The mission of WHO in the area of transplantation is to meet the requirement of the fifty-seventh World health Assembly resolution WHA57.18..

Objectives can be summarized as follows:

To work with Member states and to provide assistance at their request to ensure effective national oversight of allogeneic and xenogeneic transplantation activities. This would ensure accountability, traceability, and appropriate surveillance of adverse events (in particular transmission of infectious agents of xenogeneic origin);

To increase access of citizens to safe and effective transplantation of cell, tissue and organ. Additionally, to ensure ethical and technical practices of the procurement of human material for transplantation to the follow-up of recipients and live donors;

To promote international cooperation to encourage the global harmonization of technical and ethical practices in transplantation. This would include the prevention of the exploitation of the disadvantaged through transplant tourism and the sale of human material for transplantation.

To encourage donation of human material for transplantation.

The “Clinical Procedures” unit in the Department of Essential Health Technologies is responsible for promoting the appropriate effective and safe use of cell, tissue and organ transplantation. This includes the surveillance of risks particularly in xenotransplantation. This department is also responsible for ensuring efficacy, safety and equity in the provision of clinical procedures in surgery, anaesthetics, obstetrics and orthopaedics particularly at the district hospital level.

The National UN University Volunteer will be based at the WHO Regional Emergency Hub, a dynamic environment dedicated to enhancing emergency preparedness and response initiatives. In this role, the volunteer will support various activities aimed at strengthening training operations and improving learning methodologies in the African Region. Specifically, the volunteer will work within the training unit, which focuses on building capacity and enhancing the skills of health professionals across the region.

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of the EPR Training Officer and the EMP team lead or his/her designated mandated representative(s), the UN Volunteer will:
1.Assist in coordinating and implementing virtual and in-person asynchronous and synchronous learning and training activities.
2.Contribute to preparing training reports, ensuring all relevant data and insights are included, as well as the end-of-year training report.
3.Support the structuring/restructuring of training operations to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
4.Provide support to the team during periods of absence and missions, ensuring continuity of operations.
5.Perform any other duties as assigned by the first line manager and/or the EMP team lead in the hub.

Furthermore, UN Volunteers are required to:
•Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and take active part in UNV activities (for in-stance in events that mark International Volunteer Day).
•Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country.
•Reflect on the type and quality of voluntary action that they are undertaking, including participation in ongoing reflection activities.
•Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.
•Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly arrived UN Volunteers.
•Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering or encourage relevant local individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible.

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