3 August 2018
The Launch of an Alumni Country Chapter in Palestine
The UNU-GEST developed an Alumni Strategic Plan for the period of 2016–2018. Its purpose was to strengthen and formalize such communication among former UNU-GEST fellows by enhancing their interaction and by recognizing the importance of an alumni community for exchanging views, resources and knowledge related to gender equality. UNU-GEST sees its role in the Alumni Network as a sponsor of action plans and as being responsible for their advancement.
31 July 2018
Staff changes at the UNU-GEST Programme
Erla Hlín Hjálmarsdóttir, the Head of Research Development at UNU-GEST since 2015, Kristjana Sigurbjörnsdóttir, who has been the Studies Programme Manager since 2016, and Pétur Waldorff, a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at UNU-GEST and the EDDA Research Center and a UNU-GEST Project Manager, have moved to new posts at the Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Two new projects managers will join the UNU-GEST programme in the autumn.
27 July 2018
Seattle Highlights
Last week campus of Seattle’s University of Washington was bustling with crowds of cheerful fishery economists of various stocks: Academics, fisheries managers, policy makers, seafood industry members and old UNU-FTP fellows ...
23 July 2018
UNU-GEST chaired the side event ‘The Road to End Child Marriage in Africa’ during 62nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women
On March 15 this year, during the 62nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 62), UNU-GEST chaired the side event ‘The Road to End Child Marriage in Africa’. The event was organized by UN Women Malawi and the governments of Malawi and Zambia with support from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Iceland and UNU-GEST.
20 July 2018
UNU-FTP at IIFET in Seattle
At the IIFET 2018 conference in Seattle eighteen former UNU-FTP fellows are presenting great research projects related to the fisheries of their home countries and at the same time giving the whole conference a real global essence.
11 July 2018
Course in Mongolia on communicating knowledge for sustainable rangeland management under climate change
Mongolia has an unparalleled monitoring programme on rangeland health. A wealth of data is collected every year in a systematic way, at many sites throughout this vast country. The high-quality data collected provides opportunities to communicate and synthesize this knowledge, so that it can be translated into effective policy making for sustainable rangeland use.