Fernando Carrera joined the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, Member (Senior Secretary) General Economics Division and nine Secretaries in a special session on SDG implementation in Bangladesh.
“The United Nations is now one team with one vision and one programme for the Chittagong Hill Tracts. The new programmatic framework is more than just a collection of programmes. It is a basis for comprehensive cooperation between UN agencies, development partners and the Government,” said Robert D. Watkins, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Bangladesh, at a meeting of UN agencies with other development partners today.
Deepening globalization, technological revolutions, particularly the digital revolution, and the environmental challenges are driving the transformation of work today, providing unbound opportunities and profound challenges for the countries including Bangladesh, says the Human Development Report (HDR) 2015 published recently by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
The last decade’s steady economic growth of around 6 percent and the resulting increased buying capacity of the middle and lower-middle income class is likely to drive Bangladesh’s Hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) consumption to increase by 100 MT per year, predicts a new Department of Environment (DoE) study.
Pabitra Bala is a 65 year old widow from Magura district in rural Bangladesh. She is extremely poor with very few belongings, earning only a small income of 1000 BDT (USD 13) a month from laboring on her neighbor’s land and begging in the town.
On 30 November 2015, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) of Bangladesh supported a delegation to participate in part of the Sharing and Learning on Community Based Disaster Management in Asia Project (CBDM Asia Phase II).
In her capacity as the UN Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development (UNSGSA), Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands has arrived in Dhaka today (16 November) on a three-day visit to Bangladesh upon invitation of the Bangladeshi government.
জাতিসংঘ উন্নয়ন গ্রুপ এর চেয়ারম্যান ও ইউএনডিপির এশিয়াপ্যাসিফিক অঞ্ছলের পরিচালক হাওলিয়াং জু পাঁচ দিনের এক সফরে আগামী কাল (১৫ নভেম্বর) বাংলাদেশে আসছেন। বাংলাদেশে এটি তার দ্বিতীয় সফর।
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17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) also known as Global Goals logos were launched in Bangladesh on Sunday, 20 September, during the Social Good Summit 2015 organised by UNDP at the NEC Auditorium of the Planning Commission.
UNDP Bangladesh jointly with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), Business Initiative Leading Development (BUILD) and the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industries (FBCCI) organized the “First Bangladesh Resilience Dialogue of Private Sector”. The Dialogue is a follow-up of the third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction that was held in Japan in March 2015.
As part of the events commemorating the international day of non-violence, UNDP convened a stakeholder forum to discuss the early findings of research commissioned on the impact of political violence
Read UNDP Administrator Helen Clark's Full Statement on the Adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals on 25th September.
At the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit on 25 September 2015, more than 150 world leaders adopted the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will support governments around the world in tackling the new agenda and taking it forward over the next 15 years.
Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on the 21 September. The United Nations General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples.
The “Millennium Development Goals: Bangladesh Progress Report 2015” was unveiled at an event hosted by the General Economics Division (GED) of the Planning commission with the support of UNDP on 16 September at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel, Dhaka.
UNDP Bangladesh held a press conference today (Thursday, 30 July) at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel) to mark the end of the Bangladesh leg of a multi-country public awareness campaign on climate change called “Pole to Paris”.
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Bangladesh in association with BD Cyclists organised a cycling event on Friday, 24 July from 6.30 am to 11 am in the morning to raise public awareness on climate change as part of the “Pole to Paris” campaign supported by UNDP.
On 8th July Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB) and Access to Information (a2i) project jointly presented Digital Bangladesh reporting and feature writing award for the year 2015 at the PIB-a2i Media Awards. The awards were given in collaboration with Press Institute of Bangladesh and Access to Information (a2i) Programme. A total number of 6 reporters were awarded in 5 categories this year.
Since 1972, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has been partnering with the people and communities of Bangladesh at various levels with significant contributions in reducing poverty, and the country's vulnerability to climate change and disaster, supporting democratic goverance and sustainable, green growth.
Helen Clark on the Development Challenges in the Asia Pacific region
UNDP adapted the concept of Public Narrative developed by Marshall Ganz to its work with youth. Youth have had the opportunity to share their stories, identify common needs and priorities and undertake civic engagement activities in their communities.
In 2013, Bangladesh continued to prove itself a resilient nation. The country achieved significant development results towards sustainable development pathways, inclusive and effective democratic governance and managing risks.
The Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme (CDMP) is a flagship collaborative initiative between the Ministry of Disaster and Relief (MoDR) and UNDP. See this timeline to know what this remarkable collaboration has achieved in the last 10 years.
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