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Global Programmes

  • Human Security for All – A Global Campaign​

    Duration: October 2022 - March 2024
    Budget: US$716,351
    Implementing Agencies: World Academy of Art & Science (WAAS), Human Security Unit (HSU)​

    The programme’s key objective is to enhance global awareness and acceptance of human security as a universal and proven framework for effective policies, strategies and programmes in a world faced with a confluence of complex crises and accelerating megatrends that if left unmanaged will exacerbate vulnerabilities and inequalities and further undermine the solidarity and trust so urgently needed to meet the priorities of people across the world. It does this by creating a global campaign entitled ‘Human Security for All’ (HS4A). ​
     

     

     
  • Mainstreaming the Human Security Business Partnership for the private sector, governments and the UN system

    Mainstreaming the Human Security Business Partnership for the Private Sector, Governments and the UN System

    Duration: September 2022 - December 2024
    Budget: US$431,205
    Implementing Agencies:

    Recognizing the essential role of the private sector as an employer, supplier and investor in all societies, including those facing complex development and conflict challenges, the international community is encouraging the meaningful engagement of the private sector in realizing sustainable development.
     

     

     
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    Making Cities and Human Settlements Safer after COVID-19: Strengthening Awareness of Safer Cities Tools applying a Human Security Framework

    Duration: March 2022 - April 2024
    Budget: US$450,000
    Implementing Agencies: UN-Habitat (lead), UNODC, UNODA, World Bank, OHCHR, HSU

    Today, half the world’s inhabitants reside in cities, a phenomenon driven by the continuous migration of people from rural to urban areas and the rapid demographic expansion of urban populations, especially in the poorest countries.
     

     

     
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    Development and Promotion of the Human Security Business Partnership Framework Towards the Achievement of the SDGs

    Duration: December 2017 - August 2021
    Budget: US$373,308
    Implementing Agencies: UNIDO and the London School of Economics

    Agenda 2030 calls for people-centred, integrated, and contextually relevant frameworks that leave no one behind. The programme through a series of global trainings and regional symposiums will build the capacity of UN staff, Government representatives, regional organizations and civil society groups on the application of the human security approach and its contribution to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
     

     

     
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    Promoting the human security integrated approach in the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals

    Duration: November 2016 - April 2018
    Budget: US$260,454
    Implementing Agencies: UNSSC

    Agenda 2030 calls for people-centred, integrated, and contextually relevant frameworks that leave no one behind. The programme through a series of global trainings and regional symposiums will build the capacity of UN staff, Government representatives, regional organizations and civil society groups on the application of the human security approach and its contribution to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
     

     

     

  • Advocacy and awareness-raising on addressing the impact of El Niño and climate change through a human security approach

    Duration: June 2016 - December 2016
    Budget: US$300,000
    Implementing Agencies: OCHA

    Through the deployment of two Special Envoys, the programme raised awareness on the impact of El Niño and climate change and led to the development and publication of the Blueprint for Action, which adopts the human security approach and its people-centred, comprehensive, context-specific and prevention-oriented principles.
     

     

     
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    Mainstreaming the Human Security Approach in Strengthening the Global Health Architecture

    Duration: May 2016 - August 2017
    Budget: US$811,005
    Implementing Agencies: Office of the Special Adviser on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Climate Change

    The Ebola outbreak and the response by governments and international organizations revealed shortcomings in the manner in which national and international systems were configured to respond to health emergencies. In April 2015, the Secretary-General commissioned the High-level Panel on the Global Response to Health Crises (“Panel”) to undertake a wide range of consultations and to make recommendations to strengthen national and international systems to prevent and manage future health crises taking into account lessons learned from the response to the outbreak of Ebola virus in West Africa.
     

     

     
  • Two women stand in a television studio. One woman is wearing a black blazer and has her hands in an open gesture. There is a television behind them which is showing the text ‘21st Century.’

    Production Partnership between United Nations Television and the Human Security Unit to produce five television features for global broadcast distribution

    Duration: August 2014 - July 2015
    Budget: US$148,891
    Implementing Agencies: DPI

     

     

     
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    Human Security Grants for Selected National Human Development Reports

    Duration: January 2008 - December 2012
    Budget: US$308,571
    Implementing Agencies: UNDP

    The programme offered targeted support to four countries (Benin, Djibouti, Pakistan and Uruguay) interested in producing National Human Development Reports (NHDRs) from the human security perspective. The programme provided valuable avenues for the application of the human security approach and its contribution towards national development plans.
     

     

     
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    Regional dynamics of human security: UN dialogue with the Global South

    Duration: May 2005 - April 2007
    Budget: US$115,266
    Implementing Agencies: DPA

    The programme contributed to discussions related to the 2005 UN summit on the Millennium Development Goals and the Report of the High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Changes. Specifically, the programme examined various approaches to the promotion of human security and presented practical experiences to generate human security initiatives by Governments.
     

     

     
  • A group of young women sit on the floor of a room in a medical centre and are smiling while looking at the camera. There is a security member standing at the back of the room wearing a bright orange and white vest.

    Enhancing capacity for the prevention and treatment of obstetric fistula in Nigeria, Pakistan and Mali

    Duration: January 2005 - December 2010
    Budget: US$997,052
    Implementing Agencies: UNICEF

    The programme was set up to complement ongoing efforts to prevent and treat obstetric fistula in three high priority countries – Nigeria, Mali and Pakistan. By capitalizing on available domestic expertise and knowledge, the programme strengthened capacities to prevent fistula from occurring while reintegrating women with fistula into their communities.  
     

     

     
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    Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN): Outreach radio programme in Afghanistan, Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, and Uganda

    Duration: January 2003 - December 2004
    Budget: US$2,087,109
    Implementing Agencies: OCHA

    The programme supported the operation of IRIN, a multimedia news service that served as an early warning system, alerting communities as well as the outside world to the pressing needs and the emerging threats in ten countries. The programme gave voice to the voiceless and strengthened the capacities of local journalists to report on issues in a fair and impartial manner.
     

     

     
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    Enhancing Human Security Through Gender Equality in the Context of HIV/AIDS

    Duration: October 2002 - March 2006
    Budget: US$3,030,000
    Implementing Agencies: UNIFEM

    The programme’s overall objective was to bring greater understanding on the interlinkage between gender inequalities and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Accordingly, the programme promoted gender awareness as central to HIV/AIDS education, and integrated women’s rights into legislation on HIV/AIDS policies at the local, national and regional levels.
     

     

     
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    Research on human security for policy making

    Duration: November 2001 - June 2003
    Budget: US$1,628,327
    Implementing Agencies: UNDP

    The programme increased the understanding of the human security approach by supporting research on the nexus between health, education and inequality and provided evidence-based information to establish integrated policies that took all three elements into consideration. Research produced by the programme was shared with the UN system, Member States, civil society, and academics.
     

     

     
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    Imagine coexistence: A programme to ensure the sustainable repatriation and reintegration of people returning to divided communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Rwanda

    Duration: January 2001 - March 2002
    Budget: US$1,262,500
    Implementing Agencies: UNHCR

    The programme supported the process of reintegration and co-existence in ethnically divided communities. By building the capacities of UNHCR and other humanitarian workers, the programme examined how initiatives in education, the arts, sports, and economic development can offer refugees, returnees, and other survivors of group conflict reasons to work together and create a base for relating constructively over time.
     

     

     
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