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Welcome to UNDP Ghana |
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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the United Nations' global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to build a better life. UNDP has a presence and an unrivalled track-record in supporting national development efforts in more than 160 countries. Its current priority is to help all countries achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.
We are on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and our wide range of partners.
World leaders have pledged to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, including the overarching goal of cutting poverty in half by 2015. UNDP's network links and coordinates global and national efforts to reach these Goals. Our focus is helping countries build and share solutions to the challenges of:
• Democratic Governance
• Poverty Reduction
• Crisis Prevention and Recovery
• Energy and Environment
• HIV/AIDS
UNDP helps developing countries attract and use aid effectively. In all
our activities, we encourage the protection of human rights and the empowerment
of women.
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Recent News
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MINO Pledges to Support in the Dissemination of NHDR and the Implementation of its Recommendations.
Mr. Daouda Toure, United Nations Resident Representative, on Tuesday called for a more active participation by all and sundry in order to drive home the development agenda of the country.... >>Read |
YEN Stakeholders meetings
With support from the UNDP, the MMYE organized a stakeholder consultative workshop on 12th March, 2008 at the Coconut Grove Regency Hotel, Accra, to provide a platform for awareness creation, partnership building/strengthening for the YEN process as well as the finalization of a cabinet memo on the YEN and a letter of intent to relevant quarters expressing Ghana’s intension to join the YEN Lead Countries. The YEN is a network that seeks to engage and provide technical and financial support to partners and collaborators to create opportunities for decent and productive work for young women and men globally. The workshop which was opened by the Minister for Manpower, Youth and Employment, Hon.... >>Read |
UNDP supports agriculture in Yendi
Yendi (N/R), Feb. 19, GNA- The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has provided GHC 7,921 to the Yendi Peace Council (YPC), a social group, to assist unemployed youth in the Yendi Municipality to go into agriculture.
The money would be channelled through the Ministry of Food and Agriculture and beneficiaries would be expected to engage in dry season farming.
Bishop Vincent Sowah Boi-Nai, the Catholic Bishop of Yendi, announced these at a meeting of the YPC to brief members about the assistance, and the award he had received from the American Embassy for promoting peace in Dagbon.... >>Read |
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