A day in the life: UNDP health and safety expert, Cyprus

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A day in the life: UNDP health and safety expert, Cyprus

Monday, April 30th, 2012

Martina Zaccaro UNDP Partnership for the Future, Cyprus

To mark World Day for Safety and Health at Work, we accompanied Fatma Terlik, health and safety focal point for the UNDP Partnership for the Future Programme in Cyprus, as she toured various on-going construction sites.

With more than 55 civil works contracts awarded in the past five years – ranging from 10,000 to 25 million euros each – and approximately 800 workers employed – health and safety quickly became a priority issue for UNDP in Cyprus. Fatma’s site inspections are all-encompassing, as she inspects personal protection equipment, scaffolding, emergency situation plans, first aid, manual handling and tools to make sure they meet standards.

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Tags:construction, Cyprus, health, ILO, infrastructure, International Labour Organization, Martina Zaccaro, Nicosia, Partnerships for the Future, safety
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Round up: Fellowship and training opportunities for young people

Friday, September 9th, 2011

Blythe Fraser

Here’s a quick round-up of fellowship and training opportunities we came across recently which we thought might be of interest to our readers:

If you are you a young scholar from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine, you might be interested in applying for the Russia-Eurasia – Robert Bosch Fellowship at Chatham House
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Tags:Carnegie, Chatham House, fellowships, Open Society Foundations, opportunities, OSI, Roma, training, young people, youth
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It is not “Equal Pay for Equal Work” for women – in the workplace, and on the football ground

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

Koh Miyaoi

As a Japanese national, I was keen to join the celebrations for the victory of our women’s football team at the FIFA World Cup in Frankfurt until the festive mood quickly turned into the disappointing realization of yet another example of gender pay gap. There is no difference between the rules for men’s football games and the rules for women’s football games. And yet, the women who won the World Cup received ¥1.5 million each from the Japan Football Association for their first place finish whereas the men who didn’t reach the quarter finals in last year’s World Cup in South Africa received at least ¥10 million each. If that’s not discrimination, what is – I wonder.

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Tags:data, equality, EU, FIFA, football, gender equality, Koh Miyaoi, paygap, women
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Introducing a new blogger

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

Today the Voices from Eurasia blog is very pleased to welcome a new blogger to the team – Yana Chicherina. Yana is the Project Manager for UNDP’s “Inclusive employment and Social Partnership” project in Uzbekistan. She is based in Taskhent. Yana has a PhD in education from Tashkent State Pedagogical University and a diploma on social work from the Tashkent State Institute of Culture. She is the first project manager from a country office to join our blog and we are truly excited to have her on board. She will provide her perspective and insights from UNDP’s work on the ground.

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Focus on international internships: Early career development matters!

Friday, May 13th, 2011

Lyra Jakuleviciene

I led the UNDP office in Lithuania for the last four years – I was 32 back then. This is the highest UN position that you can get as a national staff. And it all started from an internship, when I was given an opportunity to serve as a first Baltic trainee in the regional UNHCR office. Having come back to my country, I worked for the UN since 1997. The internship gave me not only work and life experience in a foreign country, but also lots of self-confidence.

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