Category: sdgs
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World Water Day 2014
The World Water Day (WWD) 2014 will be celebrated on 22 March 2014 around the world. The main celebration of World Water Day will be organized by United Nations University (UNU) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) on behalf of UN-Water. The celebration will take place at the UNU Heaquarters in Tokyo, Japan…
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Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) Approaches to Creating Open Defecation Free (ODF) Community
Trigger, a 2012 Annual Report publication on the Pan-African Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) programmes, states that community empowerment and collective behavioral change including safe sanitation and hygiene with hand washing is an effective and sustainable way to creating open defecation free (ODF) community. According to the report, in community mobilization, self empowerment and collective behavioral change…
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Care for Child Development: Improving the care of young children (UNICEF and WHO)
“We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.” Frederick D. Roosevelt The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations International Emergency Children’s Fund (UNICEF), together with a wide range of partners, have recently developed a package material entitled Care…
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Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The eighth session of the United Nations’ (UN) Open Working Group (OWG) took place at the United Nations’ headquarters in New York from 3 February to 7 February 2014 . OWG is one of the main outcomes of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), held in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012, and…