Promoting young IT entrepreneurs in Ghana

With UNDP's support, a business development center has been lifting start-up companies onto Ghana's national IT market.

Access to water is transforming life in rural Senegal

A joint UNDP and Government well programme has been improving the opportunities and future of people like 12-year-old Kalla all across Senegal.

UNDP launches cash-for-work in Southern Kyrgyzstan

More than 1,100 people have started work on repairing roads, cleaning up irrigation systems, removing litter and restoring parks as part of an initiative by UNDP and local municipalities.

Tanzania: UNDP project saves mountain forests for future generations

UNDP has successfully finalized a seven-year biodiversity project that saved thousands of hectares of fragile forestland on a mountain range in northeast Tanzania.

Brazil and UNDP agree on joint project to support Haiti public health
29 July - UNDP Administrator Helen Clark and Brazil’s Minister of Health José Gomes Temporão signed an agreement for a joint project to strengthen public health and tracking of infectious diseases in Haiti.

Stronger social safety net for HIV-positive households needed in Asia
22 July - Job insecurity, inadequate food intake and poor education are a few of the pressures that should be tackled more strongly by AIDS strategies, according to two new studies from Asia supported by UNDP.

Antonio Banderas, United Nations call for action on the MDGs
19 July - The UNDP Goodwill Ambassador spoke to an advocacy group created by the UN to bring attention the Millennium Development Goals.

UNDP announces 2010 Red Ribbon Award winners
16 July - Twenty-five community-based organisations representing 17 countries across the globe have won the 2010 Red Ribbon Award. The award recognizes outstanding community organisations for their work in reducing the spread and impact of AIDS.

• 22 July: Winners honoured in Vienna

UNDP promotes solar energy use in Botswana
13 July - UNDP and the Global Environment Facility have partnered with the Government and local communities to bring an eco-friendly and creative solution to a problem that causes damage to both the environment and health.
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