative forms of income to mahouts and communities of Hongsa through the reconversion of logging elephants into community-based tourism. Improve the tourism market in Hongsa while reducing the rate... More