Room for improvement
The United Nations Development Programme's office in Barbados is being run in a "satisfactory" manner, an audit of its operations has found. Related posts: BWA AUDIT Accolades for Deloitte No improvement in business expectedRead more...
African Unity at 50: Renaissance and the rising south - Helen Clark
As the African Union celebrates its 50th anniversary, UNDP's administrator and former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark argues that tackling inequalities on the continent is central to lifting human development.Read more...
Petty Corruption on the Rise
“That citizens have to spend unofficial expenses to bribe officials to seek employment, complete land procedures, schooling procedures, health checks and disease treatments is rampant nationwide. Now, the citizens are very...Read more...
Political Participation by Indigenous Latin Americans Low
Thursday, 23 May 2013, 10:31 am Press Release: UN News Political Participation by Indigenous Peoples in Latin America Still Low - UN ReportNew York, May 22 2013 - Indigenous peoples in Latin America have undergone an...Read more...
Helen Clark ranked 21st most powerful woman
Helen Clark has been ranked as the 21st most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine.The head of the UN's development programme is the only New Zealander in the list of 100 women - and moves up from number 50 two years...Read more...
2013 flood alert: Bitter rains here again
•Govt agencies vow not to be caught napping this time By ISAAC ANUMIHE and KEMI YESUFU Floods hit the entire nation at very bad and painful points last rainy season. It hardly spared any state, and the widespread effect was...Read more...
Zimbabwe Global Fund Project in Zimbabwe Uses Technology to Improve Data Collection
A project being implemented under a Global Fund grant will improve Zimbabwe's health information systems by providing Internet connection infrastructure for 82 urban and rural sites. The Zimbabwe project is just one of many...Read more...
Update 1-New ZealandAustralia Morning Call-Global markets
Reuters - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013 While you were sleeping Fed opens door to QE easing National Business Review - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013 US stocks and bonds fell, both giving up earlier gains, after Federal Reserve chief Ben...Read more...
Vietnam observes International Day for Biological Diversity
Nhan Dan Online – The Vietnam Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme have organised a week of activities from May 20 to 25 to celebrate the International Day...Read more...
Helen Clark ranked 21st most powerful woman
Helen Clark has been ranked as the 21st most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine. The head of the UN's development programme is the only New Zealander in the list of 100 women - and moves up from number 50 two years...Read more...
Vietnam observes International Day for Biological Diversity
Nhan Dan Online – The Vietnam Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme have organised a week of activities from May 20 to 25 to celebrate the International Day...Read more...
Haiti - Economy : Results of the workshop on support for local production
As part of the support program to the Haitian local production of the United Nations Development Programme, the Ministry of Trade and Industry and UNDP, have rendered the results of consultations with local stakeholders...Read more...
Cambodia launches cassava development project under China, UNDP support
Cambodia launched Tuesday the second phase of cassava development project under the support of China and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). … Cambodia and China signed a Protocol on the Exports of Cambodian Cassava...Read more...
Sudan Launches its First National Strategy for the Development of Statistics
Press Release Khartoum, 23 April, 2013 - Under the auspices of the Vice President of the Republic, the Central Bureau of Statistics launched today the National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDS) for the Republic...Read more...
Tomorrow the report on Loma Miranda will be released
SANTO DOMINGO. The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) finished the evaluation of the environmental impact study submitted by the Falcondo nickel mining company as part of their efforts to receive the environmental...Read more...
Green Fale In Tuvalu to Showcase Benefits of Saving Energy
A new renewable energy project in Tuvalu takes the saying “Home is where the heart is” one green step further. Tuvalu will be building a renewable energy fale that will feature energy efficient appliances to demonstrate the...Read more...
MINISTER LAUDS ECOWAS VOLUNTEERS PROGRAMME
MINISTER LAUDS ECOWAS VOLUNTEERS PROGRAMME ABUJA, Nigeria, May 22, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ – Guinea’s Minister of International Cooperation, Prof. Koutoub Sano on Monday 21st May 2013, commended the burgeoning...Read more...
Electricity demand surpasses Malawi Govt projections–UN
Increased prospects in the mining sector has brought a skyrocketing demand for electricity in Malawi leading to the almost doubling of power projections up to 2020, a United Nations (UN) report has said. The Malawi government...Read more...
Saudi Fund for Development support community infrastructure rehabilitation in crisis affected...
Islamabad, May 18, 2013 (PPI-OT): The Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has extended additional financial support to UNDP in Pakistan for US$ 1.3 million bringing its total contribution to US$ 6.7...Read more...
Africa Creating Business Key to Africas Sustainable Development
Creating business and market opportunities for Africa's poor is key to advancing sustainable development in the region, according to a new United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report According to African Review, the...Read more...
Africa Creating Business Key to Africas Sustainable Development
Creating business and market opportunities for Africa's poor is key to advancing sustainable development in the region, according to a new United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report According to African Review, the...Read more...
First SIDS DOCK Pacific Meeting Reviews Progress
The first SIDS DOCK Pacific Regional Meeting reviewed the current work of the first phase of the SIDS DOCK Support Programme and discussed its next phase. SIDS DOCK is an initiative developed by small island developing States...Read more...
Sudan Call for More Wells to Ease Water Shortage in Yaseen East Darfur
Yaseen - The population of Yaseen locality in East Darfur state is suffering from a water shortage following the disruption of the area's water stations. Resident Edam Abdullah Saleh told Radio Dabanga yesterday that the water...Read more...
Somalia Top Army Commander - We Have Successfully Removed Some Road Blocks
Mogadishu - (sh.M.Network) General Abdullahi Osman Agey the second in command of the army forces who addressed Shabelle media in Mogadishu said that they have successfully removed the road blocks in the lower Shabaelle region....Read more...
Uganda: Uganda Fails to Hit Maternal Health Target
New Vision]WITH barely two years left to the deadline for the realisation of the Millennium Development Goals (MGDs), Uganda is still short of meeting the target of reducing the maternal mortality rate.Read more...
Nigeria: Child Mortality - Any Hope for the Nigerian Child?
Daily Trust]The Nigerian Federal Government some weeks ago celebrated a thousand days to the MDGs target. 2015 is the projected date for the MDGs in most countries to achieve all the target of the development goals. But the...Read more...
Ekiti: Fast-tracking growth through executive-legislative pact
For four days, the executive and legislature in Ekiti State held a parley to fast track development in the Fountain of Knowledge. WOLE OLUJOBI, the Special Adviser on Media to the Speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly,...Read more...
Ban pledges UN commitment to stable, prosperous Mali in message to Brussels meeting
UN News Service, Ban pledges UN commitment to stable, prosperous Mali in message to Brussels meeting, 15 May 2013, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/519b2c4b4.html [accessed 21 May 2013] This is not a UNHCR...Read more...
Africa Statement On UNDP Internal Evaluation of Its Strategic Plan
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) conducts regular, comprehensive evaluations of its activities as a cornerstone of its continuous process of learning and performance management. As an organization with global...Read more...
Scholarships and funding opportunities at Manchester University in United Kingdom Britain
Funding Opportunities for Studies in International Development at the Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM) Equity and Merit Scholarships for Study by Distance Learning (Jan 2014 start) – Applicants from...Read more...
