Baku, Azerbaijan - The Office of the UN Resident Coordinator in Azerbaijan welcomes the Presidential Decree on establishment of the National Coordination Council on Sustainable Development. We are encouraged to see that the Government is creating the National Coordination Council on Sustainable Development, as a...

Masalli, Azerbaijan – The Government of Azerbaijan, the US Agency for International Development and the UN Development Programme in Azerbaijan officially opened a Women Resource Center and  a SYSLAB Employment Center in Masalli region of Azerbaijan on Thursday. These centers were established in the framework of...

Baku, Azerbaijan - United Nations Development Programme welcomed the National Bio-diversity Strategy and Action Plan for 2017-2020 adopted by the President of Azerbaijan. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative, Mr. Ghulam M. Isaczai highlighted the importance of the National Strategy...

BAKU, AZERBAIJAN -  “This is a timely event with some important themes. The round table on the human capital of migrants and refugees addresses an issue of great importance. The number of people displaced by conflict and violence around the world is now estimated at 65 million – the highest figure since the...

he United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today appointed globally acclaimed actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, best known for his starring role on HBO’s Game of Thrones, as its newest Goodwill Ambassador. In this new role, the Danish actor will focus on raising awareness and support for the Sustainable Development Goals. Also known as the Global Goals, they are a universal call to action to end poverty, fight inequality and stop climate change.

Over the last two years, UNDP in Azerbaijan has collaborated to establish a Model United Nations and boost the MUN movement in the country. The Model UN movement unites youth from different educational backgrounds and social status. Their shared interest in global affairs unites them, creating a strong network...

Baku, Azerbaijan – Today, the signing ceremony of the joint project on “Support to the Civil Service Training in the Republic of Azerbaijan" was held at the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The project document is signed by the United Nations Development...

On May 14, 2016 the ceremony of the official handover of technical facilities was held at the Academy of State Border Services in the framework of the joint project on “Better coordination on the protection of the land border between Azerbaijan and Georgia”. During the event, off-road and all-terrain vechicles,...

Today the Project Inception Ceremony was held to launch the project on “Enabling civil society to play a greater role in advancing gender equality and women’s rights”. The project aims to increase the role of the civil society in advancing women’s rights and promote rural women’s economic and social...

On 12-15 May, 2016 Model United Nations Conference in Nakhchivan is being held at Nakhchivan State University for the first time. This event is UNDP’s first event ever organized in Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic.  The work of UN General Assembly will be simulated at the Conference with the topic of  "Development of...

Today, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Azerbaijan, together with the State Customs Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan, has launched a project to support the development of a border crossing point between Azerbaijan and Georgia. The project will be focused on the Red Bridge crossing...

28 April 2016, BAKU – The Minister of Labour and Social Protection of Population, Salim Muslumov  and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative, Ghulam M. Isaczai signed a project document on “Economic Empowerment for Entrepreneurship and Employment”, with a total budget of $189,000....

Mehemmed Veliyev, a 45-year-old farmer living in Abrikh Village in Azerbaijan, had a good life. He had hectares of land to grow fruits and hazelnut. However, the environment he depended upon turned on him one day in 2008, when a flash flood came from the mountains and destroyed his land. For Veliyev now, life is a...

When 31 year-old Gunel Samadova heard about the recently opened Women Resource Centre in Neftchala, she immediately signed up for the course. The centre offers, among other things, technical support to women to set up their own companies. ‘I have been dreaming about opening a fitness centre in Neftchala to...

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.