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COVID-19: Human development on course to decline this year for the first time since 1990
Concerted action with a focus on equity could still limit the impacts of this unprecedented crisis: closing the digital divide would reduce by more than two-thirds the number of children currently not…
Generation Unlimited Call for Application
Generation Unlimited (GenU), Youth Challenge 2.0, is a global partnership being implemented in Guyana by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF). GenU…
Human Development Report 2019
Despite global progress in tackling poverty, hunger and disease, a “new generation of inequalities” indicates that many societies are not working as they should, the UN Development Programme (UNDP)…
UNDP pilots Community Disaster Risk Reduction Projects in Guyana
UNDP, with funding from the Government of Japan, disbursed grants to six villages in the North Rupununi, Region 9, through the project “Strengthening Disaster Management Capacity of Women in the…
Enhancing Livelihoods in Disaster Prone Communities
Strengthening Disaster Management Capacity of Women in the Cooperative Republic of Guyana and Commonwealth of Dominica.
Addressing Food Insecurity and Gender Stereotypes in North Rupununi – One Woman’s Story
Strengthening Disaster Management Capacity of Women in the Cooperative Republic of Guyana and Commonwealth of Dominica.
Strengthen Disaster Management Capacity of Women in the Cooperative Republic of Guyana and Commonwealth of Dominica
Twenty-four residents from fourteen neighboring villages, which are prone to the flooding and droughts, were invited to a Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) training…
Half of World’s Poor are Children
Half of all people living in poverty are younger than 18 years old, according to estimates from the 2018 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) released today by the United Nations Development…
