Transportation and Public Safety
Digital innovation landscape in Asia and the Pacific
The Asia-Pacific region is rapidly becoming a hub for digitally-driven innovation supported by increasing numbers of cutting-edge digital technologies.
Введение
Рекомендации по перевозке опасных грузов предназначены для правительств и международных организаций занимающихся вопросами безопасности при перевозке опасных грузов.
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) is one of the 5 United Nations regional commissions administered by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). It was established in 1947 with the mandate to help rebuild post-war Europe develop economic activity and strengthen economic relations among European countries and between Europe and the rest of the world. During the Cold War UNECE served as a unique forum for economic dialogue and cooperation between East and West. Despite the complexity of this period significant achievements were made with consensus reached on numerous harmonization and standardization agreements.
Примечание
Употребляемые обозначения и изложение материала в настоящем издании не означают выражения со стороны Секретариата Организации Объединенных Наций какого бы то ни было мнения относительно правового статуса той или иной страны территории города района или их властей или относительно делимитации их границ Примеры представленные в исходной версии данной Рекомендации 2005 г. были отделены от основного текста в результате чего был создан отдельный репозиторий тематических исследований который можно более оперативно обновлять и поддерживать.
Road safety in the ECE region
According to the UNECE data for the year 2021 significant disparities exist in road traffic accident fatality and injury rates among UNECE member States as illustrated in figures I and II respectively. These figures underscore the variations in road safety metrics across the region.
Ageing in Sustainable and Smart Cities
There is now only a decade left to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and to achieve its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A decade of accelerated action is needed to do so and cities are key actors in this process. In an increasingly digitalized world Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can help cities become more efficient in their operations and services and thus more sustainable with opportunities for a greater quality of life and well-being of city dwellers of all generations levels of ability and backgrounds. Focusing on three realms of urban life - housing green and public spaces and transport - this brief draws attention to the importance of ensuring that the needs of older persons are taken into account when planning designing and implementing sustainable development plans at the local level. It addresses the question of how policy-makers business and civil society actors citizens young and old can design age-friendly sustainable urban environments with the help of new technologies that meet the needs of all generations overcome the digital divide foster inter-generational solidarity and ensure that older people are not left behind in sustainable and smart cities for all ages.
Assets for Alimentation?
A recent strand of aid programming aims to develop household assets by removing the stresses associated with meeting basic nutritional needs. In this paper we posit that such programmes can also boost nutrition in recipient households by encouraging further investment in diet. To test this hypothesis we study the World Food Programme’s “Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO)” in Niger a conflict-affected low income country with a high share of malnourishment. Under PRRO a household could be in one of three groups at endline: receiving food aid to prevent malnutrition receiving both preventive food aid and food for assets assistance or receiving no assistance (the control group). When provided only by itself the food aid has no nutritional impact relative to receiving no assistance. However we observe pronounced positive effects when preventive food aid is paired with assets-based programming over and above what stems from greater household assets. We conclude first that certain forms of food aid function well in complex insecure environments; second that assets-based programmes deliver positive nutritional spillovers; and third that there are theoretical grounds to believe that asset-based programmes interact positively with more nutrition-focused programming.