The United Nations is looking for highly qualified candidates who are ready to launch a professional career as an international civil servant. The young professionals programme (YPP) is a recruitment initiative that brings new talent to the United Nations through an annual entrance examination. For young, high-calibre professionals across the globe, the examination is a platform for launching a career at the United Nations. This programme builds upon the national competitive recruitment examination (NCRE) which was held for the last time in 2010.

Secretariat of the United Nations through its Office for Human Resources Management (OHRM) will conduct the selection test for prospective employees of the United Nations in the professional category with Young Professionals Programme (YPP) in 2012.

The main requirements to follow YPP is a minimum of education degree in a relevant field of work available, from a maximum of 32 years on December 31, 2012, and the current use English or French.

Exam will be held on Day Wednesday, December 5, 2012. Field work ('Job families') are available consisting of architecture, economics, information technology, political science, social science, and producer of radio broadcasts in Portuguese and Kiswahili.

Source and More Informations:

https://careers.un.org/lbw/home.aspx?viewtype=NCE

Closing Date: December 12,2012:

The EU FAO FLEGT programme will issue one call for proposals in the year 2012 and in 2013. Calls for proposals are opened to local stakeholders (government, civil society and private sector organizations). Each project is limited to a maximum of 100 000 EUR.

Projects selected through the call for proposals mechanism will support initiatives that improve forest governance as defined in a national programme, advance the FLEGT process or address one element of the EU FLEGT Action Plan.

The EU FAO FLEGT Programme is a four-year initiative that supports stakeholders in the enforcement of forest law, governance and trade exchanges. This support is provided to countries engaged in the negotiations or the implementation of a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) with the European Union – known as “VPA countries” within the framework of these guidelines – but also to wood-producing developing countries and/or those who are major players in wood products trade, which are known as “non-VPA countries”.

Eligible Country:

Africa:

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cape Verde, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

East Asia Pacific:

Cambodia, Fiji, Dem. Rep. Korea, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Vanuatu

South Asia:

Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka

Latin America and Caribbean:

Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname.

Source and More Informations:

http://www.fao.org/forestry/eu-flegt/78035/en/

Closing Date: November 8,2012:

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Water, Sanitation & Hygiene team is working with partners to develop sustainable sanitation services that work for everyone. Our approach aims to expand the use of sanitation that does not connect to a sewer, as this is by far the most common type used by the poor. We invest in effective approaches that help end open defecation and unsafe sanitation and we help develop the tools and technologies that will increase access to sustainable non-piped sanitation for the urban poor.

The Sanitation Challenge:

A large share of the solids and liquids people eat and drink are passed on in urine and feces. Human waste contains potentially valuable and recyclable resources such as water, energy, urea, and minerals. It also consists of large amounts of useful as well as harmful microorganisms, mostly bacteria, as well as pathogens ranging in size from viruses to helminthes. Many diseases are passed on from person to person through the fecal-oral pathway—pathogens in one person’s waste end up ingested by another. For some diseases, this is the primary transmission pathway; for others, it is one of several transmission pathways. Human waste also contains residues of the many complex, engineered chemicals people use, such as food additives, antibiotics, hormones, and nutritional supplements, some of which remain in the environment and result in unsafe accumulation in waste sinks.

Goal of This Request for Letters of Inquiry:

The third round of the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge is designed to prototype a means of dealing effectively and cost-efficiently with human waste for the 2.5 billion people on earth who currently lack access to safe and affordable sanitation.

Successful applicants will participate in the next phase of the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge by designing, prototyping and testing entirely stand-alone, self-contained, practical sanitation modules which intake bodily wastes or fecal sludge collected from pit latrines and septic tanks and swiftly dispose of them without any incoming water piping, outgoing sewer piping or electric or gas utility services. These modules must intake all outputs of the serviced population – ultimately at single-residence scales (smaller-scale individual family toilet solutions) or group of households (larger-scale neighborhood fecal sludge processor solutions)– with minimal module footprints and assured biosafety. The anticipated capital and operational cost for the final products (commercial units) is expected to be less than $0.05/user/day, both for the family and neighborhood solutions. The design should anticipate the effects and fate of complementary sanitary products entering the system such as paper, cloth, sand, and other personal hygiene products and chemicals. 

Source and More Informations:

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/watersanitationhygiene/Pages/loi-round3-reinvent-toilet-challenge.aspx