Most of the world’s nations are not doing enough to protect women and girls from the economic and social fallout being caused by the COVID-19 crisis, according to new data released today by UNDP and UN Women from the COVID-19 Global Gender Response Tracker. The tracker, which includes over 2,500 …
The world has sufficient resources to accelerate progress to accelerate progress in human development for all and to eradicate poverty. According to the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report 1998, the total additional yearly investment required to achieve universal access to basic social services would be an estimated US …
The United Nations Food Agency (UNFA) has predicted that 1999 will be a difficult year as far as natural disasters are concerned. "Forecasts for the 1999 show there will be a likely increase in the number of countries suffering emergencies and number of people needing humanitarian assistance,' said a UNFA …
Current economic growth patterns: the rich get richer, the poor get poorer. Take a look at the patterns of consumption between 1975 and 1995. The world's richest people - only 20 per cent of the population - accounted for 86 per cent of the total private consumption expenditure. While McDonald's …
IT is time humans learnt to manage their consumption patterns in an equitable manner. Growing inequity in the consumption of the world's resources is becoming one of the most pressing problems of the 20th Century. The United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report released this year attempts to highlight this …
Just what is sustainable development for Arunachal Pradesh? For the 865,000 people who live in Arunachal Pradesh, this is indeed a very important question. It came up recently at a seminar, jointly organised by the United Nations Development Programme and the Arunachal Pradesh government in Itanagar, to mark the release …
India is going to receive a technical assistance of US $14 million from the UNDP to strengthen its leather, fibre and handicrafts sections. The UNDP and the government of India signed two US $7 million agreements, one to support fibre and handicrafts sector and the second for leather industry. The …
Five United Nations' (UN) agencies have agreed to extend a US $20 million aid package to initiate a programme for untversalisation of elementary education in India. An agreement to this effect was signed recently by the department of economic affairs, education and five UN agencies - UNDP, UNICEF, UNESCO, ILO …
India will get assistance from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for conservation and sustainable management of the coral reef ecosystem off the coast of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. In this regard, the department of economic affairs, the ministry of environment and forests and UNDP have recently entered into …
The United Nations Development Programme has planned to provide a grant of US $280,000 for setting up a conservation education centre in Goa. The project will be implemented by the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF). In this regard, the government of Goa has already allocated 1,500 square metres of land …
there are around 50 million children not attending primary school in South Asia. And of those who do go to school, 60 million drop out each year. Welcome to South Asia: the most illiterate region of the world. Excluding Sri Lanka and Maldives, the rest of the region stands nowhere …
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Global Environment Facility (GEF) have launched a US $1.8 million project to help Sri Lanka expand its use of renewable energy sources, including wind, water and biomass, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions from thermal power. Much of Sri Lanka's domestic energy needs rely …
The Nepal government and the United Nations Development Project (UNDP) have recently concluded an agreement for providing US $2,5 million for the implementation of the ambitious Micro Enterprises Development Programme (MEDEP). MEDEP is being implemented by the ministry of industry with support from several partner organisations and other government ministries. …
More than 35 senior officials from various leading insurance firms recently came together in Zurich, Switzerland, to found, in association with the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), the Insurance Industry Initiative. The lead comes from the realisation within the insurance industry that protecting human life and property, preventing catastrophic events …
since its inception in 1991, the Global Environment Facility, a joint-project of the United Nations Development Programme (undp), United Nations Environment Programme (unep) and the World Bank (wb) has become an arena for North-South bickering. The gef 's ambitious mandate of finding solutions to environmental problems remains all the more …
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has proposed a us $25 million-plan to set up a chain of small hydel units in the Indian Himalayas in a bid to wean the local population away from their dependence on forest resources for energy needs. Around 20 units are to be set …
A project to develop a biosphere management programme for the Gulf of Mannar biosphere reserve has been planned by the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (mssrf). Estimated to cost us $6-8 million, the project will be aided by the Global Environment Facility and the United Nations Development Programme. A World …
According to a report of the UN, the HIV epidemic is far worse than previously thought. The report released by the joint UN programme on HIV/AIDS paints a grim picture of the spread of the HIV epidemic, particularly in such hard-hit developing regions as sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America …
The United Nations Development Prog-ramme (UNDP) has allocated US $100,000 to Vietnam to support the relief efforts for the typhoon-stricken areas in that country. Typhoon Linda which hit the southern tip of Vietnam has so far claimed 86 lives and has destroyed nearly 6,000 houses and flooded around 450,000 hectares …
the first Conference of Parties for the Convention to Combat Desertification ( cop-i ) held in Rome from September 29 to October 10, 1997 took decisions on issues such as funding and the venue for a permanent secretariat for the convention. With no additional resources coming from nations of the …
