Around the world, innovative approaches are being developed to support humanitarian aid and drive sustainable development.

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.

Tuberculosis remains the world’s leading infectious disease killer. This preventable and curable illness claims three lives every minute.*

Speech by Grete Faremo, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UNOPS, at the ​Public Private Partnership for Small Islands ​(P3a) conference, Aruba, 22 - 24 March 2016

UNOPS and Oxford University are working together to support long-term national infrastructure planning for governments.

​Speech by Grete Faremo, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UNOPS, delivered at the session "17 Global Goals - a wealth of opportunity", Copenhagen, 18 March 2016

South Sudan is dying while waiting for peace

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.

Heavy flooding in North Darfur devastated the area, impacting local health and educational services.

The Government of Japan has announced two new projects to support the response to internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Iraq.

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.

Through ongoing conflict in the region, reliable access to safe, clean drinking water has long been an issue for local communities.