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NEWS News round-up PHOTOREPORTER/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM Gender work gap cost ‘now surpassing GDPs’ – report Gender inequality in work costs women in poor countries $9 trillion each year – more than the combined gross domestic products of the UK, France, and Germany – according to research report by international development agency, ActionAid. The inequality exists because women get paid less than men, and do not attain the same levels of employment. The report, ‘Close the Gap’, calls for exploitation of women’s work to receive more attention. Closing the gender pay gap and gender employment gap could, dramatically improve, women’s lives, and as well as help their wider communities, as women tend to spend increased income on food, health, and Women’s care comes with a cost Maltese singer and personality, Ira Losco has been appointed as the island’s goodwill ambassador for sustainable development, Malta Today has reported. The 33-year-old artist has had a succession of top-charting recordings, and competed for Malta in the 2002 Eurovision Song Contest, finishing second. “I am very honoured by this title, and I understand it is a great responsibility,” Losco told an conference audience of representatives of the Mediterranean Commission for Sustainable Development (MCSD). “I will... use my position to promote sustainable development in my everyday life, and to bring this concept closer to members of society who might not be aware of how [they] can make a change themselves.” education of their families. The report found two main causes of the huge inequality in the developing world. First, across the developing world, women do the most exploitative forms of work – jobs such as garment makers, roadside hawkers, and domestic servants – for the lowest wages. The second causes is that women do not get the same employment opportunities as men, because they spend so much of their time caring for children, the sick, and the elderly – all work that is largely invisible and totally unpaid. In poor countries women’s burden is increased by having to spend time on collecting fuel and water, and taking-up the slack when governments cannot fund basic health and education services. Women living in poverty have a vast mine of untapped potential which could improve their own lives and those of their families, the report concludes: ‘The costs of economic inequality to women are not only monetary, but also affect their life choices, leaving them vulnerable to violence and other forms of discrimination and exploitation’. ActionAid is calling for concerted action from governments, businesses and international institutions to value women’s work in its entirety – from caring for families and communities, to toiling long hours on the factory floor. ‘Food security and gender’ – page 56 Malta music star Losco made sustainable development ambassador Losco added: “Some concepts and terminology [around sustainable development] might seem complicated to some people, and... it will be my task to help society understand that they need not necessarily be so confusing.” Maltese Minister for Environment, Sustainable Development, and Climate Change, Leo Brincat, told conference delegates that it was important to have a guiding strategy to inspire and direct activities in sustainable development that can benefit all stakeholders and members of the public, both in Malta and the Mediterranean region, according to the report. More details at http://www.unepmap.org/index. php?module=content2&catid=001017002 RAIN project wins prestigious agriculture-for-nutrition award A project that aims to improve under-nutrition and mortality rates in children under two years old that’s been rolled out in Zambia has won an international World Bank award for its potential impact on nutrition in developing countries. The project, known as RAIN (Realigning Agriculture to Improve Nutrition) – a joint imitative been humanitarian NGO Concern Worldwide and food processing firm Kerry Group – was a winner in the Harvesting Nutrition Contest awards for bridging the gaps between nutrition, agriculture and food security. Launched in 2011 by Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney, the RAIN project has seen Kerry Group contribute €1.25m of the overall €3.7m budget to the five-year initiative. The World Bank, in collaboration with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and Save the Children UK, selected RAIN one of three winning projects of the SecureNutrition Knowledge Platform’s 2013 Harvesting Nutrition Contest for bridging the gaps between nutrition and agriculture and/or food security. As the winner in the category entitled ‘Potential Impact on Nutrition’, the RAIN project will receive a boost of $5,000 (approximately €4,465), and will also be documented by a multimedia portrait. Under-nutrition results in stunting - and is the underlying cause of 3.5m deaths a year ANTON_IVANOV/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM 8 SDD_News.indd 8 04/03/2015 13:53
NEWS SDG investment in youth ‘could help counter extremism’ ALASTAIR WALLACE/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM Siemens wins technology partnership for Triangulum project Manchester City Council has selected Siemens as the technology partner to The University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University, and IT Solutions provider, www.clicksandlinks.com, on the pioneering European-wide smart city project Triangulum, in a contract worth around €6million over five years. The project will aim to transform the city’s ‘Manchester Corridor’ student district into a ‘smart quarter.’ Supported by European Commission’s ‘Smart Cities and Communities’ Horizon 2020 funding call, the Triangulum project will install a range of energy management technologies in a number of Manchester Corridor’s buildings, developing an autonomous energy grid that demonstrates how the entire district could be supplied with heat and electricity. The Corridor covers some 243 hectares and is home to The University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University, and The Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – making the Corridor the largest academic campus in the UK and also the largest clinical academic campus in Europe. Siemens will lead the energy-related aspects of the Triangulum project in Manchester, connecting-up a number of local energy generation assets, electrical storage devices and buildings, within the Corridor to a centralised control platform. The Triangulum project is led by Fraunhofer IAO with the support of the Steinbeis-Europa Zentrum, and involves 23 European partners. Investment in social sectors as part of SDG programmes would help address extremist recruitment, outgoing United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Co-ordinator in Pakistan, Timo Pakala, has said. In a newspaper interview, Pakala said that a growing number of the country’s young people and out-of-school children were becoming major challenges for its security and economic development. Appreciating the efforts of the federal and provincial governments to come together to work on education under the Millennium Development Goals, Pakala was also quoted as saying that the Pakistan government was now making efforts to overcome bottlenecks to send 6 million children to school. GOC wants ‘ocean SDG’ to counter wave of high-seas ‘anarchy’ The Global Ocean Commission (GOC) has called for a stand-alone Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for the global ocean, in an effort to catalyse the development of more co-ordinated ocean management and the restoration of ocean health. It has warned that the high seas, the portion of the global ocean outside national jurisdiction that covers 45 per cent of the planet’s surface, and contains more than 50 per cent of its biodiversity, are suffering from over-exploitation and ineffective management. “The high seas are in a state of anarchy,” said GOC Co-chair David Miliband. “Regional stability, food security, climate resilience, and a flourishing ‘blue economy’ are all at risk. Fragmented and inadequate management has pushed ocean systems to the point of collapse – a stand-alone SDG for the ocean can deliver integrated and holistic management across the whole ocean system.” Miliband adds: “Healthy oceans must be at the centre of the global sustainable development agenda post-2015. SDGs present an opportunity to recognise ocean threats, and “Moving on to the SDGs does not [now] mean that challenges aren’t there,” he told The Express Tribune last month. “You cannot have sustainable economic development unless you have well educated, well nourished, and healthy population. There is no shortcut to development.” “If I look at the trends from 2010, disasters have taught the country a lot,” he says. “There is a positive trajectory in the capacity of the country’s response.” Pakala added that the safe return of the 1.6m displaced population remains a major challenge for Pakistan, and the UN was working with the government of Pakistan to find a sustainable solution to the displacement issue. Miliband: high seas are in a state of ‘anarchy’ to galvanise efforts by governments and civil society – including the private sector and NGOs – to work together in pursuit of targets and indicators that are bold, ambitious, and pragmatic.” The GOC – an independent international body addressing ocean health and high seas governance – was created to propose solutions to address the principal threats facing the global ocean, including acidification, illegal and destructive fishing, overfishing, plastic pollution, and inadequate governance. It will publish proposals for reform in mid-2014. 9 UN PHOTO/ESKINDER DEBEBE SDD_News.indd 9 04/03/2015 13:53
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