Sugarloaf Mountain, located on the outskirts of Sierra Leone’s capital of Freetown, collapsed after days of torrential rain. The survivors of the disaster continue to rebuild.

A new project will see the renovation of 100 houses in the camp.

Grete Faremo joins UN Women’s Executive Director at a side-event on the margins of the 63rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women.

Remarks by Grete Faremo, Under-Secretary-General and UNOPS Executive Director at the UN Women side-event 13 March 2019, 15.00-16.15, UN Headquarters, Conference Room 11, New York

Grete Faremo speaks at opening day of the 63rd Session on the Commission of the Status of Women in New York.

‘sustainABLE’ will provide project partners, developers and others working in the development sector with practical actions that will help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Statement by Grete Faremo, Under-Secretary-General and UNOPS Executive Director 11 March 2019, UN Headquarters, Conference Room 12, New York

Opening remarks by Grete Faremo, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UNOPS at the Gender Dialogues series, Denmark, 1 March 2019

With the adoption of Sustainable Development Goal 5 by the UN General Assembly in 2015, gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls has achieved an unprecedented place at the centre of the global Agenda 2030.

Under a new agreement, UNOPS will construct a bridge in the Arua District of Uganda, with $1.7 million in funding from the government of Japan.

The Commission on the Status of Women is the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women. UNOPS Executive Director Grete Faremo is attending two side events: One focused on infrastructure, sustainable development and the advancement of women on 11 March and one on social protection, public services and sustainable infrastructure on 13 March. Sanjay Mathur, Director for UNOPS Asia Region, will also participate in a side event on gender sensitive infrastructure in Asia and the Pacific on 22 March.

The Gender Dialogues aims to address the unfinished business of achieving gender parity. UNOPS will co-host the first of three events at UN City, in collaboration with the Embassies of Australia, Ireland and Norway in Denmark. UNOPS Executive Director Grete Faremo is delivering the opening remarks at the event.