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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 promotes a culture of democratic participation
Professor Kenneth Attafuah, Executive Director of Justice and Human Rights Institute has called for an open society for state institutions to promote the dissemination of information to the public. He said in an open society the Executive, Legislature, Judiciary and other state institutions are proactive in the dissemination of information to the public and made government responsive and tolerant to ensure a transparent political society.
Prof.... >>Read |
UNDP Supports December Elections In Ghana
Thirty-six thousand security personnel drawn from the Police Service, the Prisons Service, the Ghana National Fire Service, the Immigration Service and the Customs, Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) will be deployed to maintain law and order during the December 7 elections.
They will be backed by 4,000 military personnel who will be on stand-by to quell any acts of violence during the elections.... >>Read |
'Craft guns' fuel West Africa crime epidemic
'A gun costs the same as a bunch of fresh flowers' so local blacksmiths feed a clandestine trade behind scores of muders and hundreds of armed robberies in Ghana each year' Joseph Kwaku interrupted his work hawking bootleg DVDs at a teeming road junction just long enough to ensure no police officer was within earshot. He said: "Yes, it's easy to get a gun here if you want one.... >>Read |
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