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In this light, planning and implementation of conflict-sensitive, long-term

This has increased the strain on the provision of electricity and caused

The Committee noted that the Pacific Islands Telecommunications Association (PITA) had been made the

The delegation of India, while noting the valuable work carried out by the Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre to provide tropical cyclone-related forecasts and advisories to countries in the region, expressed support for the plan of the Panel on

Examples were given of national, bilateral, regional and international programmes to further socio-economic and sustainable development, notably in the following areas: agriculture and fishery; climate change monitoring; detecting illegal crops and opium poppy cultivation; early warning of and response to natural and man-made disasters; geology; humanitarian relief; hydrology; managing ecosystems and natural resources; mapping biodiversity resources, coastal zones, land use, wasteland

With the use of special data (thermal images from the NOAA High Rate Picture Transmission (HRPT) satellites), aerial data (thermal images obtained with thermovisors) and land-based data (point measurements of infrared (IR)-thermal radiation temperature taken with IR-thermal thermometers and surface temperature measurements taken with contact probes) and thermal images obtained with thermovisors from the ground and dominant heights, the lowest-level temperature has been determined and, by means of spatial zoning, a thematic map (space map) has been elaborated, which will make it possible to

It had been an extremely challenging year, marked by three successive crises: the post-electoral violence in Côte d’Ivoire, which had displaced tens of thousands of people internally and almost 200,000 into neighbouring countries; the crisis in Libya, which had created some 1.5

The Committee also noted that space technology and applications, combined with non-space technologies, played an important role in addressing most water-related issues, including the understanding and observation of global water cycles and unusual climate patterns, the mapping of water courses,

The partnership of WFP with the World Bank and the Government of Ethiopia facilitated the

The Committee noted that climate change had been adversely affecting all regions of the world through a variety of processes such as global warming, reduction in the sea ice coverage and ice masses, sea-level rise, changes in large-scale current systems in oceans,

Major developments during 2008-2009 included (a) the launch of a cooperation framework on disaster risk reduction, (b) support from space

WFP is developing cash and voucher-based responses to the crisis in the Horn of Africa; in Kenya, cash-transfers totalling $26

It highlights a number of secretariat initiatives undertaken and planned, including regional studies, such as the ESCAP-ISDR Asia-Pacific Disaster Report, the launch of the Asia-Pacific Gateway for Disaster Risk Reduction and Development for sharing information and best practices, ICT capacity-building through APCICT, the launch of the space information-based

Recalling his country’s experience in

While noting that the work of RESAP had contributed to the

Recognizing that low-lying and other small island countries, countries with low-lying

The Russian Federation was prepared to continue supporting

The Security Council expresses its concern over the fragile security and humanitarian situation

In August 2011, under a $10 million emergency humanitarian aid programme for the countries in the Horn of Africa, Algeria had begun airlifting food, medicine

It also highlights various initiatives under the Regional Space Applications Programme for Sustainable Development (RESAP), including the

Among other things, mention should be made here of the Livestock Emergency Intervention to Mitigate Food Crisis in Somalia, whose objective it is to equip pastoralists and other concerned communities with assets and services that

Because the need to promote self-reliance and stimulate the local economy is well understood, cash payments have been

WFP activities continue uninterrupted in Mogadishu, with 16 operational community kitchens distributing more than 80,000

Nearly 1 billion people are undernourished3 and this number may increase even further as a result of the global financial crisis, sustained high levels of unemployment, increased food price

They are affected mainly by problems that include coastal flooding, the disappearance of some islands