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The UN Resident Coordinator in Cape Verde, Ms Petra Lantz planting an endemic plant during the UN Day Ecologial walk
Photo Credit: UNDP Kenya
As part of its climate priorities, Kenya is focusing its efforts on the preservation, recovery and expansion of this precious environment and the biodiversity it holds. The work offers multiple benefits, from halting desertification to reducing greenhouse gases emissions, while at the same time strengthening the resilience of local communities that depend on forest ecosystems for their livelihoods.
Understanding these benefits, the Government of Kenya took leadership by committing in the country’s 2010 constitution to achieving 10 % tree cover across its land. In June 2022. As long-standing partners supporting the realization of Kenya’s climate and development objectives, UNDP and Japan came forward to contribute to this unprecedented effort. They joined forces with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and partners on the ground to strengthen restoration and protection activities in the Kaptagat Forest Ecosystem, the Kakamega Forest and the Lake Magadi Ecosystem.
Photo story: undp-climate.exposure.co/forests-hold-the-key-to-kenyas-c...
UNDP’s Goodwill Ambassador Crown Prince Haakon and H. E. Mr. Heikki Holmås visited several sites in the southern region of Haiti and in the capital Port-au-Prince. During their stay in the South, they visited riverbank management sites in Chantal where the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) helped build gabion walls that contributed to protect schools, communities, farmlands, harvests and critical infrastructure during Hurricane Sandy that hit Haiti last week.
Syrian female farmers carry picthforks as they walk amongst plants inside a UNDP-supported farmer's cooperative nursery in the village of Tal Abbas in Akkar, north of Lebanon.
11 February 2014
Photo: Dalia Khamissy/UNDP
Noor Jahan, 36 a very active member of the community organization ‘Sardar Nabi Bux’ in Panjpai is running her own embroidery business. Noor says, “I was trained by RAHA programme in 2011 and felt honoured when I was asked to conduct the next training in 2012. I had the urge to become an independent woman and in our culture/village it’s difficult for women to go out and work. I am very happy that I can work from home now generating enough income to feed my family ”.
Nezaposlenost, loš kvalitet javnih usluga, korupcija te nepovoljno poslovno okruženje samo su neki od brojnih izazova sa kojima se Bosna i Hercegovina suočava. Ipak, u posljednjih nekoliko godina, odgovorniji pristup jednog broja lokalnih vlasti doveo je do značajnog poboljšanja kvalitete života stanovništva.
Napredak je dobrim dijelom ostvaren kroz projekat Lokalni integrisani razvoj, inicijativu koju u vrijednosti od 12 miliona KM finansira Evropska unija a realizuje Razvojni program Ujedinjenih nacija (UNDP) u saradnji sa 21 lokalnom zajednicom. Rezultati su vidljivi kroz nova radna mjesta, efikasniji rad lokalne samouprave, te kvalitetniju komunalnu infrastrukturu.
Photo credit: Manuth Buth/UNDP Cambodia
In March 2020, over 330 students, women champions, government officials, NGO members and community members from around Kampot and Kep gathered in an effort to plant 3,000 mangroves and conserve Cambodia’s coastline. Shoes were abandoned on the sideline as people waded into the mud and shallows – the mission was much more important than worrying about dirty feet.
The local activity took place as part of a larger mangrove planting and marine exhibition under ActionAid Cambodia’s 100,000 Mangroves campaign, supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) under the project ‘Strengthening Climate Information and Early Warning Systems in Cambodia’. The campaign aims to plant 100,000 mangroves in eight community fisheries by May 2020 and raise awareness of the importance of marine ecosystems.
For more information, visit www.adaptation-undp.org/how-mangroves-mud-and-music-are-h...
Photo credit: Manuth Buth/UNDP Cambodia
In March 2020, over 330 students, women champions, government officials, NGO members and community members from around Kampot and Kep gathered in an effort to plant 3,000 mangroves and conserve Cambodia’s coastline. Shoes were abandoned on the sideline as people waded into the mud and shallows – the mission was much more important than worrying about dirty feet.
The local activity took place as part of a larger mangrove planting and marine exhibition under ActionAid Cambodia’s 100,000 Mangroves campaign, supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) under the project ‘Strengthening Climate Information and Early Warning Systems in Cambodia’. The campaign aims to plant 100,000 mangroves in eight community fisheries by May 2020 and raise awareness of the importance of marine ecosystems.
For more information, visit www.adaptation-undp.org/how-mangroves-mud-and-music-are-h...
UNDP’s Goodwill Ambassador Crown Prince Haakon and H. E. Mr. Heikki Holmås visited several sites in the southern region of Haiti and in the capital Port-au-Prince. During their stay in the South, they visited riverbank management sites in Chantal where the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) helped build gabion walls that contributed to protect schools, communities, farmlands, harvests and critical infrastructure during Hurricane Sandy that hit Haiti last week.
Photo credit: Manuth Buth/UNDP Cambodia
In March 2020, over 330 students, women champions, government officials, NGO members and community members from around Kampot and Kep gathered in an effort to plant 3,000 mangroves and conserve Cambodia’s coastline. Shoes were abandoned on the sideline as people waded into the mud and shallows – the mission was much more important than worrying about dirty feet.
The local activity took place as part of a larger mangrove planting and marine exhibition under ActionAid Cambodia’s 100,000 Mangroves campaign, supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) under the project ‘Strengthening Climate Information and Early Warning Systems in Cambodia’. The campaign aims to plant 100,000 mangroves in eight community fisheries by May 2020 and raise awareness of the importance of marine ecosystems.
For more information, visit www.adaptation-undp.org/how-mangroves-mud-and-music-are-h...
Syrian Mohamad Hajj Staify arranges his goods at his tented kiosk where he sells fruits and vegetables at the UNDP-supported Marj market in the village of Marj in the Bekaa Valley, east of Lebanon.
10 February 2014
Photo: Dalia Khamissy/UNDP
NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 05: Executive Producer, author, and host Padma Lakshmi speaks onstage at 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))
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
Photo credit: Manuth Buth/UNDP Cambodia
In March 2020, over 330 students, women champions, government officials, NGO members and community members from around Kampot and Kep gathered in an effort to plant 3,000 mangroves and conserve Cambodia’s coastline. Shoes were abandoned on the sideline as people waded into the mud and shallows – the mission was much more important than worrying about dirty feet.
The local activity took place as part of a larger mangrove planting and marine exhibition under ActionAid Cambodia’s 100,000 Mangroves campaign, supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) under the project ‘Strengthening Climate Information and Early Warning Systems in Cambodia’. The campaign aims to plant 100,000 mangroves in eight community fisheries by May 2020 and raise awareness of the importance of marine ecosystems.
For more information, visit www.adaptation-undp.org/how-mangroves-mud-and-music-are-h...
UNDP's Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) programmes supports the transition of combatants from soldiers into civilians by providing vocational and job training skills. Initiatives such as these provide jobs and foster peace and social cohesion.
Credit photo: ©UNDP/Aude.Rossignol
Click here for more information about UNDP's work in Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration: www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/ourwork/crisispreventio...
Photo credit: Manuth Buth/UNDP Cambodia
In March 2020, over 330 students, women champions, government officials, NGO members and community members from around Kampot and Kep gathered in an effort to plant 3,000 mangroves and conserve Cambodia’s coastline. Shoes were abandoned on the sideline as people waded into the mud and shallows – the mission was much more important than worrying about dirty feet.
The local activity took place as part of a larger mangrove planting and marine exhibition under ActionAid Cambodia’s 100,000 Mangroves campaign, supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) under the project ‘Strengthening Climate Information and Early Warning Systems in Cambodia’. The campaign aims to plant 100,000 mangroves in eight community fisheries by May 2020 and raise awareness of the importance of marine ecosystems.
For more information, visit www.adaptation-undp.org/how-mangroves-mud-and-music-are-h...
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
UNDP Goodwill Ambassador, HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway and the Minister of International Development, H. E. Mr. Heikki Holmås did a three-day visit to Haiti. They met with Haitian authorities, Haitian people and members of the civil society .During his first visit to Haiti, the Crown Prince of Norway was impressed by the dynamics and resourcefulness of Haitian communities to rebuild their cities and their economy. Photo: UNDP/Haiti
Mr. Asif Iqbal, Principal Economist, Social Policy and Development Centre; Mr. Shakeel Ahmad, Programme Officer / OIC, Poverty Reduction Unit UNDP; Mr. Marc-André Franche, Country Director UNDP; Mr. Murad Ali Shah, Finance Advisor, Government of Sindh; Mr. Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, Senior Minister, Government of Sindh; Mr. Arif Ahmed Khan, Additional Chief Secretary, Planning and Development, Government of Sindh; Dr. Shahida Sajjad, Department of Special Education, University of Karachi; Mr. Haris Gazdar, Senior Research Fellow, Collective for Social Sciences, Karachi (Left to right)
Lebanese grains vendor Najah Abu Taha, 41, stands in the middle of his kiosk at the UNDP-supported Marj market in the village of Marj in the Bekaa Valley, east of Lebanon.
10 February 2014
Photo: Dalia Khamissy/UNDP
UNDP Administrator Helen Clark leaves a meeting in quake-ravaged Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Sunday, 18 January, 2010
Mariana Nissen /UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
Joanesburgo, 14 de Maio de 2010 – O Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento (PNUD), em parceria com a Olympus Corporation e a Fundação Agence France-Presse (AFP), lançaram hoje, em Joanesburgo, África do Sul, o segundo concurso anual de fotografia “Fotografe essa ideia”. O concurso, intitulado Fotografe essa ideia: Podemos Acabar com a Pobreza, procura mostrar como os países estão trabalhando para alcançar os Objectivos de Desenvolvimento do Milénio (ODM) – oito objectivos acordados pelos líderes mundiais para reduzir a pobreza pela metade até 2015.
“Através do concurso de fotografia, queremos mostrar que os ODM podem ser atingidos, mesmo nos países mais pobres e mais desfavorecidos”, afirmou Helen Clark, administradora do PNUD, no lançamento do concurso. “Espera-se que o concurso chame atenção para o facto de que o prazo para os ODM se concretizarem aproxima-se rapidamente — por isso é importante motivar as pessoas e os governos de todos os países a redobrarem seus esforços na luta contra a pobreza extrema.”
O concurso deste ano é especialmente importante, uma vez que coincide com a cimeira da Nações Unidas sobre os Objectivos de Desenvolvimento do Milénio, que se realizará em Setembro, em Nova Iorque. A cimeira reunirá os líderes mundiais a fim de reforçar o progresso da luta contra a pobreza e de assumir um compromisso para uma agenda de acções concretas para a realização dos ODM até 2015.
O embaixador da boa vontade do PNUD e renomado actor internacional, António Banderas, é um dos cinco juízes que seleccionarão as fotografias vencedoras. “Este é um momento decisivo da luta contra a pobreza. Não é uma só pessoa, organização ou governo que conseguirá ultrapassar as dificuldades de concretização dos ODM. É necessário mobilizar todos os sectores da sociedade num apelo à acção: um grande empurrão para 2015. Este concurso de fotografia é o tipo de iniciativa que irá reunir todos estes grupos diversos para chamar a atenção para a urgência de se concretizarem os ODM.”
As fotografias vencedoras serão expostas durante a cimeira, dando um rosto humano aos ODM.
O concurso está aberto a fotógrafos amadores e profissionais, do mundo inteiro. Os concorrentes podem enviar até três fotografias, focando o progresso em um dos oito ODM, de preferência num país em desenvolvimento.
Os oito objectivos são os seguintes:
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Erradicar a pobreza extrema e a fome;
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Conseguir uma educação básica universal;
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Promover a igualdade de género e o empoderamento das mulheres;
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Reduzir a mortalidade infantil;
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Melhorar a saúde materna;
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Combater o VIH/SIDA, a malária e outras doenças;
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Garantir um ambiente sustentável;
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Desenvolver uma parceria global para o desenvolvimento.
O prazo para as candidaturas ao concurso termina à meia-noite do dia 16 de Julho de 2010, EST (GMT -5).
Os outro quatro juízes que irão seleccionar as fotografias vencedoras são fotojornalistas profissionais: Alexandra Avakian e John Isaac, ambos fotógrafos renomados, bem como Mark Garten, director do departamento de fotografia da ONU e Paola Messana, responsável pelo escritório da AFP em Nova Iorque.
Além dos três vencedores em cada uma das categorias profissional e amadora, haverá também um prémio “Escolha do público”. O vencedor desta categoria será seleccionado pelo público, que poderá votar nas fotografias exibidas no site Fotografe essa ideia. As três fotografias com melhor classificação em cada categoria, profissional e amadora, bem como a imagem vencedora da “Escolha do público”, serão exibidas nos sites dos patrocinadores e em pelo menos duas exposições, no Japão e nos Estados Unidos.
Os vencedores dos primeiros prémios nas categorias profissional e amadora e o vencedor da “Escolha do público” viajarão até Nova Iorque, para a cerimónia de atribuição dos prémios e lançamento de uma exposição, a ocorrer em Setembro.
“É com grande satisfação que a Fundação AFP apoia uma vez mais este concurso de fotografia”, declarou Robert Holloway, director da Fundação AFP. “Cremos que será uma oportunidade para fotógrafos profissionais e amadores, de qualquer lugar, mostrarem ao mundo como é que as pessoas comuns estão a lidar com a concretização dos desafios mais prementes em termos de desenvolvimento, por esse mundo fora”.
O presidente da Olympus, Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, afirmou em Tóquio: “Esperamos que, através desta iniciativa, no mundo inteiro, as pessoas se inspirem com imagens mostrando que a mais simples das acções, seja de quem for ou onde quer que viva, pode de facto contribuir para o esforço de deter a pobreza extrema. É tempo de o mundo perceber que temos todos um papel a desempenhar na concretização dos Objectivos e que, não importa onde vivamos ou o que façamos, temos todos o potencial para contribuir para o desenvolvimento humano nos nossos países, comunidades e localidades.”
O concurso de 2009, centrado em África, Fotografe essa ideia: Proteger o Planeta, deu origem a uma exposição internacional itinerante (Genebra, Joanesburgo, Nova Iorque, Osaca, St Louis no Senegal e Tóquio). Além disso, meios de comunicação cobriram de maneira extensiva não só o concurso, mas tambem as histórias dos participantes e assuntos ligados às alterações climáticas e à degradação ambiental em África.
Photo credit: Jati Mallick/UNDP Bangladesh
Relates to UNDP-supported GEF-LDCF funded ICBA-AR Project www.bd.undp.org/content/bangladesh/en/home/projects/integ...
New York, 7 June 2018 - UNDP Executive Board connects live with Senegal to hear about the country’s groundbreaking PUDC programme.
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
UNDP Governance Practitioners from East and Southern Africa listen intently at the presentations on the first day of the three day workshop (15 -17 February, 2012) in Nairobi.
Vendors look on as they stand in the middle of a tented kiosk selling fruits and vegetables at the UNDP-supported Marj market in the village of Marj in the Bekaa Valley, east of Lebanon.
10 February 2014
Photo: Dalia Khamissy/UNDP
Wed. 13 September2017, NYC - Opening day of UNDP's exhibition "Survivors" at Photoville in NYC under the Brooklyn Bridge. STORIES OF SURVIVORS OF VIOLENT EXTREMISM IN AFRICA is a UNDP project featuring photographs and stories documented in 2016 across six African countries that have been directly affected by violent extremism – Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Somalia and Uganda.The photo essay was shot by the renowned female photographer, Malin Fezehai.
To see more: survivors-of-extremism.undp.org/en?_ga=2.201035052.340749...
Between 2011 and 2016, more than 33,300 Africans lost their lives to violent extremism. The growth of violent extremism has set in motion a dramatic reversal of development gains in Africa, and is also threatening to stunt prospects of development for years to come. Africa bears the brunt of the impact of terrorism in lives lost, economies ruined and relationships fractured. Extremists target public spaces such as markets and bus stations, forcing people to make a choice between risking death by going to work, or risking the very survival of their families.
In response, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Africa has developed a strategy to prevent and respond to violent extremism through a development lens.
In the photo exhibition, “Stories of Survivors,” the UNDP and photographer Malin Fezehai seek to shed light on and amplify the voices of those who often suffer in silence. Theirs are stories of resilience, perseverance and the triumph of humanity, as they rebuild their lives again. The survivors’ diverse religious, ethnic and national backgrounds highlight that violent extremism is a shared burden, and one that humanity, as a whole, must respond to.
To read about the report and the findings: journey-to-extremism.undp.org
© UNDP / Freya Morales
UNDP Administrator Helen Clark and Haitian President Rene Preval leave a meeting in quake-ravaged Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Sunday, 18 January, 2010
Mariana Nissen /UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
A Syrian female farmer plants seeds inside a UNDP-supported farmer's cooperative nursery in the village of Tal Abbas in Akkar, north of Lebanon.
11 February 2014
Photo: Dalia Khamissy/UNDP
5 March 2010, Bilwarah, Rajsathan, India -- UNDP Administrator Helen Clark and Union Cabinet Minister C P Josh (left) interact with villagers on a field trip in Kishanganj in Rajasthan.
Photo: Jay Mandal/UNDP