Released on the eve of the Paris climate change conference (COP21), this report – a mix of infographics and country case examples – outlines UNDP’s decades-long support to partner countries to tackle climate change. For the first time covering UNDP’s entire climate change approach, including mitigation and sustainable energy, climate change adaptation, forestry, and support to INDCs, the report is a comprehensive look at what is now a US$ 2.3 billion portfolio across 140 countries.
In September 2015, the world ratified a bold new agenda that is nothing short of revolutionary in its aims. In just 15 years, the international community has pledged to end extreme poverty, fight injustice and inequality and to combat climate change.
This video portrays how the forests and summer pastures of Ismayilli region of Azerbaijan degrade because of overgrazing and exceeding cattle/sheep breeding. We are introducing eco-system based approach to sustainable manage the exceeding practice. This video is prepared in the framework of the projects on "Ecosystem-based approaches to climate change" (Clima East Pilot Project and "Sustainable Land and Forest Management in the Greater Caucasus landscape" (GEF Project). Projects are financed by EU and GEF, respectively.
This documentary film highlights areas of viable cooperation between the United Nations and Azerbaijan over the last twenty-three years, our joint activities in the field of sustainable development in Azerbaijan and promotes the values and principles of the United Nations in the country. The film is dedicated to the 70th Anniversary of the United Nations, observed together with the Government, development partners and civil society of Azerbaijan.
The United Nations Democracy Fund invites civil society organizations to apply for funding for projects to advance and support democracy. Project proposals may be submitted on-line between 15 November 2015 and 31 December 2015. UNDEF projects are two years long. Applicants can request a grant of a minimum of 100,000 US dollars and a maximum of 300,000 US dollars.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN's development agency, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources. On the ground in more than 170 countries and territories, we offer global perspective and local insight to help empower lives and build resilient nations.
In 2016, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will celebrate its 50th anniversary. UNDP came into being in 1966 as a merger of two predecessors: the Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance, and the United Nations Special Fund. Today, fifty years later, UNDP is as relevant as ever: leading the UN development system in over 170 countries and territories and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. To mark the occasion, UNDP is hosting a Ministerial Meeting on 24 February 2016. Ministers from all UN Member States are invited.
The United Nations summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda will be held from 25 to 27 September 2015, in New York and convened as a high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly.
The publication summarizes progress of the UN System in Azerbaijan towards achieving the outcomes of the UN Development Assistance Framework and charts out the work plan for 2015.
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