Educational Value of MUN simulations
Model UN helps students to develop public speaking, writing and research skills. In addition, they often provide the first entry point into international affairs and introduce students to the wide range of peace and security, human rights, development and rule of law issues that are on the UN agenda.
What is often overlooked is the important role that MUN simulations can play in teaching students about the UN as an institution, its role in world affairs, and the art of diplomacy that underlies the unique way in which it makes decisions that affect our lives.
Understanding the challenges of youth unemployment and empowerment, the South African TVET colleges allows for technical and practical training, giving more advantage to students for employment after graduation.
Special mention to Mr Phuti Magwai of Vhembe TVET, Mr Thabo Moloto of Waterberg TVET and Mrs Mary Ramonyatse of Capricorn TVET for the support of youth empowerment programme for the students of Limpopo.
This year our model UN is taking place online. Find the registration form below.
Limpopo Province Model United Nation Conference 2021
Councils and Committees for the Limpopo Model UN
The UN Economic and Social Council
COORDINATION WITHIN THE UN
ECOSOC links a diverse family of UN entities dedicated to sustainable development, providing overall guidance and coordination. The entities include regional economic and social commissions, functional commissions facilitating intergovernmental discussions of major global issues, and specialized agencies, programmes and funds at work around the world to translate development commitments into real changes in people’s lives. Reforms over the last decade, particularly General Assembly resolution 68/1, have strengthened ECOSOC’s leading role in identifying emerging challenges, promoting innovation, and achieving a balanced integration of the three pillars of sustainable development—economic, social and environmental. ECOSOC is charged with giving special attention to coordinated follow-up on major UN conferences and summits.GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS
Building on its coordination role within the UN system, ECOSOC is a gateway for UN partnership and participation by the rest of the world. It offers a unique global meeting point for productive dialogues among
policymakers, parliamentarians, academics, foundations, businesses, youth and 3,200+ registered non-governmental organizations.
The UN High Commission for Refugees
The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was created in 1950, during the aftermath of the Second World War, to help millions of Europeans who had fled or lost their homes. The commission had three years to complete our work and then disband.
Today, over 70 years later, the organization is still hard
at work, protecting and assisting refugees around the world.
The UN Environmental Assembly
UN ENVIRONMENT ASSEMBLY and GOVERNING COUNCIL
The United Nations Environment Assembly is the world’s highest-level decision-making body on the environment. It addresses the critical environmental challenges facing the world today. Understanding these challenges and preserving and rehabilitating our environment is at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The Environment Assembly meets biennially to set priorities for global environmental policies and develop international environmental law. Through its resolutions and calls to action, the Assembly provides leadership and catalyses intergovernmental action on the environment. Decision-making requires broad participation, which is why the Assembly provides an opportunity for all peoples to help design solutions for our planet’s health.
HISTORY OF THE UNEA
The United Nations Environment Assembly was created in June 2012, when world leaders called for UN Environment to be strengthened and upgraded during the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, also referred to as RIO+20. The Environment Assembly embodies a new era in which the environment is at the centre of the international community’s focus and is given the same level of prominence as issues such as peace, poverty, health and security. The establishment of the Environment Assembly was the culmination of decades of international efforts, initiated at the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972 and aimed at creating a coherent system of international environmental governance. Read more on the Assembly sessions