Healthy Forests for Healthy People

Actions of Local Communities across the Region

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What we do?

As  the country looks towards the European Union, UNDP supports the government to build an inclusive society—where everyone has access to services and can participate in making decisions that affect their lives. Our support involves developing human and institutional capacities, providing knowledge, demonstrating solutions, building partnerships, and raising funds for development.

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UNDP North Macedonia and EBRD have partnered together to implement the Green Finance Facility (GFF) project

By developing and operationalizing the Green Finance Facility project, access to finance for SMEs and households to purchase renewable energy (RE) and energy efficient (EE) investments will be significantly enhanced

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Together with the private sector, UNDP supports young women in STEM

United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in North Macedonia in partnership with the Limak Group, the Ministry of Education and Science has awarded 20 female engineering students with scholarships through the Global Engineer Girls (GEG) initiative

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Behavioral science - one way towards a smarter policy action to reduce air pollution

UNDP North Macedonia and its AccLab team embarked on a journey to understand how using behavioral sciences and experiments (nudges) can help us tackle air pollution in the City of Skopje

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Loreta's story:

How the Care Economy Program Enabled me to Become a Certified Caregiver for Persons with Disabilities in Veles

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Ќе се подобруваат капацитетите на нови десет општини преку програмата „Зајакнување на општинските совети“

Станува збор за општините Кисела Вода, Студеничани, Градско, Карбинци, Виница, Дебар, Маврово и Ростуше, Гевгелија, Ресен и Ранковце

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Kapacitetet e dhjetë komunave të reja do të përmirësohen përmes programit "Fuqizimi i këshillave komunale

Bëhet fjalë për komunat Kisella Vodë, Studeniçan, Gradsko, Karbinci, Vinicë, Dibër, Mavrovë dhe Rostushë, Gjevgjeli, Resnjë dhe Rankovcë

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Citizen-Centered Financial Management at the Local Level

A Data Powered Positive Deviance (DPPD) Approach

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Community Forums will decide the projects that should be implemented in the municipalities

25 Community Forum moderators were awarded certificates within the framework of the project “Empowering Municipal Councils”

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How to increase employability of vulnerable returnees

The case of North Macedonia

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Time for opportunity and revisioning

Annual Conference on Decentralization and Local Governance 2022

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Gender Equality

Accelerate the achievement of gender equality in North Macedonia

In line with the new SDG 2030 Agenda, UNDP CO North Macedonia is placing gender equality and the empowerment of women in the center of its work in order to ensure that commitments on gender equality are translated into actions in all thematic areas: Inclusive Prosperity, Democratic Governance and Environment.

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Recent development news

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Costs to rebuild Ukraine increase sharply

According to Ukraine’s second Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (RDNA), $411 billion is now needed to rebuild and recover from the full-scale Russian invasion, a ...

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Financing green projects to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement

The Government of Japan has expressed interest in cooperating with Kazakhstan under the “Joint Crediting Mechanism” (JCM), a new tool for achieving the countries'...

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Social enterprises in Cahul and Ungheni will implement community initiatives thanks to EU support

Three social enterprises from Ungheni and Cahul regions will benefit from grants of overall €60,000 from the European Union, offered as part of the “EU4Moldova: F...

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UNDP North Macedonia and EBRD have partnered together to implement the Green Finance Facility (GFF) project

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How to efficiently respond to new human rights challenges in the context of war

A two-day training event for members of the Secretariat of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for human rights and its regional network has been completed. It ...

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Our Impact

37.5%

Women in Parliament

21.8%

below the poverty line

22.6%

unemployed

97.3%

Adult literacy rate

19%

Gender Inequality Index

39.6%

Area covered by forest