United Nations Resident Coordinator (RC) and United Nations Development Programme Resident Representative (RR), her excellency, Mrs. Jacinta Barrins visited Chobe District to familiarize herself with the district and development challenges that the district is faced with. Her journey set off from Gaborone to Maun...

The new United Nations Resident Coordinator & UNDP Resident Representative, Her Excellency Mrs Jacinta Barrins visited Ngamiland on the 1st March 2017 accompanied by the Environment and Climate Change Specialist Dr Oduetse Koboto. Her Excellency started off the day by visiting Sehithwa village and paid a courtesy...

The new United Nations Resident Coordinator and United Nations Development Programme Resident Representative, Jacinta Barrins presented her letter of credence to the His Excellency Lieutenant General, Dr Seretse Khama Ian Khama, President of the Republic of Botswana. In her new role as the Resident Coordinator...

The United Nations (UN) Botswana hosted a meeting to present the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Country Programme Documents (CPD) to development partners. The aim of the meeting was to share...

Botswana’s transformative blueprint, Vision 2036, was launched by the President, Lt. General Dr. Seretse Khama Ian Khama at the country’s 50th Independence Anniversary on 30 September 2016. It succeeds Vision 2016, set in 1996. A framework for “Achieving Prosperity for All,” Vision 2036 will spur Botswana towards...

La Nina to wreck havock The United Nations De­velopment Programme (UNDP) which works in nearly 170 countries and territo­ries, helping to achieve the erad­ication of poverty and the reduc­tion of inequalities and exclusion has warned that climate extremes are likely to persist. According to the UNDP, climate...

The Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (GEF/SGP) Botswana has commenced the process of developing the Operational Phase 6 (OP6) Country Programme Strategy (CPS) in linewith the global programme requirements and alignment with GEF 6 strategic initiatives. The CPS development exercise is being used...

This year’s World Water Day focuses on the links between water and jobs.  Almost half of all workers – 1.5 billion people – work in water-related sectors, and nearly all jobs depend on the availability of freshwater. Despite its paramount importance, water as a sector generally does not receive the attention it...

Sustainable development in the 21st century is not something which happens to somebody else, somewhere else. We all have a stake in it -- and every country has work to do to progress towards it.

UNDP Botswana Environment and Climate Change Unit conducted a 3 day training in Kasane from the 7-9th September for the government of Botswana through Ministry of Environment, wildlife and Tourism. The training was necessitated by the challenges facing the environment sector in terms of understanding different...