It also encourages cooperation amongst governments and civil society in Asia and the Pacific Sub-Region.
Good knowledge of the Pacific sub-region and of the working methods of the UN system or other inter-governmental organizations would be an advantage.
UNESCO: Vacancy : Programme Specialist (Natural Sciences) (30/5/2011) (AS/RP/SAM/SC/0005 - (P3))
Plan, organize and provide technical backstopping to projects, workshops, publications and other activities and events of relevance to science and sustainable development in the sub-region.
UNESCO: Vacancy : Programme Specialist (Natural Sciences) (30/5/2011) (AS/RP/SAM/SC/0005 - (P3))
Scientific cooperation within the sub-region and with the rest of Europe has been promoted to prepare countries for integration into the European Research Area (ERA).
The events in the past ten to twelve years have shown that the proverbial "we are our neighbour's keeper" has become more relevant to the situation in our sub-region...
He said it was time to re-consider the effects of creating a "cross-border sub-region" of north-east Wales and north-west England which sets the framework in which councils and the Welsh Government operate.
Today, as we celebrate the dawn of lasting peace and security in Sierra Leone, we are also symbolically erecting a new milestone on the road to peace and stability in the West African sub-region.
In coordination with the other Programme Specialists in the Accra Office and other Natural Sciences Programme Specialists based in the sub-region identify, plan, support and implement inter-disciplinary and intersectoral projects in the field of Natural Sciences.
Ethiopia seizes this opportunity to underscore that there is no other sound alternative to good neighbourliness and peaceful co-existence and calls upon all neighbouring countries to stand united in promoting peace and development in our sub-region.
It will organize and host international conferences and training programmes aimed at advancing biotechnology education for the sub-region, in collaboration with other universities and research institutes working in the area of biotechnology in Nigeria, other parts of Africa and beyond.
The results of this study contributed to a collective reflection on how media coverage in the sub-region is not reaching adequate journalism standards and is rather functioning as a polarising instrument that does not benefit the citizens of these countries.
The Sub-Saharan region faces several challenges, including poor understanding of groundwater regimes and poor and inadequate data and information.
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In her opening address, Ms Bokova stressed the importance to act where needs were most acute, pointing to Africa where over 300 of the 800 million people in the Sub-Saharan region live in a water-scarce environment.
The first of those, he urged, is free and open trade with the continent -- an issue that was knocked around the House and Senate last year with the consideration of a bill that would extend free-trade provisions, under certain circumstances, to nations in the continent's sub-Saharan region.
Muhyiddin, who invited Unesco secretary-general Irina Bokova to Kuala Lumpur to sign an MoU to endorse the co-operation during the launch of the first programme under the initiative in June, said some countries had great achievements in universal primary education while others, especially from the sub-Sahara region, were far from the target.
The 1, 700km Winnipeg-Churchill line heads north from the Manitoba capital, easing through lake-studded woodland tundra towards the remote, sub-arctic northern region.
The worst hit region is sub-Saharan Africa, where nearly four million children have lost one or both parents to Aids since 2000.
Precisely because the gaze of international security has neglected sub-Saharan Africa, the region presents itself as rather inviting to Islamists hoping to operate in obscurity.
These lessons should be learned and applied moving forward not only to Turkey, but to a whole host of regimes and sub-national groups in the region and throughout the world.
Even if you exclude that region, the sub-Saharan part includes areas of relatively low fertility such as southern Africa, where families of three prevail.
Sub-Saharan Africa is the only region in which the gender disparities against girls are getting worse at the upper secondary level, with 8 million boys enrolled compared to only 6 million girls, according to the Digest.
It is estimated, for instance, that some 2.5 million new engineers and technicians will be needed in sub-Saharan Africa alone if the region is to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goal of improved access to clean water and sanitation.
Ulster Bank has said it will close "in the region" of 20 branches and sub-offices on the island of Ireland this year.
For decades, the United States has regarded its security interests in Sub-Saharan Africa as insignificant, instead treating the region as little more than a dumping ground for humanitarian assistance.
The region was hit by snow and temperatures remained sub-zero in Church Lawford for most of Friday.
It focuses on sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia and the Andean region.
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"Sub-Saharan Africa 's population has grown faster than any region over the past 30 years, despite the millions of deaths from the Aids pandemic, " the UN Population Fund says.
The two sub-species of white rhino (Ceratotherium simum) have a population in the region of 20, 000 in South Africa alone.
World Bank president James Wolfensohn and IMF managing director Horst Koehler are in sub-Saharan Africa until 25 February, in a demonstration of support for the region.
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