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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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UNDP supported Sunflower Bio-diesel production in Ghana to start in January 2009
Agona Asafo(C/R), Nov. 10, GNA - A total of 230 hectares of Sunflower farms for the production of Bio-diesel had matured and ready for harvesting.
The farms, established at Tumu, Walewale, Mpaha and Damongo in the northern part of the country, and Agona Asafo near Agona Swedru in the Central Region are raw materials to feed the Bio-diesel factory that would begin production in January 2009.... >>Read |
UNDP funds Manual on Election Adjudication in Ghana
Accra, Nov. 11, GNA - Mr Daouda Toure, UNDP Resident Representative in Ghana, congratulated the Judicial Service for coming out with the manual saying it would go a long way in promoting peace.... >>Read |
UNDP supports Peace Council to hold workshop on elections
A three day workshop on election security management, aimed at harnessing the resources of key stakeholders for peaceful elections, has been held in Kumasi. The workshop, the third to be organised by the National Peace Council, under the auspices of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), brought together security personnel and experts, traditional rulers, civil society groups and religious leaders, to brainstorm on security matters and other issues relating to the country’s security, as the nation prepares towards the December elections.... >>Read |
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