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Priorities Should Determine Access to Climate Finance
Friday, 15 April 2011, 8:15 pm | United Nations Development Programme
Koror, Palau - April 15] Would climate change still be a priority if there were no funds available? The availability of climate funds should not dictate the development agenda of Pacific Island countries. Instead, their national priorities should identify ... More >>
Building a Future of Financially Strong and Competent People
Wednesday, 19 January 2011, 11:20 am | United Nations Development Programme
[Suva, January 18] The next generation of children in Fiji will be equipped with skills to better handle spending, saving and investing money throughout their lives. This will be made possible through the Fiji Financial Education Curriculum Development ... More >>
Violence Against Women - Missing Millennium Development Goal
Tuesday, 7 December 2010, 12:00 pm | United Nations Development Programme
"Tackling violence against women would address the gender dimensions of the Development Goals," says UN expert on violence against women The following statement was issued by the Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its causes and consequences, ... More >>
Drogba to Join Football Greats in Match Against Poverty
Tuesday, 7 December 2010, 9:43 am | United Nations Development Programme
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Goodwill Ambassador Didier Drogba will join top footballers Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane in the 8th Annual Match Against Poverty on 14 December. The Match, which kicks off at the Karaiskakis Stadium in ... More >>
Climate Change Finance - Adaptation Starts Here
Monday, 6 December 2010, 11:51 am | United Nations Development Programme
At the beginning of this year I visited the Ekipe village in Vanuatu to meet with rural women, men and children. UNDP has helped this community to establish regular access to sources of fresh water, helping the villagers to deal with the problem ... More >>
Asia: Women with HIV face discrimination
Thursday, 2 December 2010, 10:49 am | United Nations Development Programme
HIV-positive women in Papua New Guinea, India and the Philippines face growing stigma and discrimination, and are inadequately protected by legal or social safety nets, according to a series of consultations by the United Nations Development Programme ... More >>
FSM Government Briefed on UNDP’s Human Development Report
Wednesday, 24 November 2010, 4:40 pm | United Nations Development Programme
Government officials of the Federated States of Micronesia were today briefed on the 20th Anniversary edition of the Human Development Report (HDR) as a follow up to the global launch that took place early this month. The briefing was held because ... More >>
UN Opens Joint Presence Office In Nauru
Friday, 10 September 2010, 3:20 pm | United Nations Development Programme
YAREN, 09 September 2010 – The Joint Presence of the United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Children’s Fund was today launched in Nauru by the President, Honourable Marcus Stephens. More >>
Communities Learn To Prepare For Disasters
Wednesday, 25 August 2010, 5:54 pm | United Nations Development Programme
Ambae, Vanuatu, 25 August, 2010) A workshop on Disaster Risk Management was recently held in the Lungei Tagaro Area Council in East Ambae, Vanuatu. More >>
Tuvalu: Empowerment Workshop Held For Communities
Tuesday, 6 July 2010, 4:35 pm | United Nations Development Programme
A recent workshop organized in the island of Vaitupu and Nui, in Tuvalu looked at how representatives from the different island councils and communities could better plan and budget for development funds. More >>
“There Are No Spectators,We Are All Players” TV
Tuesday, 15 June 2010, 7:00 pm | United Nations Development Programme
To kick-off the 2010 FIFA World Cup™, the UN Development Programme Goodwill Ambassadors, Didier Drogba and Zinedine Zidane, launched an anti-poverty TV spot appealing for the world to live up to the challenge and join the team that will beat poverty. More >>
Secretary-General On World Press Freedom Day
Saturday, 1 May 2010, 10:47 am | United Nations Development Programme
Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right, enshrined in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But around the world, there are governments and those wielding power who find many ways to obstruct it. More >>
Pacific Peace Builders Gather For Induction
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 5:43 pm | United Nations Development Programme
Representatives from governments, non government organizations, private sector and development partners will gather in Nadi for a ten-day induction workshop on peace building in the Pacific. More >>
Hope for a Cyclone Ravaged Pacific
Saturday, 20 March 2010, 1:38 pm | United Nations Development Programme
Shortly after Cyclone Pat tore through one of the Cook Islands’ most popular tourist destinations it became clear that quick action to rebuild homes and livelihoods was needed to head off another blow to Aitutaki’s fragile economy. More >>
Equal rights and opportunities: progress for all
Monday, 8 March 2010, 9:28 am | United Nations Development Programme
Right now, the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women is gathering in New York to review progress towards gender equality since the groundbreaking Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. That landmark conference recognized the barriers ... More >>
Asia-Pacific MDG Progress under Threat
Thursday, 18 February 2010, 9:22 am | United Nations Development Programme
A joint report by the United Nations and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) warns that the global economic crisis could trap an additional 21 million people in the Asia-Pacific region in extreme poverty, living on less than $1.25 a day. More >>
Report On Security Sector In Solomon Islands
Friday, 12 February 2010, 9:46 am | United Nations Development Programme
The Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat is pleased to be closely associated with the launch of a landmark first report on security sector governance in the Pacific. More >>
Helen Clark Calls For Social Protection In Pacific
Thursday, 11 February 2010, 10:51 am | United Nations Development Programme
The ongoing economic and financial crisis presents an opportunity to implement social protection programmes in the Pacific that address the needs of the vulnerable, said United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Helen Clark in her keynote ... More >>
UN Meetings Put Spotlight On Pacific Development
Monday, 8 February 2010, 9:38 am | United Nations Development Programme
Three high-level United Nations meetings will take place in Vanuatu next week, bringing together top UN officials, other development partners and leaders from the Pacific to assess the challenges faced by the region and to map out strategies to spur development ... More >>
Show Hosted By People Living With HIV Launched
Thursday, 14 January 2010, 10:17 am | United Nations Development Programme
--- “Positive Talks”, China’s first nationwide radio program run by HIV positive people, will soon hit the airwaves on China National Radio (CNR). More >>
