As a child, Nargul faced difficulties at her school. It had nothing to do with her abilities. She is hearing-impaired, and unfortunately, faced bullying at school. After a while, it was too challenging to study with other speaking kids, and she stopped going. Like Nargul, the almost 10,000 people living with disabilities in...

Anyone visiting Turkmenistan remembers it for its culture, brightness of colors, welcoming people and the heat. Steadily increasing of air temperature and reduced rainfall are caused by climate change. However, you won’t feel it unless you are engaged into the agriculture. Agriculture is the main consumer of water...

Ashgabat, 8 September 2017: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Economy of Turkmenistan and its State Water Design Institute are carrying out research to measure the effects of climate change on agriculture in Turkmenistan. UNDP will engage young academics in...

Ashgabat, August 21-September 1, 2017: The United Nations Development Program, in conjunction with the State Statistics Committee of Turkmenistan, has undertaken the large task of translating the internationally recognised Eurotrace computer software from English into Russian. Now that this essential piece of...

Ashgabat, 1 September 2017: The unveiling of a new Training and Methodology Centre for Sustainable Development Goals took place at the Institute of International Relations in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs this afternoon. In a joint project between the UN and Government of Turkmenistan, the centre was set up...

Brussels—Representatives of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Central Asia and the European Union (EU) discussed in Brussels the development challenges and opportunities, and their future collaboration in the region. Having made considerable progress on multiple fronts since their independence in...

Ashgabat, 18 August 2017: UNDP and the State Committee for Nature Protection and Land Resources jointly with partners at national and local level discussed the final results of the project “Addressing Climate Change Risks to Farming Systems in Turkmenistan at National and Community Level” funded by the...

Ashgabat, 9-11 August 2017: A three-day seminar has taken place discussing in detail the progressive role Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have had in Turkmenistan. UN Country Team offered its staff an opportunity to increase their knowledge of the Agenda 2030, to learn about UNCT work on SDGs and...

Irina Imamkulieva is a winner of UNDP Essay Contest “My role in achieving SDGs”. She works as a journalist for the “Neutral Turkmenistan” newspaper.   As a journalist I write on various topics. But the special theme for me is women empowerment and gender equality. This topic excites me and as a woman who has two...

Ashgabat, 16 August 2017: The UNDP project “Supporting climate resilient livelihoods in agricultural communities in drought-prone areas of Turkmenistan” board meeting took place in Ashgabat this afternoon. The project is jointly funded by the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF), the Government of Turkmenistan and...

Ashgabat, 20 June 2017: United Nations agencies and a number of ministries and government institutions of Turkmenistan have reached the final stage of establishing a mechanism for monitoring and assessment of the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), approved in September 2016. To this end,...

Ashgabat, 7 July 2017:  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has hosted a round table on the results of the first phase of the UN MAPS mission with participation of the members of the National Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) comprised of deputy heads of 47 national entities, UN Country Team and...

Ashgabat, 17 July 2017: The Working Group on Ensuring the Implementation of International Human Rights Obligations and International Humanitarian Law within the framework of a joint project with UNDP and the National Institute for Democracy and Human Rights under the President of Turkmenistan held a working...

Lebap, Dashoguz, 1-25 June 2017: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) scales up its programme on climate change and adaptation by expanding it work to the new regions of Turkmenistan to building resilience of the local population to effects of climate change. During the month of June 2017, UNDP held a...