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UN fund to help poverty hit Afghans endure winter without mass displacement

The fund aims to inject liquidity into Afghan households by providing cash to Afghan workers in public works programmes and micro-enterprises.

Beyond barriers of prejudice: Syrian and Turkish youth work together

A UNDP project funded by Government of Japan and carried out in partnership with the Ministry of Youth and Sports aims to provide training for employment and entrepreneurship and focused on social cohesion in Turkey among Turkish and Syrian youth.

Empowering women through engineering: Turkey’s Engineer Girls

The collaboration between UNDP, Limak Foundation, and the Ministries of Family and Social Services and National Education aims to support young girls and women interested in becoming engineers in Turkey.

Win-win: Free masks for small enterprises, formal work for Syrian refugees

Two UN agencies, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), have collaborated in a scheme to provide free masks to workers in Gaziantep’s industrial zone, produced by Syrian refugees.

Coup and pandemic could drive half of Myanmar into poverty by 2022

“The hardest hit will be poor urban populations and the worst affected will be female heads of household,” says Kanni Wignaraja, the UNDP’s assistant secretary-general for the region.

Turkey's first lady receives UN award for Zero Waste recycling project

Emine Erdogan received the Global Goals Action Award from the UN Development Programme for the country's zero waste project that she has led since 2017.

UN poll shows concern over climate emergency is growing massively

The UN says a large majority of those who do recognise a climate emergency want urgent and comprehensive action.

UN warns world may pay 'terrible price' if it fails Sudan

UNDP administrator Achim Steiner says it is up to the Sudanese people to decide what kind of society they now wanted, but they needed the help of the international community to build that society.

Israel claims UN funds channelled to Hamas

Hamas denies Israeli allegations that a UN group was exploiting funds in Gaza after a Palestinian UN employee was charged with ‘aiding Hamas'.