United Nations in Ukraine

Kindly see attached the presentation by Natalia Sitnikova from yesterday, as well as link to the latest Human Development Report launched last week http://www.ua.undp.org/content/dam/ukraine/docs/PR/hdr14-report-en-1.pdf. For any additional questions to Natalia, you may be directly in touch with her to natalia.sitnikova@undp.org  

 

Today we will continue our course at 2:30pm at the UNDP Esplanadna office conference room (20, Esplanadna Str., 7th floor) with the following agenda:

-          Environment and Climate Change by Olena Ovchynnikova, Programme Analyst, UNDP Ukraine

-          Youth Employment: Opportunity or challenge? by Sergiy Savchuk, ILO Ukraine

-          Gender equality by UNFPA Ukraine

-          Presentation of "Increasing Accountability in Financing for Gender Equality" Programme by UN Women Ukraine

-       Presentation of findings of the latest report by UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine by Nataliya Pylypiv, HRMMU

We have included all your names in the guest list given to the Esplanadna office ground floor security guards, but in case there will be any problems in getting in to the building and to the 7th floor, kindly call my cell +380 50 718 3176 and we will come and help you. Yulia will also be waiting for you downstairs and should be able to guide you from the security point to the elevator and up to the 7th floor. 

Update on SDGs workshop – due to popular demand we have now arranged you some additional time on Friday to work on your Sustainable Development Goals workshop group task as well as to present your ideas to other participants. Therefore we would suggest us to start our session on Friday 1 August already at 3:00pm in order to have enough time to do so. Hope this is fine with everybody!

Update on final assignment - those of you who have read our summer course outline carefully might have noticed that in addition to this week's regular course meetings, we are encouraging you all to work on a final assignment in the form of small volunteer projects, which you are expected to plan and implement by yourself once the course meetings are over. Towards this aim, we will tomorrow Thursday conduct a project development -workshop, where we will guide you through the project development cycle and help you plan your steps forward in project realization. In order to prepare for the workshop, kindly see attached instructions for final assignment and please start forming groups of 2-4 people with whom you would like to work on this project. Last year we had really great initiatives coming up as a result of these projects and e.g. a Peace Day Conference for local school children, a Peace Day celebration for refugee kids, UN Club for university students, recycling points in apartment buildings, lectures on MDGs for students, and many other small projects were carried out, so we are confident that this year we will see the birth of many great initiatives too!  

Facebook - we would also like to include you all in our UN Ukraine Summer Course -Facebook group established last year, so kindly send me your FB contacts via email (i.e. link to your profile), so that I can send you a friend request, and once you approve it, I will add you to the group. Why to join the group? We will upload all photos taken during the course on our FB group only and there you will also have a chance to stay in touch with each other and continue discussion on whatever topics you find interesting. Thank you! 

Huh sorry for such a long message - hope you had the patience to read it all through...! ;-)