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The UN Development Group (UNDG) Toolkit was created for improved functioning of the UN development system at the country level. It provides a comprehensive structure to support countries in planning and implementing the change effort required to improve development impact and increase efficiency of the UN development system. It is a repository of the guidance, lessons learned and tools deriving from the experiences of the eight "Delivering as One" pilot countries, and from the experiences of UN Country Teams (UNCTs) that have pursued efforts to become more coherent.

In July 2010, the UN General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women

United Nations Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination (UN-CMCoord) is necessary to promote humanitarian principles, and protect humanitarian operating space, in humanitarian response operations where both humanitarian/civilian and military actors are present.

A statistical site of UN Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN with large time series and cross sectional data relating to hunger, food and agrculture for 245 countries and territories and 35 regional areas, from 1961 to the most recent year

The UN Development Group (UNDG) unites the 32 UN funds, programmes, agencies, departments, and offices that play a role in development. The group's common objective is to deliver more coherent, effective and efficient support to countries seeking to attain internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals

is the first collection of core humanitarian instruments developed by the UN and the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) on civil-military relationship in complex emergencies

Womenwatch is the central gateway to information and resources on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women throughout the United Nations system, including the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), the United Nations Secretariat, regional commissions, funds, programmes, specialized agencies, and academic and research institutions

This training course is in response to the report, Greening the Blue Helmets: Environment, Natural Resources and UN Peacekeeping Operations, released by UNEP. The report analyses how peacekeeping missions around the world affect, and are affected by natural resources and the broader environment, and notes that through the adoption of a 2009 Environmental Policy, UN Peacekeeping has a robust platform for progress in reducing its environmental impact

ALNAP and UN-Habitat have just launched an Urban Humanitarian Response Portal - a knowledge sharing platform, with a focus on disaster preparedness, relief and early recovery in urban humanitarian crises

The IASC is the primary mechanism for inter-agency coordination of humanitarian assistance. It is a unique forum involving the key UN and non-UN humanitarian partners.

The GHP was created as an outcome of the 12-13 July 2006 Dialogue Between UN and Non-UN Humanitarian Organisations. A Steering Committee was appointed to oversee the work of the Platform, which is to be "flexible, ad hoc, time-bound and action-oriented

The online UN library, catelogue, topic resources, collections, research toolss, databases

UN-SPIDER aims at providing universal access to all types of space-based information and services relevant to disaster management by being a gateway to space information for disaster management support; serving as a bridge to connect the disaster management and space communities; and being a facilitator of capacity-building and institutional strengthening

UNISDR is the secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. It was created in December 1999 and is part of the UN Secretariat with the purpose of ensuring the implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

The network of 63 United Nations Information Centres - Connecting the UN with the people it serves

The UN Programme on GGIM aims at playing a leading role in setting the agenda for the development of global geospatial information and to promote its use to address key global challenges. It provides a forum to liaise and coordinate among Member States, and between Member States and international organizations

A gateway to the UN System;'s Work on the MDGs

UN publications , eBooks and Apps

This the coordination webportal from UN OCHA for all Humanitarian Response, inclusive cross cutting issues ( gender, environmental) , , age), funding, access to crisispages, access to global cluster approach and resources ( like common GIS datasets)

THis is the replacement for the former OneRespons webportal

The Humanitarian Kiosk (HKiosk) application provides a range of up-to-the-minute humanitarian related information from emergencies around the world. The application has multiple independant kiosks which reflect locations where UN-OCHA operates or there is an ongoing international humanitarian emergency

Curently only for iPad, Android will follow somewhere in 2013