United Nations Resident Coordinator for Sri Lanka, Ms. Hanaa Singer-Hamdy outlined the urgent funding asks of the Joint Humanitarian Needs and Priorities Plan (HNP Plan) which was launched today in coordination with development and humanitarian partners in Sri Lanka.
During a visit to Tajikistan, Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed congratulated the country on its 30th anniversary of UN Membership and attended a Cooperation Framework signing ceremony that “reflects our strong partnership”. The joint UN-Tajikistan document, which was signed on Tuesday by Prime Minister Kokhir Rasulzoda and UN Resident Coordinator Sezin Sinanoglu, sets out national development priorities and goals for the next four years.
On 5 June, the UN celebrates World Environment Day, a day to remind us how fragile and endangered nature is, and how much we all depend on it in order to live and thrive. In Côte d'Ivoire, the UN is helping preserve and ensure the sustainable management of one of the country’s invaluable natural sources of wealth – the “sacred forests”.
At the beginning of the year, the Government of Indonesia announced that it had administered more than 280 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines. With over 79.6 per cent of the national population receiving at least one dose and 54.8 per cent fully vaccinated, Indonesia celebrated achieving its national vaccination target by the end of 2021.
Realizing that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development would require a significant break from the ‘business as usual’ approach to development planning, the Government of the Cabo Verde joined forces with the UN Country Team (UNCT), led by Ana Graça the UN Resident Coordinator to organize a ‘cruise into the future’ visioning exercise to help design the National Development Plan 2022-2026 and the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework 2023-2027 (UNSDCF).
The celebration to mark the thirty-year anniversary of Bosnia and Herzegovina's accession to the United Nations began last week with a formal programme at the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo and continued with the second edition of the UN's #ImagineChange Festival at the Square of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Trg BiH).
“The weather here’s a lot drier for longer these days,” says Althea Spencer, the treasurer of the Mount Airy Farmers group, which is based in Northern Clarendon. “If you don’t have water, it makes no sense to plant seeds because they will just die.”
