Peter van de Pol

Big admirer of all those people who make social and institutional innovation happen every day, one step at the time. Tweets are mine.

[UNDP Yemen @UNDPYemen]

زيارة لوفد الاتحاد الأوروبي لمدرسة للبنات في #عدن اليوم.

بعد عقدٍ من الخراب، تم تأهيل مدرسة بلقيس واستئناف سير عملية التعليم لأكثر من 1,800 طالبة من أربع مناطق مجاورة.

شكراً لمشرو�� #SIERY ، والتخطيط الرائع لمكتب التعليم بالمديرية وتمويل الإتحاد الأوروبي.

#UNDPEUpartnership

[UNDP Yemen @UNDPYemen]

خلال الزيارة الميدانية اليوم الى #لحج، التقى وفد الاتحاد الأوروبي في #اليمن بأعضاء مجالس تعاون القرى.

كجزء من مشروع الحوكمة المحلية التابع لـ @UNDP و @SFDYemen ، اطلع الوفد على كيفية عمل الأعضاء لتطوير خطط الصمود وتحديد احتياجات مجتمعاتهم.

#EUPartnership🇪🇺

[EUinYemen @EUinYemen]

EU 🇪🇺 Ambassadors visited today Belqees Girl School in #Aden, which has been renovated and equipped through the EU-funded @UNDPYemen SIERY programme. They had interesting exchanges with girl students. Under SIERY, many schools have been renovated and equipped across #Yemen.

[Catarina Tully @CatTullyFOH]

A great example of how #youth, #foresight, #intergenerationaldialogue, #futuresmethodsaroundtheworld, can come together to shape #visions for desirable futures - in this case #African #digitalfutures
@jmoreiradasilva @PetrusPol @Gina_labs @JenColville10 @akrishnan23 @gquaggiotto

[UNDP Brussels @UNDPEU]

Local authorities are key to address immediate & long-term needs of ALL #Yemenis. @UNDP & @EU_Partnerships work to build their capacity & resilience thru new project Strengthening Institutional & Economic Resilience in #Yemen (#SIERY). Learn more: https://t.co/rlaOc2hGty

[UNDP Yemen @UNDPYemen]

#EU’s Ambassador to #Yemen, H.E. Hans Grunberg, speaks to the @EU_Partnerships with @UNDP and the fact that Yemen’s foundation must be laid today. The #EU is committed to going beyond emergency support and plan for the future now.

[UNDP Yemen @UNDPYemen]

"#SIERY’s unique approach endeavours to go beyond the traditional scope of support...focusing on trust-building, #ClimateAction, addressing 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 displacement, & supporting local economic dev," @AukeLootsma.

@UNDP & @EU_Partnerships NEW Project 👉https://t.co/FUbforFkeR

[UNDP Yemen @UNDPYemen]

"Together, we help vulnerable people meet their most urgent needs while building #resilience to future shocks," @AukeLootsma on importance of @UNDP & @EU_Partnerships commitment in #Yemen.

Let's build a stronger Yemen, more capable of responding to crisis!

#YemenCantWait

[UNDP Live tweeting @UNDPLive]

"We need to support Yemeni efforts to strengthen their own institutions - this is an essential step to support long term development."

Karolina Hedstrom, Head of Cooperation, @EUinYemen
#DevelopmentDialogues

[EUinYemen @EUinYemen]

@UNDP and the European Union enter the largest agreement to improve the economic and social wellbeing in #Yemen

#EUinYemen #YemenCantWait #SIERY

Full statement:

https://t.co/wsZACz0xOX

[Achim Steiner @ASteiner]

.@UNDP is proud 2 partner w @europeaid on Strengthening Institutional & Economic Resilience in #Yemen. This new initiative is 🔑 2 forging new paths 4 inclusive & #sustainable growth 2 #LeaveNoOneBehind 👉https://t.co/L97QVjztX5 @JuttaUrpilainen @EUinYemen #YemenCantWait #SIERY

[UNDP Somalia @UNDPSomalia]

Sadly, human rights won’t enforce themselves - so today we’re looking at how @UNDP supports #Puntland police to protect women and girls from violence in this #IDP camp in Garowe.

#HumanRightsDay
#StandUp4HumanRights

[Peter van de Pol @PetrusPol]

RPA might just be the solution for the UN to get its ever expanding bureaucracy under control... https://t.co/oJEauN4KMH via @GovInsider

[Joao Scarpelini (he/him) 🇧🇷🇮🇹 @joaoscarpelini]

The 1st ever @UNSomalia Youth Advisory Board has been finally formed. After 300+ applications, the Board is diverse, gender-balanced & representative! 18 members representing #Adaado, #Baidoa, #Beledweyne, #Dollow, #Garowe, #Jowhar, #Kismayo & #Mogadishu
🇸🇴🧕🏿👨🏿‍🦲🧕🏿👨🏿‍🦱🇺🇳#SomaliYouth

[Peter van de Pol @PetrusPol]

Yup. Meritocracy. Sure thing: Britain’s top jobs still in hands of private school elite, study finds https://t.co/KBDUFhFw2G

[Rushdi Rahim @Rushdi_Rahim]

Insightful conversation with colleagues from Oman 2040 vision office on foresight & futures thinking. Sharing on how we do it at #myForesight & @mightmalaysia using #foresight for better decision making & building capacity for #futuresthinking. Working together for #BetterFutures

[Durable Solutions Unit- BRA @DSUBenadir]

Busy day for team DSU, our technical team presented their findings from the recent site visit! Here is Francesco from UNHABITAT giving a short presentation on social housing designs. The process for designing & planning 300 new homes in Benadir for IDPs has officially started! 🏡

[giulio quaggiotto @gquaggiotto]

Like the idea of "free range public servants": doing their jobs outside, on the ground, in the city and close to citizens, rather than remaining at their desk https://t.co/DQosOXmPVl via @laurenstaceyw @si_exchange #psilabs

[Peter van de Pol @PetrusPol]

Hang on! Data that debunk some precious ‘evidence-based good practice’ orthodoxies? the World Bank’s New Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators Database https://t.co/ieiVEUtL6R @maxevp