UNDP United Nations Development Programme [to 24 May 2014]
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21 May 2014
Donors pledge $600 million to bolster UN-led aid response to South Sudan crisis
As part of the humanitarian response, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has agreed to help mitigate the crisis by providing emergency employment to affected and displaced people, helping people move home and address the underlying causes of the conflict by helping communities to mediate and settle disputes peacefully.
21 May 2014
Helen Clark: Keynote Address at the High-level Event of the General Assembly on the “Contributions of North-South, South-South, Triangular Co-operation, and ICT for Development to the Implementation of the Post-2015 Agenda”
United Nations, New York
21 May 2014
Voting for their future – young people voice their priorities in the My World 2015 Survey
Some 50 young people recently gathered together in a Skopje café with United Nation’s Human Rights Advisor Silva Pesic, and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Youth Project Coordinator Dejan Dokuzovski, to learn more about the UN’s Universal Periodic Review and to offer their own input into the post-2015 agenda.
20 May 2014
UNDP: Flooding unearths landmine danger
Record flooding in the Balkans region in recent days could increase the risk of injuries and deaths from landmine accidents in Bosnia and Herzegovina, says the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and BH Mine Action Centre (BHMAC).
19 May 2014
UNDP highlights the importance of competition in increasing access to health technologies
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) released a new guidebook today encouraging low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to make greater use of competition law and policy to increase access to HIV treatment and other health technologies.
19 May 2014
Helen Clark: Statement at the Opening of the 18th session of the High-Level Committee on South-South Co-operation
United Nations, New York
19 May 2014
African countries need to tap global markets more effectively to strengthen their economies
By participating more effectively in the global production of goods and services, Africa can transform its economy and achieve a development breakthrough, according to the latest African Economic Outlook, released at the African Development Bank Group’s Annual Meetings.
19 May 2014
Key partnership delivering development results: India, Brazil, South Africa and the United Nations
The Ambassadors of India, Brazil and South Africa to the United Nations, the United Nations Secretary-General and the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) highlighted the achievements of their joint activities carried out through the India, Brazil and South Africa Facility for Poverty and Hunger Alleviation, known as the IBSA Fund.