Amerindian communities with issues related to their lands, resources and territories will now be able to access the services of the Amerindian Land Titling (ALT) Project Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM) to have their respective issues addressed. In 2015 and 2016, stakeholders from the ALT project liaison...

Recovery activities include debris removal, short-term employment and community infrastructure rehabilitation Work to immediately start in most impacted areas UN Development Programme (UNDP) offices in the Caribbean have joined forces in a Regional Recovery Strategy for Irma-affected Small Island Developing...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) teamed up to host a workshop on 4th and 5th August, 2017 to validate the draft Gender Strategy that will be incorporated in the implementation of two existing projects and another project in...

The  Japan-Caribbean Climate Change Partnership (J-CCCP) was launched by the Office of Climate Change of the Government of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Bartica, Region Seven. The J-CCCP is supported by the Government of Japan with a contribution of...

On World Environment Day 2017, United Nations (UN) Resident Co-coordinator and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative in Guyana, Mikiko Tanaka formally presented the Guyana State of the Environment Report to the Government at a simple launching ceremony and cocktail reception at...

Guyana’s Human Development Index (HDI) is 0.638 which puts the county in the medium human development category and positioning it at 127 out of 188 countries and territories. This is according the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) flagship report on Human Development for 2016. The report finds that...

A United Nations team of experts visited Guyana in February to explore the needs for constitutional reform. The visit followed a formal request from the Government of Guyana for support in the constitutional reform process, highlighting the United Nations’ significant global expertise in the area of constitutional...

Georgetown, Guyana, 16 June, 2016 – On June 16, 2016 the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) hosted an Inception Workshop for a project titled - “Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management and Reduction in the Agriculture Sector in...

The Government of Guyana is collaborating with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Global Environment Facility (GEF), and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to implement the “Enhancing Biodiversity Protection through Strengthened Monitoring, Enforcement and Uptake of Environmental Regulations in...

The United Nations Development Programme is supporting the implementation of the “Enhancing the Economic Livelihood of the Poor” project with the hope of achieving three outputs: Develop a compendium of south-south policy options and best practices for the development of the rural poor; Develop and align skills...