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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) [note 1] is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development. The UNDP emphasizes on developing local capacity towards long-term self-sufficiency and prosperity.
The United Nations Global Pulse was launched in 2009 as an information initiative by the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General. [1] In August 2013, the New York Times reported that Global Pulse had its main "Pulse Lab" in New York City, with a staff of 14 there, plus a staff of 10 in their lab in Jakarta, Indonesia and 8 in their lab in Kampala, Uganda. [2]
United Nations Development Programme: New York City, United States Achim Steiner: 1965 UNICEF: United Nations Children's Fund: New York City, United States Catherine M. Russell: 1946 UNCDF: United Nations Capital Development Fund: New York City, United States Marc Bichler 1966 WFP: World Food Programme: Rome, Italy Cindy McCain: 1963 UNEP ...
World Population Day is an annual event, observed on July 11 every year, which seeks to raise awareness of global population issues. The event was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989. [2]
Zinedine Zidane (right) and Pavel Nedvěd playing in the eleventh match in March 2014. Adopted in 2000 and reaffirmed by the leaders of 191 countries at the UN Summit in 2005, the Millennium Development Goals seek to halve world poverty by 2015 by setting targets for rolling back hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women. [1]
Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor. The Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor was an independent international commission, hosted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and established in 2005 as the “first global initiative to focus on the link between exclusion, poverty, and the law.” [1] Drawing on three years of research and consultations, the Commission ...
The Earth Summits are decennial meetings of world leaders, organized since 1972 with help of the United Nations, to help defining ways to stimulate sustainable development at the global level. The aim is to bring together the best individuals and organisations humanity can bring forward from all kind of categories of life, to identify and ...
The UN-REDD Programme is a collaborative programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), created in 2008 in response to the UNFCCC decisions on the Bali Action Plan and REDD at COP 13. [68]