Photo credit: UNDP Viet Nam By Joanna Hausen, MIPP When I was first introduced to the portfolio of activities for the GCF funded Coastal Resilience Project in Viet Nam, I was excited to see how it all weaved together. Although I am focused mostly on the component of the project that is concerned with compiling disaster […]
Photo credit: Merran Eby By Kestrel DeMarco, MAGG One of the first things people ask me when I tell them about my internship with UNDP is whether I’ll be able to go to Viet Nam. Unfortunately, because of COVID, what would have been a six-month internship based out of Viet Nam has been a six-month
Photo credit: Sorn Seang Heng/flickr By Misha Goforth, MIPP I’ve been working with UNDP Cambodia for about 3 months now and it’s hard to believe I am halfway through my posting already. So, as I write my final blog for the dispatch series, I want to talk a bit more broadly about development work and
The Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA) is pleased to announce the release of Aftershocks: 2022 Global Trends Report, an anthology of policy briefs prepared by masters students for Global Affairs Canada. “If 2020 was defined by the large earthquake that was the Covid-19 pandemic, then 2021, metaphorically speaking, consisted of a series of smaller
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Photo credit: UN-Habitat Lebanon By Harry Deng, MAGG Not much has changed since my last blog post. I am still working on the Human Rights and Social Inclusion (HRSI) Unit’s strategic plan, as part of the unit’s resource mobilization strategy, and I am still working on the Youth 2030 Cities project. Regarding the HRSI strategic
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Photo credit: UN-Habitat By Andrew Horne, MIPP In today’s blog, I will briefly look at some of the work UN-Habitat is doing in relation to both the Covid-19 Pandemic and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Specifically, I will be looking at SDG 11 – Make Cities inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable, and I will be
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By: Tejas Rao, Associate Fellow, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law Fellows and Graduate Students from the Balsillie School were a part of key pledges at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, including a commitment to scale-up climate law & governance capacity worldwide tenfold
Photo credit: UN-Habitat By Harry Deng, MAGG Since my first blog, there have been quite a few changes to my role within the Human Rights and Social Inclusion Unit of UN-Habitat. While I am still part of the Resource Mobilization team, the Climate Changemakers workstream has been put on pause without a timeline for resumption
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Photo credit: Baochinhphu.vn By Joanna Hausen, MIPP There are inevitable risks facing countries due to climate change, and some risks will continue impacting communities despite preventative and mitigative measures or future improvements in policy and technology. Viet Nam is forecasted to face some of the most increased coastal risks in the world and a significant
Photo credit: VNA By Kestrel DeMarco, MAGG In the last couple of months working for the Climate Change and Environment (CCE) unit of UNDP Viet Nam on the “Coastal Resilience Project,” I’ve been assigned a diversity of exciting tasks related to Viet Nam’s national climate change strategy, nature-based solutions, risk databases, and risk-informed development. Along
Photo credit: CDC By Misha Goforth, MIPP Working with the results-based management unit of UNDP Cambodia for the last few months has been a great learning experience and has allowed me to stretch my skills in data management, coordination and analysis. In my last blog, I focused on the importance of results-based management in monitoring
Photo credit: Hieu Tran/Unsplash By Joanna Hausen, MIPP Hello from Kitchener, Ontario! A far throw from Hanoi, Vietnam, where the team I will be working with over the next months is based. Working remotely as a Junior Professional Consultant in climate policy and programme support with the United Nations Development Programme in Vietnam seems a
