Vanuatu is one of the few countries in the world spared by the COVID-19 pandemic but the socio-economic impacts are spreading further than the virus itself.
Humanity needs leadership and solidarity to defeat COVID-19
In 2019, #NextGenUNDP continued to refocus an organization born into a different generation, making us ready for this one and the next. Pushing the boundaries of how we think, invest, manage and deliver to drive progress towards the SDGs.
If you’ve been following the news related to COVID-19, you will have heard the mantra “testing, testing, testing”. The understanding is, if we don’t know how the virus is spreading, how can we possibly contain or manage it?
The report concludes that the measure is feasible and urgently needed, with the pandemic now spreading at a rate of more than 1.5 million new cases per week.
Separated from her son since he was five years old, Kelera has not seen his face in years. She has never forgotten his smile, and her only hope was to see him again while she is serving a life sentence.
COVID-19 is a wake-up call – more worrying in the face of climate change and biodiversity loss – on how pressures on nature threaten development and fairer societies
BLOG | Building resilience on Fogafale in Tuvalu
Sea level rise is one of the most severe impacts of climate change, with rising waters threatening to inundate small-island nations and coastal regions by the end of the century. The World Bank estimates that by 2040, sea level rise would lead to a more modest but still large loss of about 5.8 to 10 percent of Fogafale’s (Funafuti) land area and expose a further 10 to 11 percent of land area to occasional inundations.
Progress against the multiple dimensions of poverty was made before the pandemic – but now it is at risk
New figures released show that before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, progress was being made in tackling multidimensional poverty, according to the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a measure that looks beyond income to include access to safe water, education, electricity, food and six other indicators. Now that progress is at risk.
BLOG | Connecting the dots to ensure access to justice and social protections in Fiji’s response to COVID-19
As I drove up from the main corridor connecting Suva to its satellite town of Nasinu, the sun poked gently through deeply charcoaled clouds, creating just a little patch of blue sky while rain fell heavily. Making a site visit to Wainibuku just outside of Nasinu, I arrived to find a village packed onto a muddy hillside, as if threatened by a potential landslide in the rain. Wainibuku is the mission site for the United Nations Development Programme and the Ministry of Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation’s REACH Project.
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