Ulrika Richardson, the most senior UN humanitarian official in Haiti, visited a number of cholera treatment centres in the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince, where she met medical staff treating patients with the disease.
United Nations Resident Coordinators from across all regions came together in a series of interactive sessions with the Secretary-General, the Deputy Secretary-General, UN Sustainable Development Group Principals and Member State representatives to take stock on progress and challenges four years into sweeping UN development system reforms.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed Joseph Scheuer of Luxembourg as the UN Resident Coordinator in Cambodia, with the host Government’s approval. He took up his post on 1st October.
As government representatives begin to finalize the agenda for the COP27 climate change conference in Egypt next month, the UN chief told journalists in NY that the work ahead is “as immense as the climate impacts we are seeing around the world”.
Our UN teams are on the ground in 162 countries and territories, coordinating joint programmes and tackling a range of multi-faceted priorities and key initiatives on a daily basis — from climate action to gender equality and food security.
Recent challenges, including COVID-19, the economic recession and deepening social inequalities have set back Costa Rica’s progress towards achieving SDG 4. Under the strong leadership of the RC, the UN system in Costa Rica has worked together to scale up its efforts and build a Cooperation Framework with the Government of Costa Rica for the next four years.
As the Transforming Education Summit kicks off at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, our RC in Bosnia and Herzegovina reflects on the important progress the UN and partners have made in advancing more equitable and inclusive education across the country.
This is an overview of the perspective of the Special Adviser of the UN Secretary-General for the Transforming Education Summit: Leonardo Garnier, originally from Costa Rica, outlines the genesis of the current crossroads in education, with particular emphasis on the Latin American and Caribbean region.
As the effects of climate change and global crises continue unfold, food insecurity has become a challenge facing more and more countries around the world. In Jordan, young people are coming together and using local innovations to address systemic food security issues facing their communities and overcome the various factors.
