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Source:
UN Coordination Unit
Date: 30 Sept 2000
UN activities in
Somalia for the week of 25 - 30 Sep 2000
UNDP
On 28 September, the UN
Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator travelled to Djibouti to meet
members of the Transitional National Government.
Consultant Jeremy Brickell,
author of the Somali Civil Protection Programme (SCPP) document, is in
Nairobi to prepare a meeting on demobilisation of militia. The meeting
is scheduled for the first week of November. Please contact UNDP for
more information.
A database of activities
undertaken all UN agencies is currently under production and will be
distributed for comments in early October.
The Capacity Building
Facility (CBF) team held an intensive one-day meeting on 27 September,
discussing how to engage more professional staff in Somalia, how to
recruit more Somali professionals and how to work more closely with
local administrations.
The Data and Information
Management Unit (DIMU) is undertaking a series of tutorials for staff.
Starting next Wednesday in Nairobi, these will discuss how to access
DIMU maps, databases and other information via the website.
The Director of Civil
Aviation from Hargeisa is attending a Search and Rescue Training
Seminar in Florence, Italy, sponsored by UNDP.
WHO
A three-day NIDs campaign
for the eradication of polio was completed in Mogadishu on 28
September.
UNICEF
All programme officers and
senior management staff travelled to Hargeisa for UNICEF's annual
Programme and Operations Management Meeting (POMM).
UNESCO
UNESCO is holding a Civic
Education Workshop in Baidoa and an Upper Primary Textbook writer's
induction course in Hargeisa from 23-29 September.
UNHCR
UNHCR completed the
repatriation of 44 returnees from Yemen to Mogadishu on 25 September.
UNHCR reported that a
group of Ethiopian 'economic migrants' had camped outside their
Galkayo office in an effort to receive asylum.
FAO
A consultant has been sent
to Yemen and Saudi Arabia in an effort to trace the origin of the
current Rift Valley Fever outbreak in these countries.
Early next week, FAO will
airlift vegetable seeds destined for 5000 farmers in southern Somalia.
For additional
information or to submit information please contact:
Ms. Safia Giama
safia.giama@undp.org
Ms. Mugure Warobi
mugure.warobi@undp.org
Link : http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/s/AF7E2C035FA2D291C125696D00319AE0
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