Providing training on navigating personal safety and security in Egypt
Riina Allinen is a former UN Volunteer Gender Security Training Associate and Operations Assistant at the UN Development Programme (UNDP). In this article, Riina shares how she contributed to publishing a booklet on gender security and gender focal point training within the UN system. Her assignment was fully funded by the Government of Finland, and closely related to Finish development policy and the National Action Plan for implementing the women's peace and security agenda.
I joined UNDP's Regional Bureau for the Arab States in Egypt as a UN Youth Volunteer Gender Security Training Associate in April 2020. In 2021, I extended my assignment as a UN Volunteer specialist until March 2022, also funded by the Government of Finland.
Promoting human security through sustainable resettlement
The UN Trust Fund for Human Security (UNTFHS) finances activities carried out by UN organizations to provide sustainable benefits to vulnerable people and communities and through this, demonstrates the added value of the human security approach. Meet three UN Volunteers – Justin, Gideon and Namakau – who promote human security through sustainable resettlements in Zambia.
There are over 73,000 persons of concern in Zambia, including refugees, asylum seekers and former refugees, many of whom have been living in the country since the 1950s.