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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has implemented a one-million-dollar project to plant five million trees to restore degraded areas in the Black Volta landscape. The programme dubbed ‘OneTreePlanted’ which is a two-year plan (2022-2024) is being implemented under the UNDP Global Environment Facility Small Grant Programme (GEF/SGP) at Maluwe…

IN the spirit of restructuring and scaling up more years of excellence and impact, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) has appointed Dr. Joseph Daniel Onoja as the new Director General of the Foundation.

From the Field: Keeping China’s minority traditions alive

RESIDENTS OF St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), as well as visitors now have an additional recreational facility where they can have family or group limes or other such events. This new facility is the River 14 Recreational Park which is nestled in the community of South Rivers. The facility, which was developed by the General Employees Co-operative Credit Union (GECCU), and other partners was officially opened on Thursday, March …

The Banda Traditional Herbal Practitioners Association has received US$30,000 from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to implement climate resilience project to promote and sustain the herbal industry in the Banda District of the Bono Region. Hope Alive 360 Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organisation is facilitating the 18-month project, titled “building…

Greening agricultural produce for people and the planet: the story of a Social Entrepreneur in Ghana By Praise Nutakor || UNDP FEB 3, 2021 Meet Abdullah Hamza, the young social entrepreneur, doing amazing work in the Northern Region of Ghana. Hamza has a business model he calls ‘greening commodities’, which is contributing to the fight against climate change. “ Young people like me who read agriculture related courses in schools do not necessarily need to seek employment but only need t...