Regional Collective Action to Address Covid-19 and Prepare for Future Pandemics

Needed in the Global South: Wastewater Collection for COVID-19 Detection

Monitoring wastewater for COVID-19 provides real-time insight into viral spread, enabling timely preventative and coping measures.

New UN Study Reveals Limited Impact of Tax and Social Protection Policies in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa

Tax and benefit policies provided limited income protection to poorest households and failed to offset the increase in poverty amid COVID-19.

Hannah Thinyane

Sophie Zinser

A Step Forward for Palermo’s Trafficking Protocol, This Time Integrating Frontier Technology

New technology can combat the roots of human trafficking by identifying hotspots, patterns, and factors that exacerbate vulnerabilities beyond gender.

Alexandra Patricia Ann Sheaffer

Alex Sheaffer is part of the EMIC team as a PROWELLMIGRANT Research Assistant at UNU-EHS, supporting research on (im)mobility decisions, migration, health, and wellbeing in the context of disasters.

UNU-CPR Bolsters Peace and Conflict Prevention Expertise

Dr Erica Gaston has been appointed Senior Policy Advisor and Head of the Conflict Prevention and Sustaining Peace Programme at UNU-CPR.

New UN Tool Maps Floods Since 1985

United Nations University-led experts have debuted a new tool that generates instant, accurate street-level resolution maps of floods worldwide.

Stress Testing the UN’s Regional Prevention Approaches

This project was driven by the key question: How can the UN better integrate its regional prevention work to more effectively respond to major crises?