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Deputy Project Manager, Suva, Fiji Organization: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme Country: Fiji City: Suva Office: UNDP Suva...

The coronavirus pandemic has invited the world to reflect on relationships – between people within and across countries and communities, and between people and nature around the planet.The vi

Securing Our Greener Future Source: Supplied Wednesday, 28 July 2021 11:23 AM For the first time ever, the UN Development Programme Small Grants Programme in Solomon Islands handed over the certificate of afforestation project completion to its grantee, Isi Akson Theatre Art Trust (Inc). With the outstanding goal to plant over 5,000 trees, the reforestation project had received the financial support from the UNDP Small Grants Programme (SGP) back in 2013, to restore biodiversity and create sustainable livelihoods in the Kolokisu community. Forests are vitally important for sustaining ...

Background Information – Project Background Over recent years, the Philippines has demonstrated a high potential for development. In 2013, in spite of Typhoon Haiyan, its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 7.2%, a net increase from 6.8% in 2012. The country thereby became the fastest growing amongst the five largest economies in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (also including Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand) and the second in Asia after China. However, the Philippines still faces some challenges to ensure inclusive growth for its population. With the specific aim of...

Published on: Sunday, July 25, 2021 By: Kan Yaw Chong Text Size: Preparing waste collected to get transported to mainland. IT REMINDED me a shell-shock sight of bales of compressed plastic bottles in 2019! My first reaction was: “Waa, that looks familiar upon receipt last Monday of a press release entitled: ‘Reef Check Malaysia sends another 1,500kg of trash off Mantanani; calls for more government help’.” This mountain of trash that had thrashed Mantanani is nothing new to me anymore. On August 2019, I followed Swiss-based Race for Water crew to the island in in a maiden trip. That w...