Crisis Prevention and Recovery

Challenges in Arab States

Crises in the Arab States region vary considerably in their origin, history, intensity and complexity. Due to its highly diverse geology and geography, the region is exposed to many natural hazards including earthquakes; dry and wet land-mass movements; droughts; floods; storms; extreme temperatures; wildfires; and epidemics. Climate change is likely to further exacerbate the already existing problem of water scarcity in this region. More

Our Goals

UNDP works with national and international partners to prevent, mitigate, manage and help communities and countries recover from violent conflicts and natural disasters More

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Preventing crises, enabling recovery

• In conflict-affected areas of 10 states in Sudan, over 800,000 people benefited from UNDP-supported construction and restoration of basic services, including 685 water pumps, 281 classrooms, 88 health facilities and 3,350 latrines. UNDP administered almost US$1 billion in international assistance for the country.

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Syria

Responding to the Crisis in Syria

Since March 2011, Syria has been witnessing an internal civil unrest that has directly resulted in losses of human lives, weakened social services, and destruction of more

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Fighting for Peace: Hakamas in Darfur

Hakamas are a traditional part of the daily lives of men and women throughout the Darfur region in western Sudan. They used to comprise women singers who would accompany male combatants to the frontline, intoning their rally cries to the thrill of victory and the glory of battle. more

Community sensitization on the dangers of small arms and light weapons with the community center near completion in the background, July 2012 (Photo by: Ahmed Adam/UNDP)

Putting down the weapon, picking up the pen

Community Security and Arms Control (CSAC) interventions are a crucial element of UNDP’s Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) programme in Sudan which aims at creating conducive environments for the peaceful reintegration of ex-combatants and associated groups. Through the CSAC initiative UNDP responds to the security concerns that the communities themselves have identified, thereby strengthening the social cohesion between host communities and ex-combatants as well as bolstering the relationship between communities and state authorities. more

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Sweeter than honey: economic recovery returns to Darfur

South Darfur is known as a troubled region beset by years of endemic conflict, poverty, destruction of natural resources, and deterioration of livelihoods. However, the land is also a dynamic region that defies its popular conception as intractably and inevitably conflict-ridden. Recently, new projects being implemented by the UNDP Darfur Livelihoods Recovery Programme are slowly but surely changing that view. more

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UNDP responds to the Horn of Africa crisis

In Somalia, in spite of the security and access challenges, UNDP has rehabilitated essential agricultural infrastructure, including 80 water catchments that can store almost 380,000 cubic more

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Arab Development Challenges Report 2011

This second Development Challenges Report, coming at a time when the region is passing through a critical historical juncture, attempts to go beyond the numbers to uncover processes that have underpinned mutually reinforcing drivers of social, economic and political exclusion.

 This report argues that the development model followed in the Arab region can be placed on a more socially just foundation

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