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Liberia: 1.7 million sign up to vote with UNDP support

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is among national and international agencies that laid the groundwork for the 1.7 million Liberians, almost half of them women, who last month completed registration to vote in upcoming elections.

Creative industries are more resilient to economic crisis

Creative industries have shown more resilience to the impact of the global economic crisis than traditional manufacturing industries, according to the Creative Economy Report 2010 launched, today, at the United Nations.

Helping Haitians prepare for the future

The Government of Haiti and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launched the first prevention plan to reduce vulnerability to seismic threats.

Bangladesh: First woman to supervise country's elections

For the first time in the history of Bangladesh, a woman has overseen municipal elections, ensuring their accordance with electoral laws and providing guidance to presiding officers.

Tegegnework Gettu: Speech at Harvard African Development Conference

Keynote Speech at the Harvard African Development Conference by the Director of UNDP's Regional Bureau for Africa

UNDP helps boost Brazil-Africa partnerships

Brazil’s experience in lifting millions of people out of poverty and in spurring agricultural and energy innovations is crucial to promoting development in Africa, according to regional directors of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Liberia: Ivorian refugee needs outstrip aid

With a sharp increase in the number of Ivorian refugees crossing into Liberia during recent weeks following Cote d’Ivoire’s political crisis which began in November last year, United Nations agencies have pointed to the increasing need for emergency shelter.

Clark: Developing national capacity for peacebuilding

UNDP helps Pacific nations avert tsunami impacts

Within five minutes of receiving alerts about a possible tsunami from the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan on 11 March, more than 120,000 of an exposed coastal community in the Philippines, 2,000 kilometres south, were put on stand-by.

Clark: UN Inter-Agency Meeting on Inclusive Finance for Development

El Salvador: Women in parliament unite on new law against violence

A groundbreaking law aimed at halting high levels of violence against women in El Salvador, the Central American country with the world’s highest rates for murder of women, was officially made public last week following approval five months ago by the overwhelming majority of members of the national legislative assembly.

Joint effort helps restore Danube River and Black Sea ecosystems

An international plan, supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has helped to restore the fragile plant and animal life of the Danube River basin after 75 years of agricultural, industrial and municipal pollution.

Rain Water Harvesting Improves Lives of Small Farmers

Haiti elections: cell phones and internet to facilitate voter turnout

Donor Visit to The Netherlands

Haiti: UNDP maps earth's shifts to rebuild city on safer grounds

Landmines continue to kill or maim more than 4,000 people yearly

Barclays to assist 60,000 people in Africa anti-poverty effort

Clark: Local governance critical for achieving development goals

Brazil Carnival highlights anti-poverty goals

One of the most famous acts of the annual Carnival in Brazil this year dedicated itself to raising awareness about anti-poverty goals among thousands of people in Salvador, capital of the northeastern state of Bahia.