Infrastructure for gender equality and the empowerment of women

Un nuevo informe publicado por UNOPS insta a la comunidad mundial a cambiar la forma en que se planifica, entrega y gestiona la infraestructura para empoderar a las mujeres y las niñas. El informe, ' Infraestructura para la igualdad de género y el empoderamiento de las mujeres ' examina las numerosas barreras a las que se enfrentan las mujeres y las niñas cuando intentan acceder a los servicios básicos, como la educación y la atención sanitaria, oa las oportunidades económicas. Como lo demuestra la actual pandemia de COVID-19, las mujeres y las niñas están más expuestas a los efectos de las pandemias, en términos económicos, sociales y de salud. Una infraestructura deficiente puede empeorar el impacto de las crisis, limitando el acceso a recursos críticos como agua limpia, servicios de salud y saneamiento adecuados y tecnología de comunicaciones digitales.To support this paradigm shift, UNOPS has developed – and is currently implementing – a series of methodologies and tools based on the evidence-based infrastructure (EBI) approach, helping governments assess and improve their capacity to plan, deliver and manage infrastructure systems. This includes identifying actions to mainstream gender in infrastructure projects, understanding priority areas for intervention and assessing the level of sustainability, efficiency and resilience of existing infrastructure assets and systems. The tools and methodologies that have been developed to support gender mainstreaming in infrastructure are the sustainABLE tool and the Capacity Assessment Tool for Infrastructure (CAT-I), which are discussed in detail in the final section of this report

Increase coverage of HIV and AIDS services in Myanmar

Myanmar is experiencing an HIV epidemic documented since the late 1980s. The National AIDS Programme national surveillance ante-natal clinics had already estimated in 1993 that 1.4% of pregnant women were HIV positive, and UNAIDS estimates that at end 2005 1.3% (range 0.7–2.0%) of the adult population was living with HIV. While a HIV surveillance system has been in place since 1992, the programmatic response to the epidemic has been slower to emerge although short- and medium-terms plans have been formulated since 1990. These early plans focused on the health sector, omitted key population groups at risk of HIV transmission and have not been adequately funded. The public health system more generally is severely under-funded

People and planet : addressing the interlinked challenges of climate change, poverty and hunger in Asia and the Pacific

Global collective climate action is not progressing fast enough to reduce carbon emissions or build necessary adaptive capacity to the impacts of changing weather patterns. In the Asia-Pacific region, climate change threatens to worsen hunger and poverty and is undoing gains in sustainable development achieved by the region over recent decades. This edition of the Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Partnership Report — People and Planet: Addressing Climate Change, Poverty and Hunger in Asia and the Pacific — focuses on how the varying impacts of climate change across the region are interacting with poverty and hunger against a backdrop of continuing cost-of-living pressures, global conflict, and increasing climate shocks, at a time when many countries are still recovering from the fiscal strain of the COVID-19 pandemic, over-extended borrowing, and the high cost of debt.   Transformative solutions require us all to row in the same direction, with respect to enablers like education, institutional capacity building, innovative financing, and partnerships. Numerous examples of innovations, good practices, and responses from across the region are highlighted to provide inspiration for action.</p

Final evaluation of "An Integrated Rural Economic Development Programme for Livelihoods Improvement in the Dry Zone of Myanmar"

Leading Division: MPFDFarmers in the Dry Zone of Myanmar face growing uncertainties linked to climate change and natural resources degradation, economic and market instability, migration and other factors. Informal, poorly developed value chains do not allow poor farmers to face these uncertainties. Incomes from traditional cash crops are increasingly volatile and indebtedness has become a major constraint. In order to sustain and improve adaptation of livelihoods, evolution of techniques, organization and articulation of value chains are more than ever necessary. A series of strategic priorities has been defined through Development Partnership fora and United Nations agencies called in for supporting them. Among the priority areas, are policy development towards sustainable and inclusive rural development, and corresponding articulation of providers of knowledge and expertise at all relevant levels.&nbsp;The proposal for this project stems from the need of providing tools for mainstreaming policy recommendations and ensuring their application through the different levels of governance.&nbsp;The implementation arrangement for the project includes UNESCAP as implementing agency, in charge of project coordination, administration and technical backstopping; planning and implementation of activities in Myanmar are delegated to NAG, while at township level, local activities are also coordinated through NAG, with LIFT local implementation partners. Initially, six LIFT funded projects active in the Dry Zone were identified as local partners.&nbsp;The project formulation was based on previous UNESCAP experience, and consultations with LIFT partners, other Development partners active in the Dry Zone such as FAO and JICA.&nbsp;The geographical focus is on the central Dry Zone, including Mandalay and Magway region as well as the southern part of Sagaing region.1 Background ...................................................................................................................................... 6 1.1 Situation in the area and project background ......................................................................... 6 1.2 Theory of change ..................................................................................................................... 7 2 Objectives and methodology of the evaluation ............................................................................ 10 3 Methodology ................................................................................................................................. 13 4 Findings.......................................................................................................................................... 14 4.1 Relevance .............................................................................................................................. 14 4.2 Effectiveness .......................................................................................................................... 19 4.3 Efficiency................................................................................................................................ 28 4.4 Impact .................................................................................................................................... 29 4.5 Sustainability ......................................................................................................................... 29 4.6 Cross cutting themes ............................................................................................................. 30 5 Key lessons .................................................................................................................................... 31 6 Annexes ......................................................................................................................................... 34 6.1 Itinerary (field mission).......................................................................................................... 34 6.2 Bibliography ........................................................................................................................... 36</p

Diagramming development for a base camp and staging area in a humanitarian logistics base airport

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a method for diagramming a base camp or space for emergency workers and a staging area to be used during sorting, storing, loading, and unloading of relief goods in a humanitarian logistics base airport. Design/methodology/approach – A method is developed based on a synthesis of the relevant literature and current practices of airports. This provides a means for estimating the area required for each facility and visualizes the layout of the base through an adjacency diagram and a bubble diagram. The method is applied to the Shizuoka Airport in Japan as a case study. Findings – The proposed method can be used to determine the approximate size and layout of a humanitarian logistics base in an airport based on the affected population and the number of emergency workers. Research limitations/implications – Airport operation regulations and mathematical models from architectural planning need to be reflected further. Practical implications – The method provides potential operational improvements for policies and standards for airport operations and enables government officials and humanitarian logistics organizations to identify concerns in facilitating and managing constraints in existing airports. Originality/value – This study addresses the detailed phases in a diagramming for a humanitarian logistics base airport by integrating an architectural approach and airport disaster management. The results highlight the importance of managing the flexible use of space to improve effective humanitarian logistics

Nuevo y definitivo estudio técnico de balance hídrico integral cuenca alta del río Apurímac hasta la confluencia con el río Salado: informe final

Contiene el informe final del Estudio de Balance Hídrico Integral de la Cuenca Alta del Río Apurímac hasta la Confluencia con el Río Salado (EBHICA). Luego de una presentación, este el documento brinda las conclusiones y recomendaciones del estudio y seguidamente desarrolla 19 capítulos que tratan la descripción general de la cuenca, antecedentes, información cartográfica, características, análisis de datos, entre otros aspectos