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21 Jul 2014
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11 Jul 2014
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16 May 2014
Mr. Haoliang Xu, UN Assistant Secretary General, UNDP Assistant Administrator and Regional Director for the Asia-Pacific concluded his three-day visit to Nepal urging the government leadership to quickly complete the transition process. He commended Nepal’s leaders for committing to graduate from the ranks of least developed countries by 2022, but said that strong political commitment accompanied by measurable actions was need to achieve the goals within next 8 years.
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23 Apr 2014
The first-ever two-day national dialogue on the legal and social challenges facing, as well as the opportunities for, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people and organizations in Nepal closed today with a call to the government to decriminalize same-sex sexual activity in the law and urged greater protection of rights of sexual and gender minorities. The participants also called on the government and affiliated parties to enshrine the rights of sexual and gender minorities in the constitution.
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11 Apr 2014
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07 Apr 2014
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have reached an agreement to implement a programme supporting the Supreme Court of Nepal and the Ministry of Law and Justice, Constituent Assembly and Parliamentary Affairs in minimizing impunity and protection and promotion of access to justice for thousands of poor and vulnerable people in Nepal.
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12 Sep 2013
Norway to provide USD 4.054 million for a new rule of law and human rights programme; the programme seeks to increase access to justice for thousands of vulnerable and poor people in Nepal and increase the rate of implementation of court judgments to 50 percent.
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02 Sep 2013
Mr. Haoliang Xu assumes his role as the new Director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today.
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15 Jul 2013
Community Based Flood and Glacial Lake Outburst Risk Reduction Project (CBFGLOF), a joint initiative of GoN and UNDP, will directly benefit an estimated 96, 562 members of climate change vulnerable communities. The project contributes to Nepal’s National Adaptation Plan of Action’s (NAPA) Profile 3 and 4 ‘Community-Based Disaster Management for Facilitating Climate Adaptation’ and ‘GLOF Monitoring and Disaster Risk Reduction’ respectively.
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28 May 2013
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21 Mar 2013
The United Nations presented today the first findings from an unprecedented global conversation through which people from all over the world have been invited to help Member States shape the future development agenda that will build on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) after their target date at the end of 2015.
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18 Feb 2013
UNDP has successfully concluded its $12 million partnership with the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for Round 7 HIV grant that supported the National HIV/AIDS response in Nepal between 2008 and 2012—handing over Anti-Retroviral Treatment facilities and adequate HIV/AIDS drugs and supplies until March 2014. The facilities and supplies have been transferred to the National Centre for AIDS and STD Control (NCASC).
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06 Feb 2013
DELL, a leading global IT company, today collaborated to provide 40 laptop computers to schools in rural Nepal. The recipient schools are powered by renewable energy sources promoted by UNDP and the Government of Nepal.
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07 Dec 2012
Mr. Ajay Chhibber, UN Assistant Secretary General, UNDP Assistant Administrator and Regional Director for the Asia-Pacific concluded his two-day visit to Nepal urging the government leadership to find a way to end political instability before it begins to affect the entire economy. Expressing UNDP’s continued commitment to assist Nepal in its development efforts, he offered to do more—including pushing Nepal’s case for more concessional access to climate financing.
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04 Dec 2012
Mr. Ajay Chhibber, UN Assistant Secretary General, UNDP Assistant Administrator, and Director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific is arriving tomorrow for a three day (5-7 Dec.) visit to gain firsthand knowledge of current development situation.
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29 Nov 2012
Today the Election Commission of Nepal (ECN), the European Commission (EC) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have embarked on a new partnership to strengthen the foundations of democracy in Nepal. A four year financing agreement was signed between the European Commission and Ministry of Finance to support the Election Commission’s ambitious institutional strengthening reform agenda that is built on its recent successes. A separate project implementation document was also signed between Election Commission and UNDP to implement the reform programme.
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16 Aug 2012
The Government of Nepal, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) jointly launched the “Ecosystem based Adaptation in mountain ecosystem in Nepal (EbA)” Project today. The project aims at implementing an emerging approach to help people to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change.
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20 Jun 2012
In a high-level forum at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development today the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) presented the conceptual groundwork for a future “Sustainable Human Development Index,” which would recognize the cost of human development to future generations.
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10 May 2012
The Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Mr. Kedar Nath Upadhyay, together with the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator (RC/HC), Robert Piper, today drew attention to the humanitarian impact of the continuing bandh in the Far Western Region (FWR).
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05 Apr 2012
Africa’s urban population will increase from 414 million to over 1.2 billion by 2050 while that of Asia will soar from 1.9 billion to 3.3 billion. Both regions together will account for 86 per cent of all increase in the world’s urban population according to the 2011 Revision of the World Urbanization Prospects, launched by the United Nations today.
