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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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Latest News
18 November 2009
Picture This: Caring for the Earth Photo Contest
.jpg) The winning photographs of an eco-themed photo contest focused on Africa feature environmentalists planting trees in a water catchment area in Kenya, Moroccan women turning plastic bags into handbags as part of a fair trade project, and a Kenyan couple planting a tree on their wedding day. ... Read More …
13 November 2009
 UNDP launched the “LIVE LEBANON” project with the aim of mobilizing Lebanese living abroad in support of local development in the most deprived and underprivileged areas of Lebanon. LIVE LEBANON will also evolve an innovative partnership between civil society, local and foreign authorities, the private sector and Lebanese emigrants, creating a broad network in support of the development of Lebanon. Read More …
10 November 2009
The establishment of the two water maintenance centreaims to improve the water management plan in South Lebanon and strengthen the water infrastructure. This will be achieved through the provision of essential equipment and machinery to resolve the problems in the pipe networks, and the organization of training sessions to the water technicians. All of this will help enhance the water supply and strengthen its quality. Read More …
3 November 2009
The Syria Trust for Development and UNDP will collaborate over a period of three years to establish a Platform of cooperation for development-focused NGOs in Syria. To be established as an independent legal entity, the NGO Platform will provide networking space for NGOs to communicate and share experiences, strengthen the capacities of member NGOs to carry out development projects and build technical capabilities within NGOs to develop and manage projects Read More …
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Highlights from Arab States
Djibouti
Popular Fund for Savings and Credits extends services to the neighbourhood level
Syria
Confident Steps on the Path of Change
Sudan
Community organizing and better boats transform lives in a fishing community
Sudan
Women framers make the best use improved irrigation
Lebanon
First One-day Elections
Supporting the conduct of free, fair and transparent elections
Lebanon
Project helps in enhancing cure rates for patients with cancer
Syria
Minimising Damages to the Environment that Olive Mill Waste Water can cause
Sudan
Code of Conduct for Prisons Staff Approved
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In the Spotlight
UNDP & League of Arab States launch report on
Development Challenges for the Arab States: A human Development Approach
21 December 2009
The report highlights six key interrelated challenges facing the region, including: institutional reform; job creation; the promotion and financing of pro-poor growth; the reform of educational systems, economic diversification, and increased food security and self-sufficiency within existing environmental constraints. The report stresses that dealing with these challenges requires the adoption of a comprehensive development model based on the human development approach which considers freedoms as the basis for development.. ... Read More …
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Secretary General of the League of Arab States
hails the launch of the Report as an “historic day for Comprehensive Arab Development”
UNDP:
“Now we need to go beyond diagnostics, to explore effective responses to the regional challenges identified by the Report.”
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