Afghanistan’s Hunger And Poverty Crisis In Numbers
With Afghanistan fast becoming the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, U.N. agencies asked donors on Tuesday for $4.4 billion in humanitarian aid for 2022, the largest appeal ever sought for a single country. Millions of Afghans are at risk of famine as one of the country’s worst droughts in decades is compounded by an economic meltdown […]
UNDP Supports Training of Women On the Production of Ecostoves
The first batch of forty women Ambassadors for energy-efficient cookstoves is now prepared to help Liberia reach its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) 2030 target, after completing a two-month intensive training on the production of 400 pieces of Eco stoves. Liberia has a national target to produce 300,000 of energy-efficient stoves by 2030 as part of […]
UNDP, Vodafone Train Women in Agri-Business On Digital Banking
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in partnership with Vodafone Ghana, Access Bank and Youth Harvest Foundation, has empowered women engaging in agri-business in the Upper East Region on how to harness mobile technology for digital and financial inclusion. This is to enable them to adequately utilize mobile technology as a digital transformational tool to […]
Sudanese Women Ready To ‘Break Taboos’ And Run For Office
Since the 2019 Sudan protests, which ushered in a transitional government, and the promise of more rights, over a thousand women have felt emboldened to enter politics in a bid to enact lasting democratic change. Much has already changed for women since the protests: laws restricting freedom of dress, movement and work were repealed, and […]
Tech, Climate Change Creating New Inequalities, U.N. says
A new generation of global inequalities fueled by climate change and technology could trigger violence and political instability if left unchecked, the United Nations warned on Monday. Climate change and technology rather than wealth and income are the modern-day wedges that are increasingly dividing the haves from the have-nots, said the United Nations Development Programme […]
Vodafone, UNDP To Empower 1,500 Ghanaian Women
Vodafone Ghana Foundation has partnered the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to empower 1,500 women in the informal sector with digital and financial skills in the Upper East Region. The project, dubbed ‘Bringing the Informal to the Formal’, will directly train the women, mostly found in the Agric-processing sector, in savings, food security, business improvement; […]
UNDP Host Investment Forum To Commemorate Africa Climate Week 2019
The Government of Ghana (GoG) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are jointly hosting an investment forum as part of activities marking this year’s Africa Climate Week which takes place from March 18 to March 22. Stakeholders from international/ development organizations, government agencies―the Ministry of the Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation(MESTI), civil society organizations […]
Joint UN Statement on International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Statement by the Heads of UN agencies, UNDP, UNICEF, UN Women and UNFPA, calling for solidarity with survivors and survivor advocates and women’s human rights defenders who are working to prevent and end violence against women and girls. To commemorate this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the Secretary-General’s UNiTE Campaign is calling […]
Medica Liberia, UNDP Conduct Gender Mainstreaming Refresher Workshop
In a bid to advance women’s human rights by ensuring gender is mainstreamed into Liberia’s ongoing security sector reform, medica Liberia (mL) in partnership with the government of Liberia with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) completed a two-day Gender Mainstreaming Refresher Workshop for Gender Focal Points and Advisors of various Gender Units […]
Uniting For Malaria, Fighting, Winning And Sensitizing
In 1998, WHO, the World Bank, UNDP and UNICEF created the Roll Back Malaria Partnership (RBM) with the goal of cutting in half the global burden of malaria by 2010. This initiative mobilized unprecedented joint action, advocacy and funding from a coalition of partners from academia, research institutes, corporations and international development organizations. Dr Kesete Admasu […]
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