Paving the way to peace with women in Lebanon
Lebanon endured a devastating 15-year civil war and has often been caught in the crossfire of regional conflicts. The country currently hosts more than 450,000 Palestinian refugees and close to one million Syrian refugees, three-fourths of them women and children. Despite the fact that women in Lebanon bore the brunt of the war over generations, they have been excluded from conflict prevention activities and the peace-making process. Nonetheless, they are advancing for change.
UN Volunteer Kazuaki Tsujii joined UN Women in Lebanon in 2018 as a Peace Building and Conflict Resolution Officer. He served through the Global Human Resource Development Programme for Peacebuilding and Development (HRD) of the Government of Japan from April 2018 for one year.
Tackling sustainable consumption and production in Serbia
Sara Hamano was initially assigned in 2018 to the United Nations Resident Coordinator's Office in Belgrade, Serbia, as a UN Volunteer Development Assistant Associate. She later moved to the Environment Unit of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), with a mandate to tackle low awareness of environmental sustainability among industry and consumers in Serbia. Two years on, she shares her experience.
As a coordinating agency, the RCO seeks to strengthen cooperation between UN entities on issues related to economic development and climate change resilience. It looks at ways to strengthen the UN system by financing and implementing cross-cutting programmes.