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UNDP helps countries across the Arab region to build and share their own solutions to development challenges within UNDP’s four main focus areas: Poverty Reduction and Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, Democratic Governance, Crisis Prevention and Recovery, and Environment and Sustainable Development. UNDP’s work also emphasizes the priority concerns of HIV/AIDS, gender equality, and the protection of human rights, while addressing as well the human development deficits identified by the first series of the Arab Human Development Report — in knowledge, freedom, and women’s empowerment. Building on the tradition of UNDP’s Global Human Development Reports, the Arab Human Development Report has become a milestone in the discussion and debate on the reform agenda for human development in the Arab region.
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road to rio: sustainable development summit
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.png) Sustainable development is about people. It is about creating jobs and improving lives while respecting the environment. Eradicating poverty, preventing conflicts, empowering women and girls, and building responsible governing institutions are critical components. Read more
“Road to Rio” is a series of posts by senior officials of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), outlining some of the key challenges around human development central for achieving the sustainable future we want.
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13 May 2012
 Sana’a - A signing ceremony of “Emergency Capacity Development Facility” project document was held today in Sana’a between the United Nations Development Programme and the Government of Yemen. The project aims to provide logistical and technical support to the key local entities to implement the Gulf Cooperation Council Initiative, signed in Riyadh on 23 November 2011, as well as to support the Government in implementing its Transitional Period Plan (2012 – 2014). Read more
11 May 2012
 Beirut - In coordination and co-sponsorship with the United Nations Development Programme’s Regional Center in Cairo (UNDP-RCC), the Carnegie Middle East Center is hosting today a presentation and discussion of UNDP’s Arab Development Challenges Report 2011: Towards the Developmental State in the Arab Region. Read more
2 May 2012
 Beirut - With the common aim of raising awareness on the environmental challenges, the United Nations Development Programme and BankMed signed a Memorandum of Understanding which includes a series of environmental activities in-line with achieving goal 7 “Environment Sustainability” of the Millennium Development Goals. Read more
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Highlights from Arab States
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A year ago, Khadija Baba would not have considered engaging in any independent civil society or political activities in her home town of Tripoli. Now, with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Baba has just completed the first phase of training to become a Civic Education Instructor for her peers in Libyan universities. (11 April 2012)
 Iraq
Amin Hassan Sulaiman was only ten years old when he lost his right leg, left arm, left eye and three fingers from his right hand after a mine exploded in his field. “I was grazing animals in Spring 2001 in my village Bekma when I found the strange object” Amin remembers. (4 April 2012)
 ocuppied Palestinian territory
Abu Odah, who used to earn $250 to $350 a month, now benefits from a $4,000 in-kind grant of fishing nets, provided by UNDP’s Deprived Families Economic Empowerment Programme (DEEP). His was one of nine households to receive these nets in his village, based on a needs assessment that flagged his family as extremely poor and in need of a small grant to get back on their feet.
 Lebanon
In one of the highest mountains of Mejdel Akkar - North Lebanon, far away from the noisiness the hectic city, three women cultivate sage plants. With other 22 women, these harvesters work in the Majdel Akkar Cooperation supported by the United Nations Development Programme in Lebanon.
 SudanUntil recently, farmers in northeast Sudan used to rely solely on rainfall for their subsistence crops, despite fertile land and groundwater close to the surface.
 LebanonZawtar Al Charkieh, the southern village, highly relying on agriculture as a source of income, was severely affected by the July 2006 war that caused immediate damages to 90% of agricultural fields including lands contaminated by cluster bombs.
.png) TunisiaAzza Badra was one of thousands of women in Tunisia who competed for a seat in yesterday’s national elections, the first since the country’s dramatic pro-democracy shift in January this year and since its independence in 1956.
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In the Spotlight
(Photo: NPA)
Today, Jordan marked a historical milestone. It is the first country in the Middle East to meet the deadline set by the Ottawa Mine-Ban Treaty and declare itself free of minefields.
The Northern Border Clearance Project, which celebrated its completion today, succeeded in clearing an estimated 136,000 landmines (anti-personnel and anti-tank) in a mine belt of approximately 10.5 square Km in area, stretching 104 Km along the Jordan-Syria border
“This impressive mine-clearance programme, does not only remove the physical risk to the population,” said Amat Alsoswa, Regional Director for the Arab States in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), “it also release precious land that can now be available for development.”
After securing the cleared minefields, the Jordanian army will be handing over 7 square Km of highly fertile land that is presently in the buffer zone between the minefields and the local farms to its original owners.
Reclaiming this vast area for agricultural use and livestock herding will benefit 50,000 people living in the border area.
In addition, removing the risk of landmines will allow other large-scale development initiatives to proceed, including the establishment of free trade zone around the city of Mafraq and the completion of Al-Wihda Dam.
Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA), the implementing partner of this project, mainly employed people from the local mine affected communities spread along the border zone to work as deminers, including an all-female demining team, which had performed exceptionally well, thus positively challenging prevailing culturally-defined gender roles. Read more
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