BLOG | How to program for uncertain results? The innovation journey of the Pacific Risk Resilience Programme
Innovations are driven by risk-takers. Part of UNDP’s role in innovation is to provide the space for risk-takers to develop and test their ideas. And it turns out that sometimes these are not individuals, but entire programmes! The Pacific Risk Resilience Programme (PRRP) covers the Pacific countries of Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu, and takes an unusual approach within UNDP’s programme portfolio.
BLOG | A No to Corruption is a Yes for You: Pacific Anti-Corruption Movement a Testimony to the World
Every year,USD $1 trillion is paid in bribes while an estimated USD $2.6 trillion are stolen annually through corruption – a sum equivalent to more than 5 per cent of the global Gross Domestic Product (GDP). According to a report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in developing countries, funds lost to corruption are estimated at 10 times the amount of official development assistance.
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About the Pacific Office in Fiji
9,937,200
Population
31.4
Poverty rate
$2678.2
GNI per capita
0.645
Human Dev. Index