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UNDP Mozambique Launches the Global Risk Identification Programme
Maputo, 7 May 2008 – Honoured by high level Government officials, UN staff, donor community, civil society organizations, private sector and media representatives, UNDP Mozambique launched today the Global Risk Identification Programme – GRIP to present and discuss the Risk Assessment activities that Mozambique is going to undertake and raise interest, support and engagement from the various sectors of Mozambique’s society.
UNDP Funded Training Trainers Project in Civil Society Organizations’
Maputo, 18 April 2008 - As part of its country programme for 2007-2009 UNDP is carrying out an intervention aimed at developing the capacities of Civil Society Organisations (CSO’s) in research based policy analysis and advocacy.
UNDP in the Session of Discussions of the Report on HIV/AIDS in the Micro-Finance Sector
Maputo, 11th April 2008 – Within the framework of the National Micro-Finance Strategy in Mozambique, the National Directorate for the Promotion of Rural Development (DNPDR) is implementing several sub-components within the project: “Building an Inclusive Financial Sector in Mozambique”, with the support of the UNDP/UNCDF, which includes a sub-component of HIV/AIDS.
Human Development Report 2007/2008
The Human Development Report 2007/2008 shows that climate change is not just a future scenario. Increased exposure to droughts, floods and storms is already destroying opportunity and reinforcing inequality. Meanwhile, there is now overwhelming scientific evidence that the world is moving towards the point at which irreversible ecological catastrophe becomes unavoidable. Business-as-usual climate change points in a clear direction: unprecedented reversal in human development in our lifetime, and acute risks for our children and their grandchildren.
National Human Development Report 2007 - Mozambique
This is the sixth NHDR produced since 1998. The theme of the 2007 edition is the HIV and AIDS pandemic. The report looks carefully at general status of HIV and AIDS in Mozambique, its different facets and causes, its historical evolution, how it is regarded by society and its potential impact on the public and private sectors. The report finds that HIV and AIDS are exacerbating the problems of poverty, malnutrition, low educational levels and gender disparities, thus threatening the attainment of the MDGs as well as slowing growth and development.