The spread of the novel coronavirus created enormous challenges for health workers everywhere. The volume of information and the lack of trust in sources compounded these challenges, making it difficult for an already overburdened health workforce to manage information and apply trusted evidence to practice. Faced with this, the WHO Academy team dedicated its technological … Continued
The world is interdependent. We have known it for some time. But with COVID-19, we are now experiencing it. We also know that addressing global challenges requires us to work together. New technologies ignore borders and can connect the world’s brightest minds to collaborate and accelerate research, drive innovation and enrich education. But, without access … Continued
The Comprehensive Planning and Performance Assessment System (CPAS) provides a concrete solution to assess the impact of UN peacekeeping, which contributes to strengthening global governance. CPAS provides missions with a tool to more systematically assess their operating environment and show progress towards those goals using data and analysis, which are used to track impact over … Continued
Building on a pre-existing partnership between the UN, EU and WB, COVID-19 Recovery Needs Assessments (CRNAs) provide a macro, meso and micro level analysis and develops prioritized recovery needs with costs under a coordinated and government-owned process. This can ensure alignment of the development community behind one comprehensive government-wide strategy which can be converted to … Continued
The UNDP’s Digital Socio-economic Impact Assessment (SEIA) is a reliable and flexible end-to-end digital assessment toolkit designed to support decision makers in crisis-affected countries. Digital SEIA enables rapid mobile data collection and visualization, with a strong focus on vulnerable groups. The toolkit can be tailored to the needs of various stakeholders, while facilitating multidimensional analyses … Continued
Recognition of education qualifications from one’s home country is essential to access to further studies and/or for seeking employment opportunities in a new country. To support and ensure that refugees are able to participate in the job market or pursue further studies, UNESCO has initiated a pilot project on the evaluation of refugees’ qualifications in … Continued
The project aims to strengthen resilience to misinformation in countries vulnerable to conflict, protecting the health of members of fragile societies and avoiding the destabilization of peace processes. It is a short-term project linked to the temporality of COVID-19 crisis and deployed in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean. The initiative is funded by … Continued
The #CoronaVirusFacts Alliance is the largest collaborative fact-checking project ever seen and it’s led by the International Fact-Checking Network. The Alliance unites 99 fact-checking organizations from all over the world in publishing, sharing and translating facts surrounding the novel coronavirus. Launched in January 2020, when the spread of the virus was restricted to Asia but … Continued
CAIAC is a comprehensive and authoritative “sense-making” platform combining collective and augmented intelligence to map and advance our common knowledge of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact. It empowers decision makers around the world to respond to the health, economic, and social implications of the pandemic in a coordinated fashion, using a dynamic knowledge graph … Continued
SATMED is an e-medicine software developed for satellite, and thus accessible everywhere on simple digital devices. It is owned by the Government of Luxemburg and aims to help healthcare providers to make better use of e-medical/health technology and services with a focus on remote and underdeveloped areas. SATMED is an operation launched in 2014 and … Continued
