Inspiring India

Inspiring stories of change and voices from across India towards creating a sustainable future

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Campaigns
India welcomes Frankie the Dino this World Environment Day

This World Environment Day, Frankie the Dinosaur travelled to India as part of the global campaign Don't Choose Extinction.

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UN Assistant Secretary-General and Director, Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, UNDP, Ms. Kanni Wignaraja,
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UN Assistant Secretary-General and UNDP Regional Director Ms. Kanni Wignaraja visits India

During the week-long mission to the country, Ms. Wignaraja met senior government officials, private partners and thought leaders to discuss UNDP's work and support for the country's development priorities.

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Fatima's family has been in the handloom business since generations
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Weaving colours of hope: One handloom at a time

Having suffered greatly during the pandemic years, India's handloom sector needs to be supported to protect livelihoods and safeguarding a world-famous but declining trade.
Preeti Madwali at PHC Byakud, Belagavi, correlates the exact requirements of vaccines for upcoming vaccination
Blog
eVIN to Co-WIN: Digitizing India’s immunization programme

eVIN has made India's Universal Immunization Programme more efficient while ensuring quality vaccines for expecting mothers and children

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Savitramma, an avid apiarist and entrepreneur has built a sustainable honey business
Stories
Bee-Lady of the Honey-Hill

Under the National Rural Economic Transformation Project the State Government of Karnataka in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme is supporting entrepreneurs on important aspects of business operations, regulations, and creating market linkages

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Press Release
Press Release

Prajakta Koli - UNDP India's First Youth Climate Champion

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What we do

UNDP has worked in India since 1951 in almost all areas of human development, from systems and institutional strengthening to inclusive growth and sustainable livelihoods, as well as sustainable energy, environment and resilience. UNDP’s programmes continue to fully integrate a global vision for catalytic change with India’s national priorities.

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Your donation to UNDP can make a difference to our planet and in the lives of the most vulnerable population. Individual donations enable us to project our long-term funding needs and better plan sustainable long-term solutions towards climate change, livelihood development and institutional strengthening.

Help Safai Sathis Keep India’s Cities Clean- India
Help Safai Sathis Keep India’s Cities Clean

Safai Sathis (waste pickers), who form the backbone of India’s waste management, risk their lives to keep our cities clean by managing and segregating all kinds of household waste including COVID-19 medical waste.

Support them to reduce the impact of waste and provide them with better health and living conditions.

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Save Snow Leopards – Guardians Of The Himalaya

Snow Leopards are one of the rarest big cat species that inhabit high altitude areas above 3,000 meters. Today, their survival is threatened by loss of habitat, climate change and global warming.

Support UNDP’s efforts to save these wild species in remote landscapes of India.

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Odisha's Indigenous Communities- India
Help Replenish Water Bodies Of Odisha's Indigenous Communities

Water - the most important element that sustains all life, is still hard to find for many of the indigenous people living in hard-to-reach hilly terrains and forests of India.

Support UNDP’s work in training youth from indigenous tribal communities to become hydrologists who identify and map potential springs in their own and nearby habitations using a mobile application.

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    Our Impact

    >1.2

    million

    frontline workers trained
    on COVID-19 vaccination
    drive

    > 4

    million

    tonnes of CO2 emissions
    reduced

    177,000

    people

    across India empowered
    to access social protection
    schemes

    31,000

    trained

    on financial and
    digital literacy

    82,000

    MT

    plastic waste processed
    across 22 states

    9,000

    enterprises

    supported to continue
    business operations
    during the pandemic