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In 2011 Baadam Bai says, she won her biggest battle yet. While her community had been allocated 32 acres of land to cultivate after they had quit manual scavenging, they faced many problems. “The upper caste villagers would release their cattle to trample our crop, trying to destroy our hard work so we would break and return to our traditional roles “, she says. Teaming up with fellow women champions and other volunteers, she lodged a complaint with the police and the intimidation stopped.[Photo: Ishan Tankha/UNDP India, Jan Sahas]
Forty year old Tasleem Bi is a Dalit Muslim from Dewas district of Madhya Pradesh. As a young child, she worked as a manual scavenger protecting her parents’ jagir or the right to collect waste from a certain number of houses in the village. It was a “right” zealously guarded by her community since they had no other way to earn a living. When she got married, she spent INR 20,000 to buy the “right” to clean 50 homes in her village from her brother and her nephew. [Photo: Ishan Tankha/UNDP India, Jan Sahas]
Since 2013, the United Nations has been supporting these women champions in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, to address the challenges faced by their community.
[Photo: Ishan Tankha/UNDP India, Jan Sahas]
It was only in 2005 when she met civil society activists that she realized that the culture of discrimination in her village against her caste was tied up with their jobs and only means of survival.” Once I realized I was actually a slave I couldn't do the work any more”, she says. The following year she stood for elections from her ward and despite being offered a bribe of land or INR 2,00,000 in cash, fought the elections and won by a huge margin. She has managed to get all but four families in her village from the haila community government sponsored housing. Ironically, she is one of the four still waiting.[Photo: Ishan Tankha/UNDP India, Jan Sahas]
4 June 2020 – UNDP Executive Board session. H.E. Mr. Walton Webson
President of the UNDP Executive Board, and
Permanent Representative of Antigua and Barbuda to the United Nations
Group of Latin American and Caribbean States. Screenshot: UNDP
NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 05: Actress and UNDP Goodwill Ambassador Connie Britton and Executive Producer, author, and host Padma Lakshmi attend the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Inaugural Global Goals Gala: A Night for Change at Phillips in Manhattan on December 5, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images for United Nations Development Programme (UNDP))
Visiting the hospital in Chechersk, which provides treatment to children in the form of interactive games and psychotherapeutic sessions.
Read more about Maria Sharapova’s youth projects in Chernobyl affected areas
Nighat, the manager of a female CO is found busy here recording the details of the meeting on to the register. She says the trainings on record keeping have helped her not only to play an effective role in the CO but also in her daily life. The proceedings of each meeting are recorded and attendance of all the members is duly noted.
Credit: Jamil Akhtar/UNDP Pakistan. 2020
Under the ‘CCAM-II’ project, funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, Government of Italy, and Global Water Challenge (CocaCola Foundation), an 18,000-foot pipeline is providing freshwater to residents of Tassu village in Gol, Skardu.
Credit: Jamil Akhtar/UNDP Pakistan
Objective was to inform, present, and engage government, policymakers, and other stakeholders on the UNDP’s proposed Outcomes and Outputs of CPD 2023-2027.
Promoting sport and a healthy active lifestyle is part of the approach to some of the youth projects to benefit those growing up in Chernobyl affected areas - in Belarus, Ukraine and the Russian Federation - funded by the Maria Sharapova Foundation, together with UNDP.
Read more about Maria Sharapova’s youth projects in Chernobyl affected areas
Village, Dagbasood - Tailoring Training for females conducted by WCO “Jugnu Khawateen” under RAHA.
Shakeela and Salma set up their own workshop after the training. Salma, “We feel so useful now that we can actually contribute financially supporting the men of the family”.
Promoting sport and a healthy active lifestyle is part of the approach to some of the youth projects to benefit those growing up in Chernobyl affected areas - in Belarus, Ukraine and the Russian Federation - funded by the Maria Sharapova Foundation, together with UNDP.
Read more about Maria Sharapova’s youth projects in Chernobyl affected areas
Photo: UNDP Bangladesh/Sarah Apu
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2022, UN Women, UNDP, and UNCDF jointly organized an event in Dhaka with several financial institutions in Bangladesh to highlight the importance of better and easier access to finance for women. The event was an initiative of the “WING: Women’s Empowerment for Inclusive Growth” project, funded by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Bangladesh.
Photo: UNDP Bangladesh/Sarah Apu
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2022, UN Women, UNDP, and UNCDF jointly organized an event in Dhaka with several financial institutions in Bangladesh to highlight the importance of better and easier access to finance for women. The event was an initiative of the “WING: Women’s Empowerment for Inclusive Growth” project, funded by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Bangladesh.
Tennis star Sharapova visits UNDP youth projects in Belarus
Gomel, Belarus 30 June - Tennis champion Maria Sharapova arrived here today to visit children living in areas affected by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster and to see for herself the work of a number of UNDP youth-focused projects that her Foundation has helped fund.
As soon as she landed, Sharapova went to the town of Chechersk and visited the hospital’s “Fairy Tale Room” which provides treatment to the children in the form of interactive games and psychotherapeutic sessions. She then visited UNDP’s “Ecology of the Soul” project at the Local Arts Centre and spoke to children involved in raising awareness on environmental issues. The project, funded by the Maria Sharapova Foundation, works with youth to spruce up public spaces, clean springs, make bird feeders and plant bushes. Needless to say, she was a big hit with the children, all of whom wanted to pose next to her and have their photos taken.
“I am so glad to be able to see these inspiring children and the wonderful projects that my Foundation and UNDP have been supporting for the past two years“, said the tennis star. “They are definitely a good example of how local communities can overcome the ‘victim syndrome’, take greater control over their lives and build productive futures for themselves.”
Tomorrow, Sharapova will visit the Gomel Oblast Tennis Centre and will meet with the 2010 winners of a five-year Maria Sharapova Foundation Scholarship for Youth from the Chernobyl-Affected Areas of Belarus. The scholarship aims to assist talented students gain access to high-quality education in the leading universities of the country. The scholarship program was launched in September 2008 as a joint initiative between the Maria Sharapova Foundation and UNDP, where Sharapova serves as a Goodwill Ambassador.
In partnership with UNDP, the Sharapova Foundation supports seven youth-oriented projects in areas of Belarus, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine affected by the Chernobyl accident.
Sharapova was born in 1987 in Nyagan, Siberia, after her family fled Gomel in the wake of the Chernobyl accident. After two years in Nyagan, the family moved to the Black Sea town of Sochi, Russia. In 1995 Sharapova left Russia to study tennis in the United States. In 2004 she won her first Grand Slam title at Wimbledon and was named Women’s Tennis Association player of the year. In 2006 she won the U.S. Open and, in 2008, the Australian Open.
The first session of the 37-member Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) was opened by Secretary-General U Thant on the 10th of January 1966.
Credit: UN Photo/Yutaka Nagata, 1966
Village, Dagbasood - Tailoring Training for females conducted by WCO “Jugnu Khawateen” under RAHA.
Shakeela and Salma set up their own workshop after the training. Salma, “We feel so useful now that we can actually contribute financially supporting the men of the family”.