Op-ed by Grete Faremo, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UNOPS, as seen in The Wall Street Journal, 13 July 2015​​

UNOPS is providing 170 Roma families, who were living in informal settlements, with support to find new homes.

At the height of the conflict in the summer of 2014, over 500,000 Palestinians were displaced from their homes. Approximately 108,000 Palestinians remain homeless. UNOPS is working with UN agencies and government partners to respond to residents’ needs.

Throughout 2015, we will be exploring some of our past achievements. This includes our five-year monitoring mission of Mount Nyiragongo, one of Africa’s most active volcanoes, which holds the world’s largest lava lake.

UNOPS has completed its fifth annual inventory of greenhouse gas emissions, reporting a reduction in emissions from the previous year.

To mark World Health Day 2015, we take a look at some of the valuable health-related projects that UNOPS has recently been engaged in as part of its core mission: serving people in need.

Resilience has been placed firmly at the heart of the development agenda, following the adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 at this week’s World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), held in Sendai, Japan.

UNOPS helps partners to design, construct, rehabilitate and maintain infrastructure in very challenging environments. Whether building a road or designing a bridge, our highly skilled engineers are central to the success of UNOPS infrastructure projects.

The Darfur Urban Water Supply Project has helped improve the availability of clean water for over 240,000 people in four state capitals in western Sudan.

In a remote area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), 1,200 kilometres from the capital Kinshasa, 12 bridges have helped open access to local markets, benefitting some 340,000 people.