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Participants during the session CB Academy: Connecting the UNFCCC Dots: Navigating the Three Pillars of Implementation. (Photo: © UN Climate Change - Zô Guimarães)
This is some sort of farm implement. Don't know how long it has been there, but it appears to have been there for a while.
2023-12-05: In a group picture, (L-R) Felicien Bamporineza, CFA, CPA, Chief Finance Officer (CFO), Board Member- Chair Audit Committee National Bank of Rwanda (NBR) Pension Fund; Eric Reading, Chief Climate Officer, Abt Associates, Washington; Emily Weeks, USAID Senior Policy Advisor - Climate, Natural Resource Management, Land and Resource Governance, Washington; Akinwole Omoboriowo II (AOII), Chairman & CEO, Genesis Energy Holdings; Moumini Savadogo, Managing Director AKADEMIYA2063, Rwanda and the officials during Africa@COP28: AUC-CACCI, Accelerating the Implementation of NDCs and NAPs in Africa at expo City, Dubai.
AIP Foundation’s Helmets for Families program emphasized the importance of road safety for children by hosting the “Children Have Fun With Road Safety” festival at Tan PhuTrung Primary School in the Cu Chi District of Ho Chi Minh City. This is the fifth year that Helmets for Families, supported by the global healthcare company Abbott and in partnership with the National Traffic Safety Committee (NTSC), Ministry of Education and Training (MoET), and local traffic authorities, is being implemented to encourage quality helmet use among students and their parents.
Ursula von Rydingsvard, 2009
The undulating, honeycombed layers of Von Rydingsvard’s sculptures consist of roughly hewn cedar blocks cut and stacked to create vessel-shaped forms that also reference the rocky cliffs of a natural landscape, the human body, and architectural structures. She transforms ordinary domestic implements—bowls, vases, spoons, shovels, tools—into monumental structures with forceful and dramatic physical presences. Influenced by minimalism’s reduction of sculpture to its most essential forms (Ronald Bladen was one of her mentors in graduate school), she also cites the psychological power and expressiveness of Alberto Giacometti’s bronze sculptures as a source of inspiration for her concentrated and evocative works. (artnc.org/works-of-art/ogromna)
It’s worth recalling that in December 2016, the Commissioner for Human Resources Science and Technology, H.E. Dr Martial De Paul Ikounga signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Secretary-General of the Association of African Universities (AAU), Professor Etienne Ehouan Ehile.
AAU is the voice of higher education in Africa and has been a lead agency in implementing the continental vision since its founding under the OAU. The African Union Agenda 2063 calls for an education and skills revolution to meet the human resource needs for actualising Africa’s social-economic development. As such, the African university occupies a strategic role in ensuring that our education systems are oriented towards promoting innovation, critical thinking, pan Africanism and entrepreneurial orientations while addressing Africa’s challenges and optimising on its opportunities.
The partnership between the AUC and the AAU over the last decade has witnessed the strengthening of the African higher education space through the promotion of intra-African academic mobility, harmonisation of qualifications for mutual recognition across the Member States; and promotion of a culture of continuous quality improvement through the AU’s African Quality Rating Mechanism.
The AAU has been able to mobilise African academia to appropriate the continental vision of Agenda 2063, and it has helped to build accountable leadership and quality in research and scholarship
GOAL: To increase engagements between the AAU and North America and the Diaspora
Objectives
• Mobilize funds for the advancement of Higher Education in Africa.
• Promote and develop relations between the African Academic Diaspora and African Higher Education Institutions (HEI).
• Promote sister university collaborations
• Promote and develop research and education networks among African Higher Education Institutions and their North American counterparts
• Promote corporate and non-profit America to support African Higher Education Institutions
• Sensitize potential development partners to the education needs of African HEIs
• Promote student and staff exchange
• Promote a role for Higher Education in US-Africa relations
• Develop and implement comprehensive international Initiatives for senior leadership at public research universities to facilitate seamless integration of international dimensions into the learning, discovery and engagement missions of our AAU institutions.
• Foster the development of globally competent students, internationally engaged faculty, and institutions capable of addressing global challenges.
• Identify critical issues, gather information, and create opportunities for AAU members to discuss challenges and share knowledge with their NA counterparts.
• Serve as the leading advocate for advancing the broad interests of the AAU in NA
• Support the development of innovative approaches and solutions to African Higher Education
Implementing IPV6 Supporting the Next Generation Internet Protocols
Mark A. Miller
If you are a network manager transitioning from an older Internet Protocol to Internet Protocol version 6, you know that version 6 includes enhancements to maintain the network efficiency required by increasing traffic.
Implementing Novel Ideas and Methods: Building and implementing a national health informatics course for Canadian pharmacy students
Britten recently headed up a large project that combined site surveys, hardware, print, and installation at several different Vail resorts across the country.
Following the on-site analysis at each resort (which was conducted in 6 different states in the span of a week), recommendations were made for specifically sized BannerStretch™ tensioned frames, silicone-edged fabric frames, and decal applications in other instances. Design templates were provided for each location and a unique piece of artwork was provided for every individual piece of media.
Highlights from an event with focus on the BBNJ agreement during the sixth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-6) in Nairobi, Kenya on the 28th of February 2024.
© UNEP / Nayim Ahmed Yusuf
The BBNJ event aims to bring together representatives of States and other relevant stakeholders in an effort to increase understanding of the BBNJ Agreement while also keeping up the momentum towards swift ratification and early implementation.
This agreement is critical for the future of the ocean, including through its vital contribution to efforts to conserve and sustainably use marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction. It will also provide an opportunity to reflect on Member States’ needs and priorities and UNEP’s way forward in response.
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Santiago, 30.08.2018. Con el fin de fortalecer la confianza y el control social, entidades privadas sin fines de lucro o que reciben fondos estatales se dieron cita para compartir experiencias y acciones implementadas en materia de Transparencia y los desafíos que deberán enfrentar al transformarse en sujetos obligados por ley a cumplir con estándares de Transparencia.
El sector sin fines de lucro, que contempla a organizaciones de carácter privado como fundaciones, asociaciones o corporaciones, mantiene una imagen positiva de la ciudadanía con un 70% de valoración, de acuerdo al Primer Índice de Valoraciones de las OSC del proyecto Sociedad en Acción.
Sin embargo, se están enfrentando al reto de visibilizar cada vez más el uso adecuado de los recursos y el aporte en la gestión para incidir en sus campos de acción. Con este fin, algunas de ellas han implementado una serie de acciones tendientes a elevar sus estándares de transparencia apuntando a resguardar la confianza pública, junto con fortalecer su relación con los donantes y la ciudadanía.
Todo esto en el marco del seminario “Si lo veo, te creo”, organizado por el Consejo para la Transparencia, el Hogar de Cristo, Fundación Lealtad Chile y el Centro de Políticas Públicas UC, con Sociedad Anónima y el proyecto Sociedad en Acción.
En la actividad inaugural participaron el ministro de Justicia y Derechos Humanos, Hernán Larraín; Marcelo Drago, presidente del Consejo para la Transparencia; y reconocidas figuras del ámbito académico como Ignacio Irarrázaval, director del Centro de Políticas Públicas UC.
Desde las entidades organizadoras del evento se destacó el principio de la Transparencia como clave tanto en el sector privado como en el público, en particular con los cambios que propone el proyecto de ley presentado por el Ejecutivo que incluirá obligaciones para las entidades que reciben recursos estatales.
Marcelo Drago, presidente del Consejo de la Transparencia relevó los avances y la colaboración entre instituciones para elevar los estándares: “Hay experiencias en instituciones privadas que están trabajando con mucho énfasis en transparentar sus acciones, en particular si reciben recursos del Estado. Unas han avanzado más que otras y esa experiencia es la que debe permear. Como CPLT colaboraremos activamente en este esfuerzo, sobre todo, pensando en que será una obligación con la nueva ley".
El Hogar de Cristo está liderando en materia de transparencia a nivel nacional. Con transparencia activa, apuntan cuidar los intereses de una sociedad cada vez más exigente en términos de control social. Hoy se puede revisar en línea sus estados financieros. Juan Cristóbal Romero, director ejecutivo de Hogar de Cristo, sostuvo: “Nosotros, como Hogar de Cristo, nos debemos a la comunidad; más del 50 por ciento de nuestros recursos provienen de ella y la única manera de responder a esa confianza, es ofrecer con el mayor detalle posible el uso que le damos al dinero para el servicio de los más pobres y excluidos”.
Ignacio Irarrázaval, director del Centro de Políticas Públicas UC y del proyecto Sociedad en Acción apuntó a la incidencia de estas acciones para mantener la positiva valoración que ostentan las organizaciones de la sociedad civil (OSC). “Hoy es un desafío darse cuenta de la relevancia que tiene la transparencia para promover la confianza y fe pública en este tipo de organizaciones. En Chile existen más de 230 mil OSC, que movilizan intereses de la ciudadanía y cuentan con una alta valoración. Y deben aspirar mantener eso, con capacidad en su trabajo, pero también con transparencia”.
En el marco del seminario también se debatió sobre los avances en materia de transparencia, revisando experiencias internacionales destacadas como la de la Fundación Lealtad Chile, originaria de España.
La gerenta de PwC Chile y directora de esta Fundación en Chile, Sharoni Rosenberg, hizo un llamado “a que todas las organizaciones sin fines de lucro se sumen el análisis de transparencia que realiza la Fundación gratuitamente y con independencia. Esta herramienta tiene validación internacional, permite la rendición de cuentas, fomenta la confianza y las donaciones”.
AGENCIA BLACKOUT
That wasn't quite what I was looking for when I suggested that they should let the baby hold the spoon for himself at the table.
The CLCC recently completed and approved our first science planning document titled, CLCC Science Strategy: Mission Alignment, as an initial step toward identifying shared conservation priorities. While the document met its stated objectives, Steering Committee (SC) members and outside reviewers have suggested the next step is to develop a framework for implementation. To carry out this step, SC members approved the use of a process called Structured Decision-Making (SDM). SDM is a formal, prescriptive, values-based method for analyzing a decision by breaking the decision into components. The specific process used in the workshop is called “PrOACT,” which refers to the decision components: Problem, Objectives, Alternatives, Consequences, and Tradeoffs. For the purposes of the CLCC, SDM provides a tool for achieving transparent, purposeful, and collaborative co-production of conservation—specifically, multi-partner landscape conservation design (LCD) for the Caribbean region.
To begin working through PrOACT the SC spent four days in El Yunque National Forest with decision support coaches Angela Romero and Mitch Aid (US FWS), Peter Freeman (USVI Independent Consulant) and Wanda Crespo (Estudio Technicos, Inc).
The objectives of this face to face meeting were to (1) introduce participating SC members to the SDM process so that they are comfortable with the process, its application, and its usefulness; (2) Frame “The Problem” SC members are jointly addressing (i.e., Step 1 of PrOACT); and (3) Develop a set of actionable “Objectives” based on CLCC shared values and priorities (i.e., Step 2 of PrOACT).
Steering Committee members agreed upon the following Decision Statement:
“The Caribbean LCC Steering Committee will develop and implement coordinated, efficient, and effective landscape-scale conservation design and strategy to conserve, restore and sustain ecological and cultural resources and services and human well-being in the Caribbean inside and outside of CLCC jurisdictional boundaries. The CLCC recognizes the following constraints and uncertainties: political and social environments, finances, multiple decision making authorities, diverse values, competing priorities, and climatic and ecological dynamics.”
The CLCC Steering Committee recognized themselves as the focal decision-makers and the organizations they represent as the implementers. The decision timeframe includes a 5-10 year planning horizon, 10-20 year implementation period (to institutionalize LCD), and the impacts of decisions will range from the present to 60 years to quasi-infinite. The group also agreed that the region of interest is the “terrestrial and marine components within the EEZ of the U.S. Caribbean, and Navassa Island, with consideration of relevant drivers, policies and impacts originating in the wider Caribbean region. The wider Caribbean is defined by UNEP.”
The Steering Committee also agreed upon four Fundamental Objectives, which will frame all future collaborative efforts of the CLCC (no particular order):
Maximize use of available operational resources
Maximize public satisfaction and well-being
Maximize the structure and function of aquatic and terrestrial resources
Maximize the integrity of cultural and historic resources
The Steering Committee agreed to create Tiger Teams, or subteams with a specific short-term task, to flesh out specific objectives and indicators for each of the Fundamental objectives.
Questions on this science planning process should be directed to CLCC Science Coordinator Brent Murry.
The Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) in collaboration with UNEP and ITU hosted a workshop on Extended Producer Responsibility guidelines and regulations for e-waste management in Rwanda.
The two-day workshop brought together representatives from government and development partners to discuss implementation of Rwanda’s e-waste regulations, Extended Producer Responsibility guidelines and the role of digital solutions that could be utilised to address e-waste challenges that pose severe dangers to the environment and people's health.
Dubai Maritime City Authority (DMCA), the government authority accountable for regulation, coordination and supervision of all elements of the maritime sector in the fantastic Middle East yacht vacation destination – Dubai, has announced the implementation of necessary marine craft driving l...
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An abandoned farm implement dealership in Lyford, TX.
There's something sad about any abandoned building, but abandoned buildings that once served the farming community are doubly sad, at least in my book. Perhaps it's because I wanted to be a farmer as a child (and still do from time to time, on the days when programming is especially frustrating).
Implemented by UNDP, the RFS Nigeria project aims to foster sustainability and resilience for food security in Northern Nigeria through addressing key environmental and socioeconomic drivers of food insecurity.
The 75th IAI Task Force Meeting has officially kicked off the final year of implementing the IAI Work Plan IV (2021-2025). With 10 new projects accredited, bringing the total to 105, this crucial initiative continues to drive ASEAN integration and reduce development gaps across CLMV and Timor-Leste.
Image Credit: ASEAN Secretariat / Kusuma Pandu Wijaya
Mission Implementation Senior System Engineer and served as the Vice-Chair of the OSIRIS-Rex Site Selection Board: Anjani POLIT;
Addressing climate change requires advanced low-carbon energy technologies. At the Paris Climate Change Conference, twenty countries including China and the United States, agreed to double funding for research and development of clean energy technologies by 2020. Dubbed “Mission Innovation,” their pledge was supported by the “The Breakthrough Energy Coalition” of 27 billionaires committing to invest patient, flexible risk capital for projects which will provide the economic proof points necessary for the mainstream market-driven clean energy economy required for our planetary future.
A crucial aspect of Mission Innovation will be international coordination, as countries navigate incentives to cooperate and fight climate change as well as those to compete for national returns on public investments.
In this seminar, Dr. Varun Sivaram will articulate the major objectives of international partnerships to invest in clean energy technology, review recent progress—especially between the United States and China—and make recommendations for how the world can best leverage the political will displayed in Paris.
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