By John Lee. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in partnership with the Governments of Sweden and Italy and in ...

U.N. Peacekeeping has a legacy of success, from Namibia to today's volatile hotspots. But to remain effective, it needs ...

South Africa holds the G-20 presidency, whose membership is set to include the African Union (AU). Together with other ...

Political party bans by military authorities in Burkina Faso and Niger have met little resistance, but in Mali they ignited defiance.On 13 May, Mali's military transitional authority decreed the ...

Students from Uganda’s Kinoni Integrated Secondary School pose in front of their compost toilet project. Participants from India’s Vidyamandir Trust lead an adult literacy session as part of the “We ...

The UN Interagency Task Force on Religion and Sustainable Development (UN IATF-R) was established in 2010, at the behest of eight UN principals, as a platform for knowledge exchange and management, ...

The annual Human Development Index (HDI) report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said that despite the rebound seen after the COVID-19 pandemic by 2023, the recovery is now ...

Co-hosted by the World Bank's Poverty Global Department and the Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), this one-day event explores how ...

The United Nations Development Programme is hoping to deliver $1.3 billion over three years to support war-ravaged Syria, including by rebuilding infrastructure and backing digital start-ups ...

It was organised jointly by the AU, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa(UNECA), the United Nations Development Programme(UNDP), AUDA-NEPAD, and the UN Development Coordination Office ...

Russia is contributing $14 million to new United Nations Development Program projects addressing climate-related problems, including in the Aral Sea basin. The agreement with the UN and Russia on the ...

The International Comparison Program (ICP) began in the late 1960s as a small collaboration between the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD ... and tracking progress toward the UN Sustainable ...