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Social Good Summit Geneva - New website online

The Social Good Summit Geneva brings together high level decisions makers to foster collaboration for the Sustainable Development Goals.

Villagers in rural Moldova join forces for clean water

Locals and migrants abroad contributed to restore the old rusty water pipes. Now the village has clean running water for the first time.

Accelerate2030: 2017 finalists come from Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, Ghana, Mexico, the Philippines, Rwanda, South Africa and Turkey

We are excited to share with you the names of the top 10 Accelerate2030 finalists from the 2017 edition from Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, Ghana, Mexico, the Philippines, Rwanda, South Africa and Turkey.

Gabon commits to protect its forests, gets funds to reduce emissions by 50%

USD 18 Million Deal with Central African Forest Initiative to better plan and monitor the use of land and protect over 23 million hectares of tropical rainforest

Maldives airports prepare action plan to cope with future natural disasters

Deutsche Post DHL Group and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will support the Maldives authorities in their efforts to build resilience against future natural disasters.

BLOG: Why prepare for disaster recovery?

Tobacco kills more than 7 million people per year and is costing the world economy USD 1.4 trillion annually

A new report from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Secretariat of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) echoes the theme of this year’s World No Tobacco Day, 31 May 2017: Tobacco - a threat to development.

Support hurricane recovery in Haiti

Hurricane Matthew struck Haiti on 4 October, causing widespread damage. 1.3 million people are affected and 750,000 need immediate assistance.

About UNDP Geneva

Based in the middle of Europe, the UNDP Office in Geneva contributes to UNDP’s mission through:

Serving as the UNDP Platform for Geneva and the Geneva-based organizations and as the primary point of contact with the governments of France and Switzerland.

Engaging substantively with a wide range of partners across Europe, in the public, private and non-governmental sectors.

Leveraging the presence of the humanitarian, human rights and development communities in Geneva, to enable the organization to deliver, in concrete and measurable ways, to the attainment of the MDGs.

Catalyzing south-south cooperation.

UNDP partnership with the Global Fund | Annual Report

The Report highlights the achievements and partnerships in responding to HIV, TB, malaria, and health more broadly. UNDP supports countries to implement large-scale health programmes—including reaching some of the most hard-to-reach populations and strengthening institutions to deliver essential services in challenging and high-risk country contexts. The partnership with the Global Fund has helped save 2.5 million lives.

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