Frederico Pedroso is a civil engineer specialized in providing technical advisory and operational support for DRM activities ranging from disaster risk identification and mitigation to disaster preparedness, resilient infrastructure designs and urban resilience. Prior to joining the World Bank, Fred worked as a Transportation Engineer in Brazil and as assistant professor at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Over the past 9 years at the World Bank, he has been engaged in project preparation / implementation and Technical Assistance in Brazil, Belize, Bolivia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Jamaica, Cabo Verde and Samoa. With significant experience in promoting innovative engineering designs and disaster risk assessments to increase systems resilience, Fred has special interest in the overlap between natural hazards and climate risks in the infrastructure spectrum. Fred holds a Masters in Transportation (University of Brasilia), a PhD in Civil Engineering (Transport and DRM Focused) from the University of Canterbury and a Post-doctorate in Urban Logistics and Humanitarian Logistics from Kyoto University.
Erika Vargas is a Senior Operations Officer focusing on the design and implementation of the information and knowledge strategy for GFDRR. She also leads and coordinates the global knowledge agenda on resilience and disaster risk management in close collaboration with the Disaster Risk Management Global Lead. Recently, and as part of a partnership between NASA and Columbia University, Erika worked with the Chief Knowledge Officer of NASA on the conceptual and operational development of the critical knowledge notion in organizations. Before joining the World Bank in 2008, she worked as a researcher on peace and conflict resolution, and crime and violence prevention at the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University. Prior to this position, she worked as a Diplomat at the Colombian Embassy in Washington DC. She has earned a Master's of Science (MSc) in Information and Knowledge Strategy from Columbia University and a Master's of Arts (MA) in Sociology and Media Studies from The New School for Social Research.
Rossella Della Monica, Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist, is part of the Brussels GFDRR team, and works on the implementation of programs financed by the European Union. She is the Task Team Leader for the ACP-EU Disaster Risk Management Program, the Caribbean Regional Resilience Building Facility and the TA Program for Disaster Risk Financing in Caribbean OCTs; she also works on further developing strategic partnerships with the European Union on disaster risk management. Prior to this position, Rossella worked in Washington in the World Bank Latin America and Caribbean Disaster Risk Management team. Before joining the World Bank, Rossella worked as Program Manager at a Brussels-based consultancy, and for several NGOs as project officer. Rossella, an Italian national, holds a MA in Risk and Crisis Management from the University Pantheon Sorbonne in Paris, an MA in Humanitarian Assistance from the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, and a degree in physical geography from Pantheon-Sorbonne.
Yasuhiro Kawasoe (Hiro) joins GFDRR Tokyo hub as a Disaster Risk Management Specialist. A Japanese national, Hiro joined the Bank in 2017 as a Junior Professional Officer in the Social Protection and Jobs (SPJ) Global Practice. Since then, he worked for the global and regional units, most recently as a Social Protection Specialist in the East Asia and Pacific Region, covering both operational and analytical works. His focus in the Bank has been on a linkage between human development sectors and climate change adaptation and disaster risk management (such as adaptive social protection, socio-economic vulnerability). Prior to joining the Bank, he worked as a JICA consultant with experiences in disaster risk assessment, risk-informed urban planning, and post-disaster recovery and reconstruction. He is a First class registered Architect (Japan) and holds a M.Eng in Architecture from Waseda University in Japan. Hiro was competitively selected and will formally start on January 1, 2023.
Only one abstinence-only program has ever been proven effective at helping young people delay sex; yet in withholding information about contraception, it leaves those who do have sex completely at risk. Studies show that 99 percent of people will use contraception in their lifetimes,[20] and that the provision of information about contraception does not hasten the onset of sexual debut or increase sexual activity.[10] Meanwhile, thirty years of public health research clearly demonstrate that comprehensive sex education can help young people delay sexual initiation while also assisting them to use protection when they do become sexually active. We want young people to behave responsibly when it comes to decisions about sexual health, and that means society has the responsibility to provide them with honest, age-appropriate comprehensive sexual health education; access to services to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections; and the resources to help them lead healthy lives.
All young people need comprehensive sexual health education, while others also need sexual health services. Youth at disproportionate risk for sexual health disparities may also need targeted interventions designed specifically to build self efficacy and agency. Further, administrators and other policy makers must recognize that structural determinants, socio-cultural factors and cultural norms have been shown to have a strong impact on youth sexual health and must be tackled to truly redress sexual health disparity fueled by social inequity.
Founded in 1914, The Risk Management Association (RMA) is a not-for-profit, member-driven professional association whose sole purpose is to advance the use of sound risk principles in the financial services industry. RMA promotes an enterprise approach to risk management that focuses on credit risk, market risk, and operational risk.
The practical guidance in the operational handbook aims to inform the development or revision of national policies and related implementation guidance on the management of TB in children and adolescents under programmatic circumstances and at different levels of the health system. The operational handbook can also help countries adequately plan for the uptake of interventions to better address the specific needs of children and adolescents with or at risk of TB. It can contribute to national efforts to build capacity among national and subnational programme managers and among health workers at all levels of the health care system.
The intended audience for this operational handbook includes staff from national TB programmes and other health programmes who provide care for children and adolescents with or at risk of TB, including maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health programmes, HIV services, and primary health care programmes. The operational handbook also targets health care workers in the public and private sectors, school health services, civil society and community-based organizations, health care educators and technical and implementation partners.
In its initial form, industrial production was apprehended on a linear diagram modeled on the single flows of products ranging from the supply of raw materials to the manufacturing and then to the market. Today, the short product life cycle combined with uncertain demand makes flow management more complex while lengthening the supply chain. This requires that new constraints must be taken into account in the management system for information, product and financial flows. Some companies have initiated production to order program, others have made upstream and/or downstream integration, and some have relocated or even outsourced to benefit from economies of scale and expertise. All these strategies have not only brought added value to their initiators but also generated difficulties in their management. While the objective remains to adapt to a highly changing and demanding environment, the consequences of deployment of each strategy are potential source of risks. These risks related to the loss of control, flexibility, comply with the requirements of quality, costs and deadlines, either the distortion of information due to agents opportunism.
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