MIL-OSI United Nations: CDP and UNDP partner to support sustainable development goals | UNDP
Source: United Nations Development Programme 2 Cassa depositi e prestiti (CDP) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) signed a broad agreement to identify joint initiatives aimed at achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With UNDP’s extensive network in more than 170 countries, its presence and capacity at the country level, and its central role in […]
Read More →MIL-OSI United Nations: UNDP and partners launch new initiative for unmet health needs
Source: United Nations Development Programme Headline: UNDP and partners launch new initiative for unmet health needs Recognizing the urgency of developing new lifesaving treatments for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), malaria and tuberculosis and getting them to people in need, the Government of Japan, the UNDP-led Access and Delivery Partnership (ADP) and the Global Health Innovative […]
Read More →MIL-OSI United Nations: Italy Prime Minister Conte Opens Africa Centre for Climate and Sustainable Development in Rome
Source: United Nations Development Programme Headline: Italy Prime Minister Conte Opens Africa Centre for Climate and Sustainable Development in Rome This Centre will provide a fast-track, demand-driven mechanism for African countries to access grant resources that support policies, initiatives, and best practices on climate change, food security, access to water, clean energy, and accelerating progress […]
Read More →MIL-OSI United Nations: Stronger, coherent and gender responsive policies needed to reintegrate those returning from violent extremism
Source: United Nations Development Programme Headline: Stronger, coherent and gender responsive policies needed to reintegrate those returning from violent extremism There is an even wider chasm between on-the-ground realities and global policies, where the fate of women and children is concerned. Programming must help them earn livelihoods, which can prevent them from being pressured into […]
Read More →MIL-OSI United Nations: UNDP and partners launch new initiative for unmet health needs | UNDP
Source: United Nations Development Programme 2 Partners launch new initiative to unite efforts across innovation, access and delivery of technologies for unmet health needs BANGKOK, 30 January 2019 – Recognizing the urgency of developing new lifesaving treatments for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), malaria and tuberculosis and getting them to people in need, the Government of […]
Read More →MIL-OSI United Nations: Italy Prime Minister Conte Opens Africa Centre for Climate and Sustainable Development in Rome | UNDP
Source: United Nations Development Programme 2 Rome, Jan 28 – Italy’s Prime Minister Giuiseppe Conte cut the ribbon for the new ‘Africa Centre for Climate and Sustainable Development’ in Rome today. This Centre will provide a fast-track, demand-driven mechanism for African countries to access grant resources that support policies, initiatives, and best practices on climate change, food security, […]
Read More →MIL-OSI United Nations: UN Development Chief to Security Council: Climate change ‘aggravates fragile situations, feeds insecurity and conflict’ | UNDP
Source: United Nations Development Programme 2 – Says despite immense challenges, ‘we can do what needs to be done’ New York City, 25 January – The UN Development Programme (UNDP) is witnessing firsthand the ways that climate change drives insecurity and conflict around the world, but we have the data and the means to do […]
Read More →MIL-OSI United Nations: Remarks to the Security Council | UNDP
Source: United Nations Development Programme 2 As prepared for delivery. Mr. President, Excellencies, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you to the Government of the Dominican Republic for drawing attention to the impact of climate-related disasters on international peace and security with this Ministerial debate. Taken alone, climate-related disasters, conflict and insecurity each threaten human […]
Read More →MIL-OSI United Nations: Statement to the Executive Board Poverty Evaluation Session | UNDP
Source: United Nations Development Programme 2 Mr. President, Dear Distinguished Delegates, Poverty continues to be the greatest global challenge of our time. The World Bank estimates that over 700 million people lived below the international poverty line ($1.90 per day) in 2015, with about 800 million people close to this threshold.[1] When considering overlapping and […]
Read More →MIL-OSI United Nations: Poverty ‘at centre of everything we do’ | UNDP
Source: United Nations Development Programme 2 UN Development Programme highlights ‘next generation’ approach that leaves no one behind New York City, 21 January 2019 – The UN Development Programme’s (UNDP) Executive Board heard today that the Organization was disrupting and pushing boundaries in the way it thinks, delivers, invests and manages – changes that allow […]
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