Participants will assess efforts undertaken, as well as opportunities to strengthen the UN’s work on peacebuilding and sustaining peace. UNOPS Executive Director Grete Faremo will attend.

The importance of home-grown leadership in international development shouldn’t be underestimated. Here’s why.

A handover ceremony was held 21 March 2018 to mark the completion of a project designed to improve the impact and effectiveness of community police in newly liberated areas in Iraq.

The new agreement between USAID and UNOPS represents a commitment to a stronger working relationship between the two organizations.

Participants will discuss how to improve private sector contributions to the 2030 Agenda and strengthen partnerships. UNOPS Head of Global Innovation and Technology Jonas Svensson will participate in a panel discussion on innovation.

The event will explore new ways to address the critical gap in financing for national non-communicable disease responses. UNOPS Partnerships and Liaison Group Director Nikolaj Gilbert will give a keynote address.

A Memorandum of Understanding between the two organizations was signed in New York

Wherever you go, water is life, yet for many Small Island Developing States fresh water resources are often scarce and poorly managed.

Access to clean water can have a big impact on children’s education. They are less likely to get sick, which means fewer days off school and more time spent learning. The students at Derniere Riviere Combined School in Saint Lucia have a lot to say about the importance of clean water.  

The side event “What do you see? Insight to gender mainstreaming in infrastructure” included high-level speakers from Finland, Sri Lanka and Sweden, as well as McKinsey.

UNOPS partners with mobile telecommunications operator Ooredoo to improve access to health services across the country.

The Government of Japan announced a new assistance package from its supplementary budget of 2017 to assist the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.