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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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Development Partners urge the GAC and its stakeholders to focus on the core role of coordination
The Ghana Aids Commission (GAC) has signed a loan agreement with its development partners in the implementation of the 2009 HIV and AIDS Annual Work Plan and Response Programme.
The agreement is the outcome of a decision they accede to at an annual partnership meeting last month. The loan which is in the tune of $ 49 million dollars is expected to provide financial and technical support assistance in combating the HIV/AIDS pandemic.... >>Read |
UNDP and MTN launch ICT learning centre
The Mobile Telecommunications Network (MTN-Ghana) in partnership with UNDP and the Government of Ghana has launched the ‘MTN ICT Learning Centers’ to help improve upon the teaching and learning of ICT education in communities.The project involves the construction of 10 replicable ICT learning centers in each of the 10 regions in the country. Each center would be equipped with 20 computers, a printer, a photocopier, USBs, a digital camera with video capabilities, a scanner and other services. Ten districts, one from each region would benefit from the $670,000 project. Performing the launch, the British High Commissioner to South Africa, Mr.... >>Read |
UNDP and others acknowledged for their financial and technical support
The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) yesterday launched a National Strategy for the Development of Statistics known as Ghana Statistics Development Plan (GSDP) document and a Ghana Statistical Service Corporate Plan in Accra.
Speaking at the launch, Mrs Chinery Hesse, Chief Advisor to the President said the two books will serve as a tool for strengthening the organisational and management base for the implementation of the strategic plan.
She noted that for the GSS to effectively coordinate the National Statistical System, production and dissemination of relevant statistics should cover and satisfy the demands and needs of entities like the Association of Ghanaian Industries (AGI), Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs), National and Regional House of Chiefs, Private Contractors, Media Houses, MUSICA and Consumer Protection.
'The Government, on its part, will continue to mobilise resources and make them available to the GSS for the implementation of the two documents for a sustained invigoration of the NSS for effective production of relevant statistics for testing the resilience and robustness of Ghana's economy', she added.
Dr Grace Bediako, the Government Statistician, noted that much of the data needed to monitor the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) can be deprived from management information systems operated and used by ministries if statistical information from these sources are compiled and disseminated by statistical units in these ministries.... >>Read |
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