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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 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 |
UNDP promotes small arms control in Ghana
Even though the West African sub-region has seen progress in promoting peace and governance in recent years, the easy accessibility to small arms and light weapons could thwart the sub-region's critical agenda to consolidate peace and the prospects of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The key to the success of consolidating peace is for players in the sub-region to consistently coordinate their responses in tackling the proliferation of small arms to engender human security and sustainable development, Daouda Toure, Resident Coordinator of the UN system in Ghana, said on Monday.
He said this in a speech read for him at the opening of a two-week pilot course on small arms and light weapons for 30 participants from the sub-region at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) in Accra.
The course, which is supported by the Government of Japan, is part of a three-year programme targeting the National Commission for Small Arms and Light Weapons of ECOWAS countries to build the capacity of their staff in controlling small arms and light weapons proliferation.
It is a joint project of the Japanese government, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the government of Ghana.
Mr Tuore said research findings pointed to the fact that firearm related insecurity discouraged people from committing themselves and their resources to improve their lives in consistent manners.
He said insecurity hampered the accessibility for development partners and governments to effectively reach out to people in need, impacting labour, productivity, flow of resources, as well as access to various socio-economic opportunities.
Mr Toure said that it was in the interest of each country, in an era of inter-connectedness, to effectively address these challenges collectively and effectively in order for their communities to get together, build and retain their capacity to tap into opportunities for development.
Mr Keiichi Katakami, Japan's Ambassador to Ghana, also noted that whilst there were many encouraging developments, the protracted conflicts in Africa and their escalation were becoming worrying.
He said that support to the UN or AU-led peace operations, as well as strengthening the capacity of the AU and African countries, were the two effective and important interventions to prevent such proliferations.
Japan this year began supporting five peacekeeping training centres in Africa to build the capacity of the AU and African countries in peacekeeping.
It is also supporting ECOWAS member states, through the ECOWAS Small Arms Control Programme, in setting up and building the capacity of National Committees on small arms control.
The Ambassador said Japan was committed to peace building and expressed the hope that the course would impact positively at reducing the proliferation of small arms in West Africa.
Source: GNA... |
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