Kerry McGovern has contributed to the United Nations Asset Management Manual. It is yet to be published but, once completed, will be available on the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs website. In 2020, she was named as the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Champion for Prosperity by the United Nations Association of Australia – …
Dr Jane Stanley also worked with the Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF) on an European Union (EU) funded program for training local government in Small Island Developing States. In 2019 we delivered training in person within Kiribati and the Cook Islands. The third target country was the Marshall Islands, but the COVID-19 emergency made a …
Dr Penny Burns hosted the Talking Infrastructure Workshop, in Adelaide in February 2020 on ‘Modern Monetary Theory and its relevance for Infrastructure Decision Making’. She contributed to the “Reshaping Infrastructure” issues Paper May 2020 by Climate Works Australia and to the United Nations Manual on Local Government Asset Management in August 2020. She gave a …
Kieren McGovern has been coordinating a UNDP-ADB Asia Pacific project that formulates Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) national implementation snapshots for country programming. See the Indonesia Snapshot, https://sdgsnapshot.org/indonesia Once COVID hit he worked on the UN response grants and the Asia Pacific UNDP led socio-economic impact assessments that now number 22. To end the year he …
2020 has been a big year. In this series of posts, we share some of our achievements in 2020. Dr Jane Stanley provided training in how to conduct questionnaire based surveys in PNG, and then converted this to a training manual when back in Australia. She oversaw and analysed several baseline surveys (for the Settlement …
Dr Jane Stanley is a speaker at this morning’s webinar hosted by the Pacific Partnerships – New Urban Agenda. You can join using this link. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84836602923 Jane is sharing her experience on the role of Local and National Government for the informal Sector in the Pacific.
With the Honduras, 50 countries have now ratified the UN Global Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty and there was much celebration. There are 84 signatories, so 34 are still to ratify. None of the 84 have nuclear weapons. Meanwhile countries that do, like the USA, Russia, the UK, France and China, India, Pakistan and North Korea …
Nuclear Disarmament, a case for inverted thinking? – Dr Penny Burns Read More »
The 50th nation ratified the TPNW and, in doing so, a future without nuclear weapons came slightly into view. Watching the video in the ICAN Australia tweet, I was even more excited to find K McGovern & Associates’ Dr Penny Burns on the video. Here she is at 1.00. It’s not only the work we …
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) Read More »
The future is not the past. While many tools and people from the pre-COVID-19 days will engage in the post COVID-19 reconstruction, we all need to be conscious that we are building a new world. Some thoughts as we ponder: Do we reinstate environmentally damaging practices? For what purpose? Is there a thoughtful and agreed …
Lani Morris has addressed the Meaning Conference in Brighton, UK 0n 14 November 2018 on the Map of Meaning.
