Twenty new buildings in rural parts of the country will help improve security and access to justice for poor and marginalized people.

The monsoon season brings torrential rainfall to Mannar Island, in north-west Sri Lanka. This meant bad news for over 30,000 people who live there. Not anymore.

A $3.1 million investment from Myanmar’s first 4G network aims to combat high maternal and child mortality rates among the country’s rural and peri-urban communities

This year’s International Youth Day focuses on the leading role of young people in ensuring poverty eradication and achieving sustainable development through consumption and production.

Kattankudy in the Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka faced overwhelming amounts of garbage and no place to dispose of it. With EU funding, UNOPS is implementing a sustainable waste management programme benefitting 80,000 residents.

“My life has been very gloomy and cold, but I know my sun will shine.” – Yama Tamang, survivor of the Nepal earthquake.

About 15,000 Afghans are set to benefit from more reliable and better access to electricity under a $5 million renewable energy project funded by the Government of Japan.

Explosive hazards prevent children from going to school, inhibit farmers from working the land and block the safe delivery of humanitarian assistance. Each year they kill or injure thousands of people around the world.

Years of being hunted by poachers and a decreasing habitat due to deforestation threaten the survival of Royal Bengal tigers. Here’s how one man's passion for protecting them is helping to save them.

In Maldives, fresh groundwater resources are scarce. Rivers and lakes are almost non-existent. More than 6,000 people living on the islands of Mahibadhoo, Ihavandhoo and Gadhdhoo couldn’t access safe drinking water, especially in the dry season.

The emergence of parasite resistance to artemisinin drugs and their derivatives in five countries of the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) is seriously threatening the control and elimination of malaria globally. ​​​