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Jokko, was developed by UNICEF, Dimagi, and Tostan to help teach literacy in West Africa. [32] [33] [34] Textonic, developed by students in Clay Shirky's 2009 Design For UNICEF course at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program to extend RapidSMS to Amazon.com's Amazon Mechanical Turk service. [35]
UNICAF has established branch campuses and learning centres in African nations such as South Africa, the DRC, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Since its inception, it has enrolled more than 60,000 students in its partnership programs. [5]
A UNICEF club is a student-led grassroots club present at high school and college levels of education, formed for the purpose of promoting the values of the parent organization the United Nations Children's Fund or UNICEF. The stated goal of the club is "to empower youth with the resources and skills to be effective global citizens" and "to ...
The CTI Education Group (CTI) was a registered, private higher education institution in South Africa. [2] Full-time and part-time students can study within the fields of Information Technology, Psychology & Counselling, Creative Arts & Graphic Design, Commerce and Law on campuses spread throughout South Africa.
Established in 1996, it is the UN's official headquarters in Africa. [1] The United Nations Office at Nairobi also hosts the global headquarters for two programmes: the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) [2] and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat). [3]
The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS), was created in 2003 at the request of the United Nations High-Level Committee on Management, managed by the World Food Programme (), provides common air services, including light cargo transport for the wider humanitarian community to and from areas of crisis and intervention.
American soldier instructing Senegalese soldiers on U.N. peacekeeping policies during training for the African Crisis Response Initiative in Thiès, Senegal.. The African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA) program, formerly the African Crisis Response Initiative (ACRI), is a United States program to train military trainers and equip African national militaries to conduct ...
In 2007, UNFPA in partnership with UNICEF, launched a $44 million program to reduce the practice by 40 per cent in 16 countries by 2015 and to end it within a generation. UNFPA also recently sponsored a Global Technical Consultation, [ 14 ] which drew experts from all over the world to discuss strategies to convince communities to abandon the ...