This report identifies contexts of Participatory Environmental Monitoring Committees in mining contexts, their membership, and relationships to government systems to prevent and mitigate environmental…  Read more

This guidance note offers a framework and practical guidance on the measurement of socioeconomic results by identifying relevant indicators and the instruments to attain the data and derive the…  Read more

This publication captures the experiences and lessons learned of the GEF Small Grants Programme, implemented by UNDP, on plastics management.  Read more

How a country with high levels of private land ownership is protecting its natural landscape.  Read more

2030 Agenda - Planet: protect the planet from degradation, through sustainable consumption and production, sustainably managing natural resources and taking urgent action on climate change.  Read more

ackson Hole Wild, the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) announced the…  Read more

At this time of year we focus on buying gifts for special people in our lives, but we rarely think the consequences of our spending.  Read more

Today over 2 billion people - one third of the global population - are poor or near-poor and face persistent threats to their livelihoods, including from climate change.  Read more

In 2011 Rwanda was literally in the dark-- 89 percent of the country, about 9.4 million people, didn’t have power. It was one of the lowest electrification rates in the world.  Read more

How much impact can just one clean energy change have on an entire community? It’s an idea that UNDP is testing by leading by example. And it started with a deadly epidemic.  Read more