Europe & CIS

UNDP Ukraine Activity Report 2005-2007

In the last two years, UNDP worked closely with the leadership of Ukraine at the central, regional and local level to advance democracy, promote economic growth and improve the living standards of Ukrainians. Guided by the Millennium Declaration and human rights-based approach to programming, UNDP made efforts to empower people to address current challenges, starting with village communities, schools and local government offices, all the way up to the central level institutions of the state.

Business Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility, Georgia, October 2007

TBILISI. 23 October 2007 – Head of the United Nations in Georgia Robert Watkins and State Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration and Vice Prime Minister of Georgia Giorgi Baramidze at the specially convened Business Forum discussed best practices and prospects of Corporate Social Responsibility in Georgia.

The Business Forum is part of this year’s United Nations Week in Georgia. Annual UN Week is to celebrate the United Nations Day on 24 October and provide an update on the UN’s work in the country.

Dog Training Center improved within UNDP/EC project

The Dog Training Center of the State Border Committee of Belarus was recently opened at the Smarhon Border Service Detachment (Hronda region). The Center is improved within the UNDP/EC joint project "Enhancing the System of Immigration Control at the State Border of the Republic of Belarus"

NHDR 2007 launched in Poland

Warsaw, September 19, 2007. Today UNDP Poland launched together with the Chancellery of the President of Poland our 2007 NHDR "Education for labour" (report coordinated by Janusz Czamarski). The event gathered over 100 specialists dealing with education and labour market, including those from private sector. It was also attended by parliamentarians and ministers - including education and regional development at the level of ministers and other on vice-ministerial levels.

The Email Age

“Let me read my emails first and then we can sit and talk,” is often the first response we get when we greet our co-workers in the morning.  For organizations today, specifically for ones as large as the UNDP, email has a become the central and most essential tool throughout our workday. But how many emails do you receive every day? How many of them are useful, how many require a response and receive that response in a timely manner?

Involving the diaspora for sustainable and integrated community development

UNDP in Armenia has been working closely with Armenian diaspora organizations to improve livelihoods in several rural communities throughout the country.  Tapping this invaluable resource UNDP has brought together three important organizations to utilize the skills of each and thus supporting the development of those in need in Armenia. Through its Community Development Project UNDP has partnered with the Children of Armenia Fund, a diaspora established NGO, and USAID bringing together their respective skills and expertise to renovate primary and secondary schools and invigorate the local economy in Karakert village of Armenia.

Damir AHMETOVIC, UNDP Bosnia and Herzegovina

Meet Damir AHMETOVIC, Chief Technical Advisor for the federal Civil Service Agency.

Damir's life is made up of openness, determination and courage. "I like my work because it offers me a unique combination of challenge (to change people’s old beliefs), opportunity (to influence the formation of peoples’ new viewpoints) and satisfaction (when they embrace new practices).

Zharas TAKENOV, UNDP Kyrgyzstan

Get to know people behind projects who bring ideas and make UNDP knowledge management pragmatic and applicable. Meet Zharas Takenov, an international senior programme officer focusing on environmental issues in UNDP Kyrgyzstan.

Montenegro melts weapons stores

Montenegro showed its commitment to regional peace and security with the launch of a new demilitarization initiative aimed at reducing surplus weapons and ammunition.

UNESCAP/ADB/UNDP Regional Action Plan Urges Governments to Pay More Attention to the Social Agenda

BISHKEK, 20, July 2007  – Participants at a UNESCAP, ADB, UNDP development forum have called on North and Central Asian governments to channel the benefits of strong economic growth in recent years to lagging social sectors, by improving educational and health care services.

UNDP helps jump-start carbon market in Eastern Europe and the CIS

Climate change poses an unparalleled threat to human development. The countries of Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, - many still grappling with a communist legacy of environmentally-unfriendly industry - are among the world’s worst producers of greenhouse gases.

Support to private sector to ensure pro-poor growth

Development actors must offer targeted support, keyed to local conditions, if private entrepreneurship is to help reduce poverty, argues the latest edition of newsletter Development & Transition, which will be presented at the International Media Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility in Kyiv on 12 July.

Renewed pledges of support for Srebrenica

UNDP helped bring together the international community and local stakeholders in Bosnia and Herzegovina to focus development support to Srebrenica, the site of Europe’s worst massacre since the Second World War.

UNDP helps Albania boost green investment

UNDP and the Albanian government have signed a new initiative aimed at encouraging investment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fund sustainable development.

Cooperation to promote Black Sea development

UNDP is helping to further economic development in the Black Sea region through a new cooperation agreement with the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation.

Belgian companies do business and help development in Eastern Europe

UNDP Croatia launches 2nd Development & Transition national edition

UNDP Croatia has launched the second national edition of newsletter Development and Transition, this time focusing on Social Inclusion in Croatia, a complex issue that touches on poverty, access to services and work, human rights and many facets of daily life.

Sophie Tchitchinadze, Communications Analyst, Georgia CO

Get to know more about the people behind our projects and programmes - meet Sophie Tchitchinadze, Communications Analyst with UNDP Georgia.

UNDP, UC Rusal team up to fight climate change

UNDP and Russian UC Rusal, the world’s largest aluminium producer, are working together to step up efforts by Russian industry to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Strengthening partnerships for human development in Central Asia

UNDP and the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) brought together government officials as well as representatives of civil society organizations, donors and United Nations agencies to explore better ways of delivering development assistance to the five countries of Central Asia