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  Protecting older people against COVID-19

Indeed, outbreaks of COVID-19 have been reported at long-term care facilities in countries of the Western Pacific Region.  (...) WHO also offers a free, online course for long-term care facility staff in the context of COVID-19 . (...) Participants learn to describe infection prevention and control principles and practices relevant to long-term care facilities for patient and staff safety, apply the COVID-19 long-term care facility preparedness checklist to their place of work, identify practices to safely manage long-term care facility residents, and understand how to support themselves and each other as staff of long-term care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Score: 632730.03 - https://www.who.int/japan/news...-older-people-against-covid-19

  Protecting older people against COVID-19

Indeed, outbreaks of COVID-19 have been reported at long-term care facilities in countries of the Western Pacific Region.  (...) WHO also offers a free, online course for long-term care facility staff in the context of COVID-19 . (...) Participants learn to describe infection prevention and control principles and practices relevant to long-term care facilities for patient and staff safety, apply the COVID-19 long-term care facility preparedness checklist to their place of work, identify practices to safely manage long-term care facility residents, and understand how to support themselves and each other as staff of long-term care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Score: 632730.03 - https://www.who.int/republicof...-older-people-against-covid-19

  PowerPoint Presentation

PowerPoint Presentation Sovereign Wealth Funds Investment in Sustainable Development Sectors Rajiv Sharma High-level Conference on Financing for Development and the Means of Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Doha, Qatar, 18-19 November 2017) The Growth of Sovereign Wealth Funds • $6.5 trillion capital globally • Growing $500-600m annually since 2008/2009 Sovereign Wealth Funds – Types and Implications • Stabilization Funds - are created with the objective to assist balancing short-term fiscal positions for a government • Reserve Funds - are set up with the objective of investing excess reserves for the benefit of future generations • Pension Reserve or ‘Buffer’ Funds - saving surpluses that will be used for a specific purpose in the future. • Development Funds - set up with the primary objective to fund socioeconomic projects or to invest in specific sectors within a country SDGs and Long Term Investment • Sustainable Development Goals are essentially an issue of long-term investment. • We need well directed focused long-term investment in order address the most pressing challenges of our time such as climate change, urbanisation and infrastructure, poverty reduction. • SWFs theoretically can provide substantial long-term investment at scale. • There are a number of barriers that are inhibiting long-term investment by SWFs. • Liabilities • Risk appetite • Behavioural and Psychological Issues • Resource Capability Sovereign Wealth Fund Models of Investment • Norway Model - traditional public market assets – equities or fixed income. Largely in-sourced team with a small allocation to external managers to achieve its objectives. • Endowment Model - based on adding risk to the portfolio by investing in private market asset classes such as private equity, real estate, infrastructure, hedge funds through external managers • Canadian Model - characterised through largely insourced (direct) investment with a higher allocation than most to private market alternative asset classes • Collaborative Model – private market, long-term investments through new partnerships - co-investment platforms/vehicles, joint ventures and seeding managers. (...) Sovereign Wealth Funds Investment in Sustainable Development Sectors The Growth of Sovereign Wealth Funds Sovereign Wealth Funds – Types and Implications SDGs and Long Term Investment Sovereign Wealth Fund Models of Investment SDG Exposure across all asset classes Case Studies

Score: 632584.57 - https://www.un.org/esa/ffd/hig...ereign-Wealth-Funds_Sharma.pdf

  WHO | Defusing the demographic “time-bomb” in Germany

If they can, recipients supplement the long-term care insurance with other insurance or pension schemes. (...) Other long-term care systems are funded by tax revenues to varying extents depending on the country. (...) UN Photo Elderly people in the Republic of Korea, one of four countries with a long-term care insurance system But while Germany’s long-term care insurance system has received international recognition, its future sustainability is in doubt.

Score: 632165.04 - https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/90/1/12-020112/en/

  ITU – Telecommunications Standardization Sector

Indexing past the short-term pictures must cause a reference to a long-term picture, so the decoder must know how many short-term pictures it is expected to keep. (...) The default order is for the short-term pictures (i.e., pictures which have not been given a long-term index) to precede the long-term pictures in the reference indexing order. (...) The pictures stored in the multi-picture buffers can also be divided into two categories: long-term pictures and short-term pictures. A long-term picture can st

Score: 631528.56 - https://www.itu.int/wftp3/av-a...Osa/PostMeeting/AnnU_LTPr5.doc

  Long-term symptoms of COVID-19 ‘really concerning’, says WHO chief | | 1UN News

Facebook Twitter Print Email Long-term symptoms of COVID-19 ‘really concerning’, says WHO chief 30 October 2020 Health With some COVID-19 patients reporting long-term symptoms, including damage to major organs, the World Health Organization ( WHO ) has urged governments to ensure they receive the care they need. (...) “It is imperative that governments recognize the long-term effects of COVID-19 and also ensure access to health services to all of these patients,” he said.  (...) Against herd immunity  Stories like this underline how people facing the long-term effects of COVID-19 must be given the time and care they need to recover fully, according to the WHO chief. 

Score: 631466.65 - https://news.un.org/story/2020/10/1076562

  Long-term care for older people: A new global gender priority | UN Women – Headquarters

Nevertheless, current debates about long-term care for older persons are remarkably narrow. (...) Second, even in developed countries where long-term care has been on the public agenda for some time, it is rarely discussed in gendered terms. (...) As this brief shows, however, long-term care always has costs, even if it is provided by family members on an unpaid basis.

Score: 631241.9 - https://www.unwomen.org/en/dig...ong-term-care-for-older-people

  HIGH LEVEL MEETING O

HIGH LEVEL MEETING ON THE FEASIBILITY OF A LONG-TERM ASPIRATIONAL GOAL FOR INTERNATIONAL AVIATION CO2 EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS (HLM-LTAG) Montréal, 19 to 22 July 2022 Agenda Item 1: CO2 emissions reduction scenarios and options for a long-term global aspirational goal for international aviation Agenda Item 3: Means of monitoring progress and next steps Agenda Item 4: Conclusions and Recommendations of the Meeting TOWARDS AN AMBITIOUS LONG-TERM GLOBAL ASPIRATIONAL GOAL FOR INTERNATIONAL AVIATION (Presented by Czechia on behalf of the European Union and its Member States1 and the other Member States of the European Civil Aviation Conference2) SUMMARY Significant CO2 emissions reductions from international aviation in line with the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement are needed. The Long-Term Aspirational Goal (LTAG) report prepared by CAEP contains an analysis of scenarios on CO2 emissions, costs and impacts on aviation growth, in all countries especially developing countries. (...) Any forecast into the long-term future inevitably attracts significant uncertainty, as documented in the LTAG report.

Score: 630816.26 - https://www.icao.int/Meetings/...ocuments/HLM.LTAG.WP.18.en.pdf

  A Detailed Analysis Registered Long-term Unemployed Jobseekers | United Nations Development Programm

A Detailed Analysis Registered Long-term Unemployed Jobseekers | United Nations Development Programme Skip to main content Albania Who we are What we do Our impact Get involved Global Nav toggle Search Who we are What we do Our impact Get involved English Locations Long-term Unemployed Jobseekers in Albania final report.pdf pdf (2.5 MB) Home Albania Publications A Detailed Analysis Registered Long-term Unemployed Jobseekers A Detailed Analysis Registered Long-term Unemployed Jobseekers Long-term Unemployed Jobseekers in Albania final report.pdf pdf (1MB) Download A Detailed Analysis Registered Long-term Unemployed Jobseekers May 10, 2022 This report provides a detailed analysis of the size, demographic and socio-economic characteristics of low educated, long-term registered unemployed job seekers (29+) in Albania   Document Type Case study Issue brief Policy brief Research – Discussion Papers Regions and Countries Albania Europe & Central Asia Sustainable Development Goals Goal 08: Decent work and economic growth Topics Agenda 2030 Data and statistics for development Related Publications Publications Report of the annual public opinion poll in Albania “Trus...

Score: 630755.37 - https://www.undp.org/albania/p...ong-term-unemployed-jobseekers

  Why we should care? About Long-term Care | United Nations For Ageing

Why we should care? About Long-term Care | United Nations For Ageing Skip to Content Welcome to the United Nations Toggle navigation Department of Economic and Social Affairs Ageing Search UN DESA Home About Us *COVID-19 IAGA UNIDOP Issues Briefing Series Resources News Contact Us Home About Us *COVID-19 IAGA UNIDOP Issues Briefing Series Resources News Contact Us Home Why we should care? About Long-term Care Why we should care? About Long-term Care 17 December 2017 UN WOMEN and UN DESA Focal Point on Ageing jointly held an interactive brown-bag on 7 December 2017 to discuss “Why we should care? About Long-term Care”. In the context of rapid population ageing, long-term care (LTC) for older people has become an urgent issue for gender equality and human rights everywhere, but policy responses have been slow—putting the well-being both older people and their caregivers in jeopardy.

Score: 630485.3 - https://www.un.org/development...g/news/2017/12/long-term-care/