Livelihoods and Economic Recovery

Residents remove rubble from their collapsed house in the area of Delmas 32. UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti is working in cooperation with international and national agencies in order to clear roads that are being blocked by piles of rubble around Port au Price. (Photo: Marco Dormino)
Breaking traditional gender barriers after the 2010 Pakistan floods, the women of Sindh learned masonry through UNDP's Cash-for-Work project--part of the wider Livelihoods & Economic Recovery Programme needed after the floods to rebuild Pakistan's local economy, infrastructure & create jobs. Photo: Satomi Kato

UNDP works with crisis affected communities, households, ex-combatants and their associated members, internally displaced people, and diverse local and international partners to build capacities for sustainable livelihoods recovery— particularly through improving conditions for employment creation and income earning opportunities.

Our Goals

We aim to reinforce UNDP’s work on livelihoods and economic recovery in crisis and post crisis situations by adopting a more integrated approach to livelihood recovery, disarmament, demobilization and reintegration, and mine action. Our work starts early in crisis and post crisis environments, and provides peace dividends and recovery results early on.  It enhances security and aims to quickly create the foundation for long term recovery and development. While in the short term we aim to stabilize crisis affected people’s livelihoods, in the long term we enable inclusive economic growth and poverty reduction in crisis and post crisis countries.  MORE >

Our Focus

Projects and Initiatives

Responding to UNDP Administrator's Call for Community Resilience in Sudan

Following Administrator Helen Clark’s call for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to move away from being an overly risk calculating organization into one that is more

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 more

Former fighters find hope through skills training in Nepal

Nepalgunj - Bimala Ramjali was only 14 years old when her sister brought her to join the Maoist fighters, a group of communist insurgents in Nepal’s more

Burundi: A new market revives a community

"Every morning, I feel like my energy is renewed when I remember I have to go to work at the Mutambara market construction site", says Alice more

Bringing economic security to women in Nepal

Dipmala Mahato is beginning to feel the benefits that financial prosperity can bring. While she still lives in a one-room home, constructed of mud and roughly more

Hamida at work on a milling machine provided by UNDP; in business with two other women, the trio provide milling and grinding service to the people in the town of Berdale, Uganda.

Bright Future for Berdale Communities in Somalia supported by UNDP Programmes

Berdale district bears the brunt of the civil war in the country. Most of its population is agro-pastoralists and small scale business people. A UNDP area-based early recovery project targets five villages and Berdale town itself targeting 281 vulnerable households. The project consisted of heagriculture, establishment of small business and infrastructure rehabilitation. more

Rebuilding Livelihoods in Liberia

Martha lost her husband during the civil war that tore Liberia apart and left 75 percent of the population in extreme poverty. A mother of two, more

Albania: Mine free and on the road to development

Albania is officially free from mine threats, following a decade of demining. Combined efforts by government agencies and UNDP resulted in the destruction of 12,452 anti-personnel more

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3x6 Approach: Re-integration of Ex-Combatants in Burundi
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Guide on Livelihoods & Economic Recovery in Crisis Situations
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Livelihoods and Economic Recovery
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Fast Facts: Dismarmament Demoblization and Reintegration
Publications
  • Nepal: Human Stories from the Field English
  • How to Guide – Monitoring and Evaluation for DDR Programmes English
  • Update: UN Interagency Rehabilitation Programme English
Did you know?
  • In 2012, UNDP provided viable job opportunities to nearly 14,000
    ex-combatants and their associates in Afghanistan, Burundi, Central African Republic, Indonesia, Somalia, Nepal, Sudan, and South Sudan.
  • In Haiti we created about 12 million workdays for earthquake affected people.
  • In other countries such as Uganda, Myanmar, Palestine, Nepal, Kenya altogether over 24,000 disaster and conflict affected people were helped to set up micro and small enterprises, through provision of start-up grants/packages and microcredit.