Location or economic resources often limit educational opportunities. A scholarship programme is helping change that for students in the Eastern Partnership countries.

Access: That one word means a lot when it’s no longer possible.

Decades of instability have caused untold suffering for people across the Central African Republic. In the first of a three-part series, we explore how a cash transfer programme is helping to improve living conditions and reduce poverty.

Decades of instability have caused untold suffering for people across the Central African Republic. In the second of a three-part series, we explore how improving infrastructure is helping connect communities.

Four hours northwest of Guatemala City, amid the Western Highlands and at the foot of the Santa María volcano, lies the country’s second largest city Quetzaltenango – or as it is more commonly known, Xela, derived from its old Mayan name, Xelajú.

How fighting corruption and strengthening procurement capacities is bringing improved public healthcare for millions of people across Guatemala – and reaching those that need it most.

While the people of Guatemala have universal access to healthcare, needs are not always met. Guatemala’s public healthcare system is challenged with limited resources, an increasing number of patients, high medical and treatment costs, and poor infrastructure.

Luisa Esperanza Ordóñez Gómez lives in the small town of Cipresales, located two hours from the city of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala with her parents, grandparents and other relatives. The Ordóñez family belongs to the Mam indigenous community – a Mayan group that lives in southeastern Mexico and Guatemala.

Helping ensure essential goods continued to flow into Yemen during the humanitarian crisis.

New quality infrastructure in Kosovo is helping to connect people throughout the Western Balkans – fostering economic development, and supporting regional cooperation, peace and stability.​​

How UNOPS made destroying Syria’s high-grade chemical weapons, in record time, a reality.

Thousands of Rohingya refugees continue to need life-saving assistance. Here’s how organizations are working together in Bangladesh to provide it.