UNDP

FAO/Elisabeth Tsehlo

FROM THE FIELD: Adapting to Lesotho’s changing climate

18 June 2020
Climate Change

Living in the African mountain kingdom of Lesotho comes with its fair share of challenges, including land degradation and climate change, which are upending traditional farming practices. 

UNDP Guatemala/Caroline Trutmann

FROM THE FIELD: The UN’s mission to transform agriculture, for people and planet

9 June 2020
Economic Development

How can agriculture become better able to resist major international shocks such as climate change, and health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic?

Unsplash/Ryan 'O' Niel

FROM THE FIELD: Nature ‘strongest ally’ to building sustainable planet

21 May 2020
Climate Change

Nature is humankind’s ‘strongest ally’ to help build a sustainable planet, according to a Malaysian biodiversity expert, whose organization is supported by the UN Development Programme, (UNDP).

UN Photo/Kibae Park

Senior UN official calls for universal basic income to tackle growing inequality

6 May 2020
Economic Development

The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a health crisis, but it is also proving to be an economic disaster for huge numbers of people worldwide. A senior UN official with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) is calling for countries to provide citizens with a universal basic income, to help the millions who have lost their jobs, because of measures to curb the virus, combined with increasing levels of inequality.

Manahas Farquhar Matthew Morgan

FROM THE FIELD: ‘Green practices’ boost blue economy

21 April 2020
Economic Development

The introduction of “green” or sustainable practices supported by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) is helping the “blue economy” of an Indian Ocean archipelago to thrive.

UNDP China

FROM THE FIELD: Surviving a coronavirus scare in China

18 March 2020
Health

A young woman who works as an intern for the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in China has been talking about the anxiety she faced after being hospitalized for several days with a suspected case of coronavirus or COVID-19.

UNDP

UN development agency provides lifeline to Gaza lifeguards, in bid to keep workers from debtors’ prison

6 August 2018
Economic Development

If Bilal Bashir, a Palestinian fisherman and lifeguard living on the coast of the Gaza Strip, does not get work over the summer months, he risks being sent to debtors’ prison.

UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras/Eskinder Debebe

Ban appoints senior officials to key development posts

7 May 2014
United Nations’ development efforts got a boost today with the appointment of key positions in the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and at the UN Development Programme (UNDP).
UNDP/Marcos Nagelstein

UN soccer event scores $360,000 for youth in Brazil and Cape Verde

11 February 2013
The recent United Nations all-star charity soccer match in Porto Alegre, Brazil raised $360,000 for youth-oriented projects in Brazil and Cape Verde, the world organization’s development agency has announced.
UNDP/A. Chetvergov

UN report highlights importance of ocean-friendly investments

14 December 2012
Concrete action to reverse or mitigate environmental damage done to the world’s oceans must be initiated immediately before it is too late, a United Nations ocean expert has warned.