United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Guinea Bissau

Unverified non-profit organisation

UNDP is one of United Nation organisations that has targets for reducing poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women by 2015. On the ground in 166 countries, UNDP uses its global network to help the UN system and its partners to raise awareness, track progress and advocate for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. UNDP operates in 177 countries, working with nations on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and its wide range of partners.

Identified areas include:

  • Fighting poverty
  • Building Democratic Societies
  • Preventing crisis, enabling recovery
  • Protecting the environment
  • Halting and reversing HIV/AIDS
  • Empowering women
  • Growing national capacity

For further information on projects in the area please see the following link:
http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=fr&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gw.undp.org%2Fprojets.htm

Website

http://www.undp.org/rba/

Year established

1965

About this organisation

Partnership types

Advocacy of global issues; Project funding; Provision of goods

Regions / countries / territories

Africa: Guinea-Bissau

Global issues

Community development; Human rights