Emergency Employment

Nicasia Féliz (Blanquita), one of the leaders of a women artisans group in Dominican Republic supported by UNDP, proudly exhibits her craft work.
Nicasia Féliz (Blanquita), proudly exhibits her craft work.

UNDP helps people recover quickly from crisis by generating livelihoods and economic opportunities, creating emergency jobs and employment in viable enterprises or self-employment, with a special focus on youth, women's groups and internally displaced persons. At the same time we work closely with local governments and institutions to increase their capacity to create jobs and contribute to inclusive economic growth.

Our Goals

We aim to create jobs and employment, revitalize the economy, rehabilitate post crisis infrastructure and reintegrate internally displaced persons in their areas of return early on in post crisis.  Through our programmes and advisory services we seek to achieve transformational results by having wider impact on community lives, services that are pilotable in similar circumstances and in the long term influence policy at local and national levels.

Projects and Initiatives

After her wooden house was swept away by catastrophic flooding in the north of Pakistan, Gul Numa, over 80 years old, spent the initial weeks of August in a makeshift camp, where she struggled to care for her husband, who has long-term respiratory illness. more

A woman in the interior town of Bong Mines (Photo: UNICEF - Giacomo Pirozzi)

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, Martha did not have any formal training. She could not send her children to school as she was not able to pay their school fees. more

Villagers in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula are moving a fallen tree trunk as part of their efforts to clear debris from the forests following hurricane Wilma and, thereby, preserve the forests by preventing forest fires.

Helping Mexican villagers face disaster and climate risks

In 2005 Hurricane Wilma tore across Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, claiming thousands of hectares of tropical rainforest along with many fishing vessels. Marivel, a 38-year-old local fisherwoman of Mayan descent, says that her boat was among 350 destroyed in the town of Solferino, north of Cancun. more

Burying carcasses of livestock, casualties of Dzud (Photo: UNDP Mongolia)

Cash for Work Programme in Mongolia: UNDP Support to Dzud-Affected Herders

The harsh winter is over, but the devastation continues throughout Mongolia. People and animals are starving and exhausted. More than 8 million livestock have perished nationwide, and their rotting carcasses litter the countryside. more

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Did you know?
  • In 2010 alone we created short term jobs for over 240,000 people together in countries such as Haiti, Somalia, Honduras, Burundi.
  • 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.
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Crisis Prevention and Recovery Report 2008 - Post-Conflict Economic Recovery: Enabling Local Ingenuity

Post-conflict economic recovery aims to establish sustainable economic growth and human development while addressing the factors that could lead to a recurrence of conflict.  Post-conflict recovery is not about restoring pre-war economic or institutional arrangements.  It is about transformation — requiring a mix of far-reaching economic, institutional, legal, and policy reforms that allow war-torn countries to re-establish the foundations for self-sustaining development.