development

President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda

African States need to move faster on development, Uganda tells UN debate

23 September 2009
The countries of sub-Saharan Africa have spent too long “wandering in the desert of under-development” and need to take faster steps towards building infrastructure and modernizing their economies, the President of Uganda told the opening of the General Assembly’s high-level debate today.

Spain and UN join forces to improve small island nations’ access to technology

5 August 2009
Small island developing States, among the world’s most vulnerable countries, have received a boost of nearly $3 million to give them better access to technology, thanks to a joint initiative by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) and Spain.
Environmental degradation: toxic effluent flows from this rubbish mountain in Sidon, Lebanon, directly into the sea

Arab development undermined by lack of human security, UN-backed report says

21 July 2009
A widespread lack of basic elements of human security, such as access to clean water, freedom from hunger, democracy and a robust rule of law, is denying citizens of Arab countries the ability to fulfil their potential, according to a United Nations-sponsored report released today.
Displaced Iraqi children sit in their makeshift shelter in an abandoned government building in Baghdad in 2008

UN population agency and Iraq partner to boost development

9 July 2009
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Iraqi Government have agreed to step up their collaboration in promoting national development in the strife-torn nation.

Coca Cola, Microsoft boost profits while promoting African, Asian development – UN

11 June 2009
Coca Cola and Microsoft are among dozens of companies which are adding to their bottom line while helping Africa and Asia meet their development targets as part of a United Nations-backed scheme.

Ban calls for new ways to finance development amid economic turmoil

19 May 2009
The global recession is eroding traditional forms of financing growth in the poorer nations, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned today, as he addressed a meeting in Geneva tasked with finding creative alternatives to funding development.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (centre) holds a cultural artifact during a visit at a micro credit programme in Bahrain

Ban to chair meeting on innovative financing solutions for development

18 May 2009
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will preside over a meeting tomorrow in Geneva to identify pioneering financing solutions for development, as people in developing countries have been made more vulnerable by the current economic crisis which has intensified disparities between wealthy and poor nations.
Panoramic view of hillside crop with women picking or tending to plantation in Cameroon

Cameroon: UN funds multi-million dollar scheme to boost rural employment

11 May 2009
The rural poor across Cameroon are set to receive a cash injection of close to $14 million from the United Nations in an effort to reduce poverty, increase income and improve livelihoods.

Financial crisis highlights need to achieve development goals, Migiro says

17 April 2009
The current financial turmoil that has swept the world provides an impetus to deliver on aid commitments and reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the eight internationally-agreed anti-poverty targets with a 2015 deadline, Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro has said.

UN funds $15 million agricultural scheme helping thousands of poor in El Salvador

9 April 2009
Extremely poor people living off the land in El Salvador are set to receive a major cash injection of almost $15 million from the United Nations rural development arm to help finance projects aimed at modernizing agricultural production.