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With your help, UNDP addresses the world’s toughest challenges by taking action that directly impacts local communities.

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UNDP & Crowdfunding

UNDP has adopted crowdfunding as an alternative funding solution to support projects that are designed for and by the communities they serve. With UNDP’s long-standing commitment to transparency, and track record for accountability and aid effectiveness, giving through UNDP represents one of the clearest paths to making a difference at the local level in one of the 170 countries and territories UNDP serves.

Ongoing Campaigns

Ethiopia
Woman smiling, from rebuild her business campaign
Rebuild her business

Women in northern Ethiopia have lost the means to support their families and need your help to rebuild their businesses after the conflict.

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Uzbekistan
Green Aral Sea

Planting the drought-resistant saxaul tree on the Aral Sea’s dried seabed is the best way to turn tragedy into new opportunities for all.

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GLOBAL
#moments2live4

A global social media campaign to raise awareness on the importance of investing in better road safety performance within low- and middle-income countries.

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Past Campaigns

KYRGYZSTAN
Women Creative Lab

Creating a safe co-working space with the supportive network, where women and girls are provided with all necessary resources to learn and to work.

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COMOROS
Michezo, let’s play greener

Creation of a leisure park around a natural mangrove ecosystem, thus offering the opportunity to have in the capital a tourist area which represents a natural biological diversity.

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SERBIA
Building a sensory room for children

The goal of the campaign was to build a sensory room for children with developmental disabilities in Tutin, Serbia. UNDP Serbia, in partnership with the Municipality of Tutin, supported the Kindergarten efforts to launch and equip a sensory room through a crowdfunding campaign. The campaign reached its goal by 103%.

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COSTA RICA
Footprints4 ourFuture

Costa Rica seeks to rebuild a future with nature: a greener, more supportive, inclusive and sustainable future. Providing economic relief while contributing to ecosystem restoration, creating jobs for nurturing, planting at least 200,000 trees and maintaining them for 5 years.

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NORTH MACEDONIA
#Edu4All for at-risk children

With the funds mobilized from this crowdfunding campaign, the Shuto Orizari Center for daily support for at-risk children in North Macedonia will be equipped with computers and other IT equipment that will help at-risk children to stay on track with their educational needs and learn new skills.

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INDIA
Open Up India

India’s informal sector workers comprise more than 80% of the labour force and are deeply impacted by COVID-19. Act now to help them rebuild their lives.

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LEBANON
Ray of Hope

Education facilities in rural Lebanon suffer from energy shortages due to excessive blackout, high diesel cost, scarcity of fuel, and high maintenance cost. In Bakhoun Technical School, the energy deficiency is disrupting the access to education to more than 900 students.

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URUGUAY
Plantatón Uruguay

Plantatón Uruguay has begun planting 1,111 native trees in Punta del Diablo to restore the coastal forest of Uruguay. The initiative encouraged individual commitment and collective financing through crowdsourcing.

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THAILAND
Koh Tao, Better Together

Support COVID impacted communities to sustain their lives and ecosystem in Koh Tao. With funds generated from this campaign, 200 hundred boat drivers will collect marine debris and clean the beaches under the ‘cash for work’ modality. Households will be able to use the temporary basic income for food and basic utilities.

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ECUADOR
Save the Galapagos Islands and Empower its People

Galapagos, the planet's living laboratory, is home to 9,000 unique species and 35,000 humans. COVID-19 caused a complete cessation of tourism putting livelihoods and nature at risk. Support this campaign and guarantee the legacy of Galapagos through employment reactivation and training opportunities.

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MAURITIUS
Stronger Together for Mauritius

The catastrophic oil spill exacerbated livelihoods of thousands of Mauritians which had been damaged by COVID-19. Your gift will help fishers to rebuild and restore their livelihoods by enabling them to fish off the affected lagoon and to support their families.

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PHILIPPINES
Together for Tamaraws

Keep conservation heroes in their jobs. Rangers protecting the endangered tamaraw buffalos in the Philippines have lost their jobs as a result of COVID-19. Campaign contributions prevented illegal poaching while ensuring the rangers’ survival. The campaign has shown the power of working together to protect nature and livelihoods.

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MOROCCO
Bringing school back to children

Thousands of girls and boys living in the rural areas of Morocco cannot afford access to digital remote learning. Help us provide tablets and Internet connectivity to vulnerable students to allow them to complete their education during and after COVID-19.

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Our Impact

US$2.85

Million

Mobilised in 2020 - 21

20

Blog posts

7

Years

of Experience

500

Participants

5

Continents

>40

Countries

Success Stories

Plantación Uruguay

Plantatón Uruguay successfully closed its collective crowdfunding campaign that allowed 1,111 native trees to be planted and cared for in Punta del Diablo Public Park, an area affected by fires, in January 2021. The campaign raised $16,674 thanks to contributions from 152 people from 14 countries and 5 companies, exceeding the initial goal of acquiring 1,000 trees.

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People planting in Uruguay
Galapagos
Ecuador: Saving the Galapagos Islands

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Sensory room for childeren with disabilities
Serbia: A sensory room for a kindergarten

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Childeren playing on outdoor sports facilities in Stepevan, Armenia
Armenia: Sport facilities for children

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Traffic officer smiling and helping traffic
UN Road Safety Funds: Ending the high toll of road deaths

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Philippines
Hope for the Tamaraws

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Thailand
Man in front of Mauritius oil spill
Cleaning beaches during COVID-19

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