By Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa. A few milestones in March 2018 Seven years of war on children in Syria Three years... read more →
By Fouad Bergigui Biodiversity is much more than a list of species of microbes, fauna and flora, it is the colourful image we have of our landscapes, the inspiration for... read more →
By Kishan Khoday and John Knox Among the various drivers of risk in the world today, two stand out: climate change and rapidly rising levels of inequality. While each... read more →
By Kishan Khoday and Oscar Ekdahl More frequent and severe droughts, millions at risk of famine, the spread of conflict and mass displacement - these are the challenges of... read more →
By Joan, Josep and Jordi Roca* In our age of conspicuous consumption and excess, it frightens us to know that one out of nine people – or 815 million children,... read more →
By Sara Jerving* Thirty-one-year-old Omar Muhudin Abdulle is trying to lure tourists to his hometown, Mogadishu. His company, Visit Mogadishu, provides tours to the city’s beaches, markets, and historical landmarks, including the... read more →
By Owen Shumba, Team Leader, Livelihoods and Economic Recovery I recently visited a number of countries on a monitoring mission for the joint IOM-UNDP Global Project on Mainstreaming Migration in National... read more →
By Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, Head of Climate Change Adaptation, Global Environmental Finance Unit, UNDP 132 We live in a world of tenuous truths, shortened attention spans, competing priorities, and even-more complicated social... read more →
By Magdy Martínez-Solimán, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Director of UNDP’s Bureau for Policy and Programme Support and Oscar Fernández-Taranco, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support Over the past 20 years, the world has... read more →
By Marijke Wijnroks, Jonathan Klein* Over the past 15 years, the world has come together to respond to a health crisis of historic magnitude by fighting the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis and... read more →